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  • Iran expects the UN to hold off on new sanctions for now

    07/06/2007 10:12:15 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 4 replies · 250+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 7/6/07 | Michael Adler
    VIENNA (AFP) - Iran expects the United Nations to hold off on new sanctions while Tehran pursues new talks with the UN atomic agency about its disputed nuclear work, a senior Iranian official said Friday. "Of course this is definitely the expectation because otherwise, as I've said, this positive, constructive environment will be in jeopardy and this whole peace might collapse," Iranian ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh told AFP in an interview. The UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency's deputy director general for safeguards Olli Heinonen will visit Tehran next week to draw up a plan to resolve "outstanding issues" in...
  • CA: Legislative Democrats: Hold off on warfare

    03/05/2003 9:18:39 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 121+ views
    Sac Bee ^ | 3/5/03 | Jim Sanders
    <p>More than 20 Democrats in the Legislature joined together on Tuesday at the All Wars Memorial in Capitol Park to oppose immediate military action against Iraq.</p> <p>Fifty-two California Democratic legislators formally declared their opposition Tuesday to an immediate war against Iraq, marking perhaps the largest protest of its kind among state legislatures nationwide.</p>