NCRI – The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany plan to meet in April to discuss incentives previously offered to Iranian regime on its nuclear program, U.S. officials said on Monday.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack couldn't give a date and location for the meeting of the senior diplomats from Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany.
"I can only narrow it down to mid-April. We're going to wait, we're going to let our hosts announce the meeting," McCormack said without saying who will host the talks involving Daniel Fried, the U.S. acting undersecretary of state for political affairs.
The Security Council has imposed three rounds of sanctions on Iranian regime for defying council demands that it suspend its uranium enrichment program, which could be used to make atomic weapons.
On Saturday, Gholamhossein Elham, Ahmandinjad's spokesman said Iranian regime would press ahead with plans to expand its nuclear program. He also rejected any idea of halting the nuclear program in return for any new trade, technology and other benefits offered by world powers.
On Thursday, diplomats in Vienna said Tehran was installing advanced centrifuges in Natanz Site, its main uranium enrichment facility.
Western diplomats with access to intelligence said after an installation pause of several months in Natanz, Iran regime has now introduced more than 300 more centrifuges, some of them improved versions and some the earlier model, the report added.
The Natanz nuclear site is one of the two secret Iranian regime's nuclear sites that were revealed by the Iranian Resistance in August 2002. The revelations triggered International Atomic Energy Agency inspections of the Iranian regime's secret nuclear program.
On Friday, Iranian regime's president said in an interview with Kyodo News that he would reject any new incentives offered by world powers in return for suspending nuclear program.
"This is a non-negotiable subject," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted by Japan's Kyodo News when asked if such incentives carry conditions demanding that Iran suspend its enrichment activities.
On February 24, quoting Ahamadinejad’s remarks, the official news agency IRNA said, “The nuclear crisis in its new form began in the beginning of the summer of 2002, when the Monafeqin [the term used by the Iranian regime to describe the people's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)], published a report on Natanz and Arak nuclear sites. The International Atomic Energy Agency got involved… and resolutions were adopted one after the other.”
—–
The report is partly based on wire news dispatches
