DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - THE WEST/IRAN: SO WHICH IS?!? NO SUSPENSION?!? HINTS AT PARTIAL SUSPENSION?!?! OR IS IT TO GIVE FAKE HOPE TO GULLIBLE DIPLOMATS

Iran rules out halting nuclear enrichment

TEHRAN, May 30 Iran won't stop enriching uranium, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani said Wednesday on the eve of talks with the European Union.

"Suspension is not the right solution for solving Iran's nuclear issue," Larijani told reporters at Tehran ' s airport before flying to Madrid, where he is scheduled for two days of talks with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Alalam reported. However, Larijani said Tehran wants to resolve the standoff with the international community, but past attempts had been unacceptable to Iran, the Fars news agency said.

"If we take a look at the past, we will find out that some behaviors and negotiations have not been successful," he said. The meeting in Madrid will be the second meeting for Larijani and Solana in just over a month.

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Diplomats say Iran hinted at partial suspension of uranium enrichment
GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer

MADRID, Spain (AP) - Iran recently hinted at willingness to discuss a partial suspension of uranium enrichment, but the West stuck to its demand for a full halt and Tehran withdrew its idea for getting talks going in the dispute over its nuclear program, diplomats said Wednesday
With both sides back to their hard-line positions, talks scheduled Thursday between Iran's top nuclear negotiator and the European Union's senior foreign policy representative were unlikely to make substantial headway, the diplomats told The Associated Press.

Both Iran and the United States kept to their tough positions before the talks.

''Suspension is not the right solution for solving Iran's nuclear issue,'' the Iranian state news agency quoted envoy Ali Larijani as saying before leaving for Spain.

Later, on arrival in Madrid, he obliquely blamed the impasse on the insistence of the U.S. and its Western allies that Tehran freeze all enrichment, referring to ''some mischievous moves by some countries.''

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, meanwhile, said the world should not soften demands that Iran halt all disputed nuclear work. ''That would be a very big mistake,'' she said.

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