It would be the dumbest thing those clowns in DC would ever do, and what is more frightening is they are truly dumb enough to do it.~kmw
By Edmund Blair
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran threatened on Tuesday to attack Israel in response to any "evil" act by the United States and said it had enriched uranium to a level close to the maximum compatible with civilian use in power stations.
The defiant statements were issued shortly before world powers met in Paris late on Tuesday to plan their next moves after Tehran rejected a U.N. call to halt uranium enrichment.
Senior officials from the U.N. Security Council's permanent members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany discussed how to curb an Iranian program that Western nations say conceals a drive for atomic warheads.
"The participants discussed the steps to come in the United Nations Security Council," a French Foreign Ministry statement said after the dinner.
"The three European political directors presented the broad lines of a draft resolution aimed at giving mandatory force to the IAEA's (U.N. nuclear watchdog) demands, in particular those which deal with the suspension of activities linked to the enrichment and reprocessing of uranium."
Iran refuses to back down from what it calls its right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.
Driving home that message, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, said his country had now succeeded in purifying uranium to 4.8 percent, at the top end of the 3 to 5 percent range for fuel used in nuclear power plants.
"Enrichment above 5 percent is not on Iran's agenda," Aghazadeh told the students' ISNA news agency.
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