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Analysts report on Non-Aligned summit in Iran

UN nuclear report wrongfoots Iran summit: analysts Google News 1 Sept 12, By Marc Burleigh (AFP) 1 Sept 12,  TEHRAN — Iran’s hopes of boosting its international prestige by hosting a Non-Aligned summit this week were tripped up by a critical new UN nuclear watchdog report, analysts said.

The event, however, “enabled Iran to show it still has friends and trade partners despite international efforts to isolate it,” one analyst, Dina Esfandiary of Britain’s International Institute for Strategic Studies, told AFP.

Iranian officials and state media had hailed the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit on Thursday and Friday, with its 120 member states, as a diplomatic coup over the United States and its Western allies which have imposed economic sanctions and been leaning on other nations to treat Iran as a pariah.

Smack in the middle of it though, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its latest report on Iran that recorded an increase in the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges.

And it said a clean-up at a suspect military base in Parchin had “hampered” IAEA inspectors’ ability to determine whether explosives tests for warheads had taken place.

That paired with UN chief Ban Ki-moon in Tehran telling summit delegates and Iranian leaders that they had to comply with IAEA and UN resolutions, or else Iran faced being excluded from the international community and even risked war from Israel or the United States……. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hKRKsJf37BgV-AiY8yb-kuadC2og?docId=CNG.b86ceb10fe79b0a989936925ba7b5be2.701

September 1, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general