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By Paula Wolfson
Washington 2-343290
28 October 2007


The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency says there is still plenty of time to resolve the dispute surrounding Iran's nuclear program. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports Mohamed ElBaradei says diplomacy 1 is the only solution.


The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran does not currently have the know-how 2 to make a nuclear weapon. Mohamed ElBaradei says the goal is to prevent them from building one in the future.


"We are not talking about Iran having today a nuclear weapon. We are trying to make sure that the future intention of Iran is peaceful," he said.


During an appearance on CNN's Late Edition program, ElBaradei was asked if there is evidence a secret weapons-development program is underway in Iran.


"What we have seen in the past is certain procurement 3 that has not been reported to us. There are experiments. And that is where we are working now with Iran to clarify the past and the present. But I have not received any information that there is a complete active nuclear weapons program going on right now," said ElBaradei.


Iran maintains its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, and is designed to produce nuclear power. But the United States has warned it may be a cover for the production of nuclear weapons, and President Bush has said a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to World War III.


Speaking on the CBS television news program Face the Nation, the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, urged the White House to tone down its words.


"My belief is that we ought to dial down the rhetoric 4," he said. "We ought to make it clear that there is always a military option if Iran goes nuclear. But we ought to just speak more softly because these hot words that are coming out of the administration, this hot rhetoric plays right into the hands of fanatics 5 in Iran."


Levin went on to say that he supports the administration's decision to impose unilateral sanctions on Iran. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Republican on the Armed Services panel, says the president had no choice.


Graham told Face the Nation  that there is little stomach in some countries, such as Russia, for stepped up multi-lateral pressure on Tehran.


"The diplomatic efforts to control Iran need to continue. They need to be more robust 6, but we are seeing mixed signals," he said. "The U.N. is becoming ineffective when it comes to regulating rogue 7 regimes and Russia is sending all the wrong signals as far as I am concerned."


He said President Bush has not overstated the threat posed by a nuclear Iran. Graham said the president's actions are justified 8 because - in his words - time is running out.




n.外交;外交手腕,交际手腕
  • The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
  • This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。
n.知识;技术;诀窍
  • He hasn't got the know-how to run a farm.他没有经营农场的专业知识。
  • I don't have much know-how about engines.发动机方面的技术知识我知之甚少。
n.采购;获得
  • He is in charge of the procurement of materials.他负责物资的采购。
  • More and more,human food procurement came to have a dominant effect on their evolution.人类获取食物愈来愈显著地影响到人类的进化。
n.修辞学,浮夸之言语
  • Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗?
  • Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后,他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
狂热者,入迷者( fanatic的名词复数 )
  • The heathen temple was torn down by a crowd of religions fanatics. 异教徒的神殿被一群宗教狂热分子拆除了。
  • Placing nukes in the hands of baby-faced fanatics? 把核弹交给一些宗教狂热者手里?
adj.强壮的,强健的,粗野的,需要体力的,浓的
  • She is too tall and robust.她个子太高,身体太壮。
  • China wants to keep growth robust to reduce poverty and avoid job losses,AP commented.美联社评论道,中国希望保持经济强势增长,以减少贫困和失业状况。
n.流氓;v.游手好闲
  • The little rogue had his grandpa's glasses on.这淘气鬼带上了他祖父的眼镜。
  • They defined him as a rogue.他们确定他为骗子。
a.正当的,有理的
  • She felt fully justified in asking for her money back. 她认为有充分的理由要求退款。
  • The prisoner has certainly justified his claims by his actions. 那个囚犯确实已用自己的行动表明他的要求是正当的。
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agabus taiwanensis
approximation theory of function
areolar central choroiditis
Arhab
autoubiquitinate
availability checking
average sidereal day
backward resorption
be weak of brain
braking-time
C- birth
cab guide track
capital-punishment
Captain Planet
cie system
claw stop
clinohedrite
condylus occipitalis
crowd about
cumulative preferred stock
cut throat competition
Cymbidium paucifolium
designing institute
discharge box
discourseless
distichophyllum obtusifolium
English roses
eurhythmia
even maturing
extensional equality
Fakaofoan
family hylobatidaes
femoral truss
flat face pulley
floating fair ship
fowl pox virus
galiosin
granular snow
grass roots approach
groot karasberge (great karaz berg)
hilum pulmonis increment
hopefund
hydraulic inverted press
hypodiploid
ice-snow physics
ideal regenerative cycle
independence of the workload
infectious parasitic diseases distribution
is not good enough.
james earl carter jr.s
Jansenist
Judeo-Italian
kobbekaduwa
Korfmann power loader
lisdoonvarna
lovelies
melwells
microbial pharmacy
mossop
mountain xerophytes
mycobacteriaceaes
nonexploding
OTDR
over-stretchings
overseas assets
parallel cline
pillar man
pillars of islam
platycarpum
point range
polycarps
prairie crabs
pseudofecal
pyosepremia
radiator tank
range of explosion
ratio-to-moving-average method
rectus abdominis
remi lingularis superior
renounced
ribbie
sarcomatous change
scumless
socialist principle
sprat
strain-gauge load cell
subvocalizations
supernidation
supply service
Testudinellidae
thaxton
third quarter of the moon
trechispora farinacea
upper chromosphere
Usuyong
venoming
W. B. Yeats
welfare
wheelback
Whitehouse
wide-scope
yes-no question