【双语新闻】布什总统望外交解决伊朗争端 (President Bush Wants to Settle Iran D

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星期一(041006)

布什总统望外交解决伊朗争端 (President Bush Wants to Settle Iran Dispute Diplomatically)

布什行政当局表示愿意通过外交手段解决伊朗的核危机，不过布什总统没有排除以军事行动作为一种手段。白宫发言人斯科特.麦克莱伦说，布什总统不排除任何可选用的手段，但是他说，最近有关空袭伊朗计划的两篇媒体报导基于他所称的外界专家“轻率的猜测”。

伊朗总统艾哈迈迪内贾德敦促伊朗人不要害怕，并指称美国开展“心理战”，其中包括纽约客杂志和华盛顿邮报的两篇报导。

华盛顿指称伊朗利用它的核计划掩盖开发原子弹的活动。伊朗否认这个说法。华盛顿邮报星期天援引痕7b任和前任的美国国防部官员说，作为以外交手段强迫伊朗终止其核燃料计划的一部份，五角大楼正研究军事干预的办法。报导还说，看来美国发动的任何攻击都不可能在短期内发生。

纽约客杂志的一篇援引未说明出处的消息来源的报导说，布什行政当局增加了在伊朗境内的秘密活动，同时还有可能对那里核设施进行空袭的计划。国际原子能机构总干事巴拉迪定于本星期前往讨论伊朗同国际原子能机构的合作。国际原子能机构核查人员星期五抵达伊朗，视察了引起争议的伊斯法罕铀转换设施。访问日程还包括访问纳坦兹的浓缩铀设施。

预计这个联合国机构将于4月之前就伊朗执行核协议的情况向联合国安理会提交报告。安理会3月底责令德黑兰停止浓缩铀活动。

The Bush administration says it wants to settle the Iranian nuclear crisis through diplomacy, although President Bush has not ruled out a military option.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan says President Bush is not taking any options off the table, but he said two recent media reports on plans for air strikes in Iran were based on what he called \"wild speculation\" by outside experts.

Iranian President Mamoud Ahmadinejad urged Iranians not to be afraid and accused the United States of waging \"psychologicial warfare\" that included the reports in the New Yorker magazine and the Washington Post newspaper.

Washington accuses Iran of using its nuclear program as a cover for developing an atomic bomb - a charge Tehran denies. The Washington Post Sunday quoted current and former U.S. defense officials as saying a Pentagon study of military options is part of a coercive diplomacy to get Iran to end its nuclear fuel program. The report also says no U.S. attack appears likely in the short term.

In a separate report citing unnamed sources, The New Yorker magazine says the Bush administration has increased clandestine activities inside Iran as well as planning for possible air strikes on nuclear facilities.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.), Mohamed ElBaradei, is due in Iran this week to discuss cooperation with his agency. I.A.E.A. inspectors arrived in Iran Friday and have visited Tehran's uranium conversion facility in Isfahan. A visit to the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz is also on the agenda.

The U.N. body is expected to provide a report to the U.N. Security Council by the end of this month on Iran's nuclear compliance. Late last month, the Council ordered Tehran to stop uranium enrichment.