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NEW YORK-World powers met Friday to discuss a third U.N. Security Council resolution imposing additional sanctions against Iran for failing to suspend its uranium enrichment program.U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met her counterparts from the "P5 plus one" the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States) along with Germany.Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief who has held nuclear talks with Iran, also joined the meeting.The Security Council has repeatedly demanded that Iran suspend enrichment of uranium and has imposed limited sanctions on Tehran for refusing to comply. The United States has been trying to cut Iran off from the international financial system and the European Union is weighing its own unilateral sanctions.The international community has failed to get Iran to take an offer of a package of economic incentives and better relations with the West in exchange for suspending its nuclear program.Friday's meeting comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and the West. In addition to increased U.S. rhetoric against Iran, France's foreign minister last week said the world should be prepared for a war with Iran as a worst-case scenario if Tehran developed a nuclear weapon.This week Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told world diplomats that an agreement reached last month between his country and the International Atomic Energy Agency over its disputed nuclear program has, in the Iranian view, settled the matter."Iran decided to pursue the issue through its appropriate, legal path, one that runs through the IAEA, and to disregard unlawful and political impositions by the arrogant powers," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly in New York. "I officially announce that in our option, the nuclear issue of Iraq is now closed and has turned into an ordinary agency matter."To read more go to:
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