2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 6, 2006 NATION/WORLD U. N. council split on Iran China and Russia deadlocked with U.S., France and Britain UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Now that the U.N. atomic watchdog agen- cy has agreed to report Iran to the Security Council, diplomats have vastly different notions about how the body should be involved in nego- tiations to make sure Iran is not try- ing to develop a nuclear weapon. The five permanent council mem- bers are split, with the United States, Britain and France hoping to pres- sure Iran into backing down with the ultimate threat of sanctions. However, China and Russia do not want to incite Tehran and would prefer that the council play a limit- ed role. The Iranian allies want the International Atomic Energy Agen- cy to keep the lead in handling Iran. The Iranian government yesterday ended all voluntary cooperation with the IAEA, saying it would start ura- nium enrichment and reject surprise inspections of its facilities. Ura- nium enriched to a low degree can be used for nuclear reactors, while highly enriched uranium is suitable for warheads. However, in an apparent reversal, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said the government was open to negotiations on Moscow's proposal that Iran shift its plan for large-scale enrichment to Russian territory in an effort to allay suspi- cions. A day earlier, an Iran repre- sentative at the IAEA meeting said that proposal was "dead." For the U.S.-led faction, the IAEA's decision Saturday to report Iran represented a great success. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton had pushed for Iran to be brought before the council since his days as U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security in 2001-2005. "It inevitably changes the politi- cal dynamic when their nuclear weapons program has been consid- ered in the Security Council, which is charged with the maintenance of international peace and security by the U.N. charter, rather than in a specific agency of the U.N. system," Bolton said Friday. "The Iranians know full well what they're doing, which is trying to acquire a nuclear weapons capabil- ity, and I understand why they don't want people talking about it in the full light of day." In recent days, the diplomatic debate at the United Nations on the issue has focused on two words - "reporting" Iran to the council or "referring" it. The distinction reflects a funda- mental difference in view. The Rus- sians and Chinese do not mind if the council is informed of the IAEA's dealings with Iran, but they do not want the IAEA to "refer" Iran to the council. That, they believe, would give the impression that the IAEA was washing its hands of Iran and asking the council to take the lead. t6 NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD BEIRUT, Lebanon Angry mobs protest political cartoons Muslim rage over caricatures of the prophet Muhammad grew increasingly violent yesterday as thousands of rampaging protesters - undaunted by tear gas and water cannons - torched the Danish mission and ransacked a Christian neighborhood. At least one person reportedly died and about 200 were detained, officials said. Muslim clerics denounced the violence, with some wading into the mobs trying to stop them. Copenhagen ordered Danes to leave the country or stay indoors in the second day of attacks on its diplomatic outposts in the Middle East. In Beirut, a day after violent protests in neighboring Syria, the thousands- strong crowd broke through a cordon of troops and police that had encircled the embassy. Security forces fired tear gas and loosed their weapons into the air to stop the onslaught. The protesters, armed with stones and sticks, seized fire engines, overturned police vehicles and garbage containers for use as barricades, damaged cars and threw stones at a Maronite Catholic church in the wealthy Ashrafieh area - a Christian neighbor- hood where the Danish Embassy is located. GASVILLE, Ark. Hate crime suspect killed in police shootout 6 _P PHOTO Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki speaks with media yester- day during a press conference in Tehran, Iran. "We and China can accept inform- ing of the Security Council, which is quite normal," Russia's U.N. Ambas- sador Andrey Denisov said. "That is the right of the Security Council to get any information it needs. But not referral, not official submitting, not handing it to the Security Council." The debate is so important in part because the Security Council is unique among U.N. institutions as the lone body with the power to impose sanctions or other punitive measures, deploy peacekeeping mis- sions, and grant or deny legitimacy to military action. And though its resolutions some- times go ignored or unheeded, there is also a symbolic shaming that goes along with bringing a country before a body whose mandate is to maintain international peace and security. In Iran's case, the council's options include issuing a public statement without imposing any action or adopt- ing a resolution demanding Iran stop its activities and threatening punish- ment if it does not. The punishment could include an oil embargo, asset freeze and travel ban. Standing in the way of any such action is China, which has been blunt about its distaste for punitive measures. "I think, as a matter of principle, China never supports sanctions as a way of exercising pressure because it is always the people that would be hurt," China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya said. Bush budget favors defense The teenager suspected in a hatchet and gun attack inside a New England gay bar and in the killing of a policeman died yesterday after being wounded in a shootout with Arkansas officers. Authorities believe he also killed a female acquaintance he had picked up while driving through West Virginia. Jacob Robida,18, died at Cox-South Hospital in Springfield, Mo., hospital spokes- man Randy Berger said. Investigators said the high school dropout from New Bedford, Mass., had dabbled in Nazism, and police there said the attack that injured three men, one critically, at the Puzzles Lounge on Thursday was a hate crime. New Bedford police said yesterday they were still trying to determine what motivated Robida and if he had any help. WASHINGTON Specter critcizes rationale for spying Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has not adequately justified why the Bush administration failed to seek court approval for domestic surveil- lance, said the senator in charge of a hearing today on the program. Sen. Arlen Specter said yesterday he believes that President Bush violat- ed a 1978 law specifically calling for a secret court to consider and approve such monitoring. The Pennsylvania Republican branded Gonzales' expla- nations to date as "strained and unrealistic." The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, predicted that the committee would have to subpoena the administration to obtain internal documents that lay out the legal basis for the program. Justice Department officials have declined, citing in part the confi- dential nature of legal communications. SAFAGA, Egypt Ferry passengers' families blame government Family members of passengers on a ferry that sank in the Red Sea protested yesterday as they waited in vain for news of their loved ones, accusing Egypt's government of mishandling the rescue after the ship went down with more than 1,400 people on board. Only a handful more passengers were pulled from the sea, dashing hopes for some 800 people missing and feared dead. Egyptian officials said the captain was missing, and some survivors alleged he had jumped into one of the first lifeboats out rather than stay with the crippled ferry. A law- maker said ships operated by the same company had been involved in past tragedies. 6 ANN ARBOR REACHING OUT presents. 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At the same time, Bush's blueprint being submitted to Congress today proposes shrinking or eliminating 141 programs while achieving $36 billion in Medicare savings over the next five years. The plan for the budget year that begins Oct. 1 lays out a path to achiev- ing two of the president's chief domestic goals: making permanent his first-term tax cuts, which are set to expire after 2010, and cutting the deficit in half by 2009, the year Bush will leave office. Details about the plan come from public statements, such as Bush's State of the Union address last week, and interviews with officials familiar with the budget proposal who spoke on con- dition of anonymity because they did not want to pre-empt the president's announcement today. The budget's arrival on Capitol Hill will set off months of intense debate, made even more conten- tious by congressional elections in November in which Democrats want to wrest congressional control from the Republicans. 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