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Iran Focus

The IAEA, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, is due to report at the end of the month on whether Iran is complying with U.N. demands that it halt uranium enrichment.

Thinkpad Vienna, Nov. 24 - Several thousand Iranian exiles braved the winter snow and rallied on Thursday outside the headquarters of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog in Vienna to call for the immediate referral of Tehran's suspected atomic weapons file to the Security Council to face economic sanctions and a comprehensive oil embargo.

Washington and its EU allies say it is time the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency sent Iran's case to the U.N. Security Council, which could eventually decide to impose sanctions on Iran. China has demurred, saying it would like talks between Iran and the EU trio to resume, but has not said it will try to block any move to report Iran to the Council. Russia, while sharing China's opposition to U.N. sanctions on Iran, has moved closer to the West's view on referral.

Microsoft Organisers estimated the banner-waving crowd at more than 2,500, as representatives of member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) board of governors met in a behind-closed-doors session to discuss how to tackle the Islamic Republic's nuclear threat.

- represented by Britain, - has called a meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday to warn Iran against restarting sensitive nuclear work. The IAEA can refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.

Laptop Computers Several speakers addressed the rally including Austrian Member of the European Parliament Karin Resetarits.

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 25 (Reuters) U.N. chief Kofi Annan said on Wednesday he doubted that a U.N. nuclear watchdog would be able to come to a decision by early February on referring Iran to the Security Council over its nuclear programme. Annan told Reuters that Mohamed ElBaradei, based International Atomic Energy Agency, did not expect to have a report on Iran ready until the end of February, for the IAEA's regular board meeting in March.

Laptop Computer Two former Iranian nuclear scientists who defected from Tehran several years ago, Alireza Assar and Manouchehr Fakhimi, warned the international community in their addresses during the rally that the world faced a serious threat of being confronted with a nuclear-armed Iran.

Washington says Tehran has been using a civilian nuclear program as cover for efforts to get atomic weapons. Iran denies the accusation. The United States has backed diplomatic efforts by Britain, France and Germany to defuse the standoff, but has increasingly warned that it may be time for the UN Security Council to consider sanctions against Iran. "The international community is growing more and more concerned about Iran's refusal to come back to the talks, " McClellan said, pointing to a recent meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog agency.

Desktop Computer Demonstrators holding up banners reading, "Refer mullahs' nuclear file to UN Security Council" and "No deals with the mullahs, no nukes for the mullahs", chanted slogans against Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "Ahmadinejad is a terrorist", they chanted.

Notebooks A statement was also read out to applause on behalf of Maryam Rajavi, whose National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) was the first to blew the whistle on Iran's clandestine nuclear program in August 2002, in which she urged the IAEA board of governors to refer the clerical establishment nuclear dossier to the Security Council and expel it from international bodies before it was too late.

Lenovo A giant replica missile with the logo of the Islamic Republic was paraded on the back of a truck at the demonstration.

Hard Drive Haleh Farahani, a 36-year-old mother of two, said that she had travelled from Germany to register her voice against the reported decision by the European Union to refrain from its demand that Tehran be hauled before the UN for recommencing uranium enrichment activities at one of its sites. "Iranian people are against nuclear weapons but the regime wants to make them to ensure that it stays in power and to threaten the whole world".

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