China, Russia Object to U.N. Statement to Iranians

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UNITED NATIONS -- China and Russia objected Tuesday to a tough U.N. Security Council statement backed by the United States, Britain and France calling for a report in two weeks on Iran's compliance with demands that it suspend uranium enrichment.

While the five veto-wielding council members are united against Iran developing nuclear weapons, they disagree on how to get Tehran to comply with demands by the U.N. nuclear watchdog to stop all enrichment and reprocessing and answer questions about its controversial nuclear program.

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China, Russia Object to U.N. Statement to Iranians

Uranium enrichment can be used either in the generation of electricity or to make nuclear weapons. Iran insists its program is to produce nucle...

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