According the haaretz.com China called for more diplomacy in Iran last week. China's UN ambassador Zhang Yesui said it was too early to contemplate new sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt sensitive nuclear fuel work, and called for more diplomacy. China and Russia have been more reluctant to impose sanctions on Iran than the other four powers.
While the hours and days slip by, the U.S. State Department called Iran's response to a proposal by six major powers to enrich uranium for a research reactor in Tehran was "inadequate.", and diplomats said Iran issued a formal response rejecting an international proposal that would have it ship abroad material it would need to make a nuclear warhead, Iran works.
Also, according jpost.com, Iran ordered attacks on a Israeli convoy on Monday. Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Muhammad Najjar vowed to take revenge on Israel over Ali-Muhammadi's assassination. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being behind the assassination, which he said had been carried out in "Zionist style."
The sources in Amman pointed out that the attack on the Israeli diplomatic convoy had been carried out in a way similar to the assault on the slain Iranian professor.
"We can see Iran's fingerprints on the roadside bombing,"the sources said.
"The investigation is continuing in various directions."
On Reuters:
Iran's defense minister warned on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic could strike back at Western warships in the Gulf if it were attacked, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
US spy agencies are updating intelligence on Iran amid growing evidence Tehran has pushed forward with nuclear weapons research but has yet to relaunch its bomb program in full, US officials said on Tuesday.(Reuters)
Analysts from across the US intelligence community have been finalizing a revised national intelligence estimate (NIE) that was expected to bring the United States more into line with its European allies about the state of Iran's nuclear program.
And hard on the heels of that Revelation comes this teaser from Yahoo News;
In a series of hearings before Congress, the Obama administration is trying to ease a jittery public's concerns about security, and answer challenges from Republicans who say the administration has not done enough to make the country safe
Well... talk's cheap... And our politos are good at it.
