Iranians and rice trade barbs.On April 25, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani Ali Ardashir Larijani (Persian: علی اردشیر لاریجانی; born 1958) is an Iranian politician, and a member of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran. , said that Iran would suspend its relations with the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency International Atomic Energy Agency: see Atomic Energy Agency, International. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) International organization officially founded in 1957 to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy. if the UN imposes sanctions on his country, reported Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse (AFP) French cooperative news agency. Based in Paris, it has roots in the Bureau Havas, created in 1832, which in 1835 became the Agence Havas, the world's first true news agency. . "If you decide to use sanctions against us, our relations with the agency will be suspended," stated Larijani. Speaking in Athens, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice retorted: "The Iranians can threaten, but they are deepening deep·en tr. & intr.v. deep·ened, deep·en·ing, deep·ens To make or become deep or deeper. Noun 1. deepening - a process of becoming deeper and more profound their own isolation. I would just say that when the international community speaks, and says that a member state must do something, then the international community has to be credible about that demand." |
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