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EU warns Iran against unilateral nuclear moves amid huge opposition rally in Vienna

Thousands of supporters of the Iranian Resistance rally in Vienna
NCRI, Vienna: The European Union warned Iranian regime against making any "unilateral moves" to increase its atomic activities.

In the meantime thousands of supporting of the Iranian main opposition, National Council of Resistance (NCRI) and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) staged a huge rally in front of the IAEA headquarters in Vienna calling for referral of the Iranian regime’s nuclear file to the UN Security Council.
Demonstrators carried banners which read, "Mullahs are Terrorists," "Mullahs’ Nukes to U.N."
NCRI, Vienna: The European Union warned Iranian regime against making any "unilateral moves" to increase its atomic activities.
British ambassador Peter Jenkins told reporters the European Union has "acceded to the request of several board members" of the UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency "who have asked for more time for diplomatic dialogue on the future of mullahs’ nuclear program."
The IAEA’s board of governors was meeting in Vienna Thursday and expected to hold off on calling for Iran to be referred to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions for hiding sensitive nuclear activities in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
In the meantime thousands of supporting of the Iranian main opposition, National Council of Resistance (NCRI) and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) staged a huge rally in front of the IAEA headquarters in Vienna calling for referral of the Iranian regime’s nuclear file to the UN Security Council.
Demonstrators carried banners which read, "Mullahs are Terrorists," "Mullahs’ Nukes to U.N."
The board had in September found mullahs’ regime in non-compliance with the NPT and was meeting to review progress on the dossier since then.
Jenkins, who was speaking for the EU presidency at the IAEA board meeting, said Tehran should "seriously" consider a Russian compromise proposal that would allow it to enrich uranium in Russia.
But Jenkins warned fundamentalist regime that it needs "to implement the confidence-building measures" for which the IAEA has called, namely to cease uranium conversion work that is the first step in enriching uranium into what can be nuclear reactor fuel or atom bomb material.
He said the Iranian regime should "refrain from any further unilateral move which could aggravate the situation," a clear reference to it moving on to actual uranium enrichment.
Jenkins said in a speech to the board "that any resumption of enrichment related activities at Natanz would seriously aggravate the situation created by the resumption of activity at Isfahan," the conversion facility.
Jenkins said in his press comments that the Iran regime’s failing to fully cooperate with an IAEA investigation of its past and current nuclear activities "undermines its claim that its nuclear program is peaceful in nature."
Jenkins said the EU also "sees grounds for deep concern" that Tehran "has admitted to having in its possession a document which was supplied" by an international black market and which is a guide to making the explosive core of an atom bomb.
Jenkins said the opening for talks, and the IAEA’s holding off on referral, should not be misunderstood by clerics in Iran.
"Iran should not conclude that this window of opportunity will remain open in all circumstances," Jenkins said.