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Iran's nuclear gambit - the basics - -

By Scott Peterson

from the May 09, 2006 edition

NUCLEAR RIGHTS: Women formed a human barrier at a nuclear facility in Isfahan, Iran, last year.
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Iran's nuclear gambit - the basics

By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to President Bush in a bid to ease global tensions, Iranian officials said Monday. This is the first such direct, high-level public communication between the two countries since Islamic revolutionaries took over the US Embassy in 1979.

The letter, which mentions Iran's contentious nuclear program, comes during a week when the US is trying to marshal key United Nations Security Council foreign ministers for a resolution that would compel Iran to suspend uranium enrichment - with the implied threat of sanctions and military enforcement. But Tehran says its program is legal and will continue.



	RESISTING PRESSURE: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will not back away from its nuclear program. AP



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Iran&apos;s nuclear gambit - the basics

Iran's nuclear gambit - the basics