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THE DAY RIDAY SEPTEMBER 1 2006 WORLD they refuse to be logical we will not be fearful and concerned IVe are able to protect our Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the threat of economic and political sanctions Iran Brushes Off Deadline or Halting Uranium Enrichment rom Al uranium at an Iranian nuclear facili ty Iran has argued in the past that such traces came from contamina tion on equipment from Pakistan but the inspectors said that these traces did not match samples provid ed by Pakistan But the inspectors drew no conclu sions writing that because Iran had denied them access to certain facili ties the inspection team was unable to make progress in its ef forts to verify the correctness and completeness of that it is running a peaceful nuclear program and not developing weapons On Thursday Muhammad Saeedi the deputy leader of Atomic Energy Organization told the offi cial Iranian news agency that Iran was not satisfied with the re but that it showed propaganda and politically motivat ed claims over nuclear pro gram are baseless and based on American As it was shaping up deadline day was likely to be less a climactic con clusion to years of conflict than an other step down a lengthy road that has seen Iran Western Europe and the United States battling over nuclear ambitions Even before the deadline the Unit ed States Britain rance and Ger many were working to build a con sensus for imposing strong sanc tions on Iran At the same time Iran ian officials worked feverishly to try to split the European coalition and to curry support from Russia and Chi na which have economic and energy interests in Iran and wield veto pow er on the Security Council In Germany which is not a perma nent member of the Security Coun cil the foreign minister rank Wal ter Steinmeier said in an interview in the daily Bild that Iran had no use for a uranium enrichment program other than to build a nuclear bomb must prevent an Iranian atomic he said in the interview rom Asia to Europe Iran tried to lobby influential capitals insisting it was pursuing only peaceful nuclear energy as it says is its right under the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty which it has signed Without publicly stating it Iran has hinted it is using access to its lucrative oil re serves as an incentive and threat in pressing its case After a brief visit to China on Tuesday an Iranian envoy arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday to promote its nuclear agenda with senior officials The backdrop to the discussion was persistent haggling with Japan over a multibillion dollar deal that would allow Tokyo to co explore Azaegan oil fields atmosphere is suitable for reaching a fair solution if the parties are willing to return to the negotiating deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said in a meeting with Japanese officials on Thursday accord ing to official news agency The West has taken two paths in trying to convince Iran to suspend enrichment: a package of economic incentives aimed at voluntary com pliance and sanctions On Aug 22 ATTENTION ADVERTISERS Due to the Labor Day holiday there will be early deadlines for submitting advertising reservations and copy for ads running in The Day on Mon Sept 4 th Tues Sept 5th and Wed Sept 6th The deadline will be riday Sept 1st 10 am WWPay Phone: 860701 4440 Iran gave its response to the incen tives package ignoring the demand that it suspend enrichment immedi ately and instead calling for more talks and clarification of what it called more than 50 in the incentives package Publicly Iranian officials have dis played confidence that the five per manent members of the Security Council would not agree at least in the near future on a package of tough sanctions They also publicly expressed indifference toward the pain that sanctions might cause they refuse to be logical we will not be fearful and Ah madinejad said at a news conference earlier in the week when he was asked about the threat of sanctions are able to protect our But the public pos ture was not unanimously accepted as some began to express anxiety about the drag that sanctions could impose on an already troubled econ omy official inflation rate is more than 10 percent and unemploy ment is widespread can face the country with serious economic said Mohammad All Najafi the for mer chief of the Planning and Man agement Organization in a daily newspaper Kargozaran by UN Security Council would be much more The nuclear conflict has often been portrayed by Iranian officials uWaary MARY ALTAER AP Nicky Pawah 4 left and Shabnam last name withheld 9 both from Virginia join other Iranian expatriates demonstrating on Thursday outside the United Nations headquarters in New York The group called for UN sanctions and a denunciation of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's belligerent policies and his nuclear weapons program Ahmadinejad defiantly refused to compromise as a deadline for Iran to stop enriching uranium arrived Thursday saying Tehran be bullied into giving up its right to nuclear technology as a beachhead against American in fluence in Iranian affairs Officials and former officials routinely say that if Iran gives in it would find it self pressured on many other fronts such as human rights and support for Hezbollah in Lebanon Mahmoud Vaezi a former deputy foreign minister said that the United States appeared to want a confronta tion while Europe was signaling it might want kind of win win The Europeans he said recog nize the value of offering both sides a deal of course if this kind of pressure from the US continues we must continue to resist and we can not draw he said Still for all the attention world leaders were focusing on the nuclear standoff people across Tehran seemed hardly moved by the loom ing deadline as they went about their business Many said it was not that they were unconcerned but that af ter living from one crisis to the next it was hard to fmd the energy to get excited public is indifferent about said Hassan ashami 70 who has sold 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