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'Freeze For Freeze: A U.S. European proposal may allow Tehran to continue with some uranium enrichment. Is this the way out of t

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‘Freeze For Freeze’

A U.S.-European proposal may allow Tehran to continue with some uranium enrichment. Is this the way out of the Iran nuke impasse?

Hirsh: Tehran Diary

Day One: On the Streets of Tehran

Day Two: The Bazaar's Message

Day Three: Telling Jokes in Iran

Day Four: Talking to Larijani

Day Five: The Question of Qom

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A New Way Out on Iran?

A U.S.-European proposal may allow Tehran to continue with some uranium enrichment. Is this the way out of the Iran nuke impasse?

Tehran Diary: The Question of Qom

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By Michael Hirsh

Updated: 2 hours, 25 minutes ago

June 28, 2007 - U.S. and European officials are still very angry at Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, for appearing to concede that Iran’s uranium-enrichment program is here to stay. “Every time he gets up there, he comes out with Iranian talking points,” snipes one Western diplomat. But NEWSWEEK has learned that the British recently drafted a proposal that shifts the West’s “red line” closer to El Baradei’s position as a way of breaking the stalemate in the talks.