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Leaked drawing suggests Iran nuclear arms tests BY GEORGE JAHN
Associated Press
VIENNA — A drawing based on information from inside an Iranian military site shows an explosives containment chamber of the type needed for nuclear arms-related tests that U.N. inspectors suspect Tehran has conducted there. Iran denies such testing and has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of such a chamber. The computer-generated drawing was provided to The Associated Press by an official of a country tracking Iran’s nuclear program who said it proves the structure exists, despite Tehran’s refusal to acknowledge it. The image is based on information from a person who had seen the chamber at the Parchin military site, that official said, adding that going into detail would endanger the life of that informant. The official comes from an IAEA member country that is severely critical of Iran’s assertions that its nuclear activities are peaceful and asserts they are a springboard for making atomic arms. A former senior IAEA official said he believes the drawing is accurate. Olli Heinonen, until last year the U.N. nuclear agency’s deputy director general in charge of the Iran file, said it was “very similar” to a photo he recently saw that he believes to be the pressure chamber the IAEA suspects is at Parchin. He said even the colors of the computer-generated drawing matched that of the photo he had but declined to go into the origins of the photo to protect his source. After months of being rebuffed, IAEA and Iranian officials meet starting Monday in Vienna, and the IAEA will renew its attempt to gain access to the chamber, allegedly hidden in a building. Any evidence that Iran is hiding such an explosives containment tank, and details on how it functions, is significant for IAEA investigations. Beyond IAEA hopes of progress, that two-day meeting is being closely watched by six powers trying to persuade Iran to make nuclear concessions aimed at reducing fears that it may want to develop atomic arms as a mood-setter for May 23 talks between the six and Tehran in Baghdad. • TURN TO IRAN, 2A
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Greece leaders remain resistant to unity coalition BY RACHEL DONADIO AND NIKI KITSANTONIS
New York Times Service
ATHENS — With Greece hurtling toward new elections and a possible exit from the eurozone, President Karolos Papoulias prepared to make a last-ditch appeal for the country’s sharply divided political parties to form a unity government even as his hopes for success all but evaporated over the weekend. The leaders of Greece’s main political parties remained adamant in their positions on the
country’s debt agreement with foreign lenders, making a unity coalition appear impossible and new elections all but inevitable. Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left, refused on Sunday to take part in any government that would go through with the harsh austerity measures required in the debt deal, saying that Greek voters had resoundingly rejected austerity in elections on May 6. The parties that favor preserving the debt deal lack enough seats in Parliament to govern on their own, and
and party leaders was not expected until later in the evening. The Greek crisis was expected to dominate discussions in Brussels as European finance ministers were to meet on Monday. European leaders have warned that if Greece does not keep its promises, Europe will stop financing it, which would quickly lead to Greece’s defaulting on its debts and ending its use of the euro. In a sign of how far things have come, the once-taboo topic of • TURN TO GREECE, 2A
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SLIVERS OF HOPE IN A MEXICAN BORDER TOWN BY KARLA ZABLUDOVSKY
New York Times Service
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The crowd toasted with beers as first-time models strutted the makeshift catwalk in princess wedding dresses and Tarahumara Indian-inspired flower-print jumpers, all produced by local fashion designers bent on showing the world that their troubled border city is as much about hemlines as homicides. “The city has hope now,” said Eli Valle, one of the designers presenting her collection during
a fashion show in Ciudad Juarez last month. “Businesses are opening. People have shed their fear.” This is still a terribly violent city — at least eight people were killed over the weekend, including a man bound and left in the street with plastic bags covering his face. But overall, homicide rates have decreased significantly from their peak in 2010, and young people in particular are stepping out, joining art collectives around town and even partying after dark at reopened nightclubs.
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Papoulias spent Sunday trying to persuade several smaller parties to join them. On Monday, Tsipras said he objected to a meeting proposed by the president with “selected party leaders” from the conservative and Socialist pro-bailout parties and the head of a smaller moderate leftist party. He said he would meet with Papoulias on Monday only if he could do so on his own, or with the leaders of all the Greek parties, excluding the extreme-right Golden Dawn. The meeting between the Papoulias
Models backstage during a fashion show organized by local designers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Taliban leader sees decline of hard-liners KABUL — One of the most powerful men on the Taliban council, Agha Jan Motasim, nearly lost his life in a hail of bullets for advocating a negotiated settlement that would bring a broad-based government to his beleaguered homeland of Afghanistan. In an exclusive and rare interview by a member of the so-called Quetta Shura, Motasim told The Associated Press Sunday that a majority of Taliban wants a peace settlement and that there are only “a few” hard-liners in the movement. “There are two kinds of Taliban. The one type of Taliban who believes that the foreigners want to solve the problem but there is another group and they don’t believe, and they are thinking that the foreigners only want to fight,” he said by telephone. “I can tell you, though, that the majority of the Taliban and the Taliban leadership want a broad-based government for all Afghan people and an Islamic system like other Islamic countries.”
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The organizers of the fashion show, a group called Amor por Juarez (“Love for Juarez”) that has loosely based its efforts on the “I Love New York” campaign, are planning to open a clothing boutique in downtown Juarez next year. “It has a lot of value, in what it means to put it in a conflict zone, in an abandoned area, which is having a rebirth,” said Ricardo Fernandez, president of Amor por Juarez. Fashion shows and art classes alone will not save the city, of
New York Times Service
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But Motasim chastised the West, singling out the United States and Britain, for failing to bolster the moderates within the fundamentalist Islamic movement by refusing to recognize the Taliban as a political identity and backtracking on promises — all of which he said
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strengthens the hard-liners and weakens moderates like himself. He lamented Sunday’s assassination in Kabul of Arsala Rahmani, a member of the Afghan government-appointed peace council who • TURN TO TALIBAN, 2A
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Obama tried to limit risk on gay marriage declaration BY PETER BAKER AND RACHEL L. SWARNS
Former Taliban fighters hand over their weapons to Afghan police as part of a reconciliation process in Herat, Afghanistan.
course, and some skeptics call these efforts sugarcoating of the deeper, more troubling problems of police and judicial corruption and ineptitude, as well as a fragile economy that is debilitatingly dependent on large manufacturing plants known as maquiladoras. “Let’s go for the fundamental, the transcendental, but that’s a hard sell because it’s intangible, it’s longer term,” said Lucinda Vargas, board member of Plan Estrategico de Juarez, a civic group.
the pastors, regardless of their views on this issue, agreed to “work aggressively” on behalf of the president’s campaign. But not everyone. “Gay marriage is contrary to their understanding of Scripture,” Coates said. “There are people who are really wrestling with this.” In the hours following Obama’s politically charged announcement on Wednesday, the president and his team embarked on a quiet campaign to contain the possible damage among religious leaders and voters. He also reached out to one or more of the five spiritual leaders he calls regularly for religious guidance. The damage-control effort underscored the anxiety among Obama’s advisors about the consequences of the president’s revised position just months before what is expected to be a tight
WASHINGTON — About two hours after declaring his support for same-sex marriage last week, U.S. President Barack Obama gathered eight or so AfricanAmerican ministers on a conference call to explain himself. He had struggled with the decision, he said, but had come to believe it was the right one. The ministers, though, were not all as enthusiastic. A vocal few made it clear that the president’s stand on gay marriage might make it difficult for them to support his reelection. “They were wresting with their ability to get over his theological position,” said the Rev. Delman Coates, the pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Md., who was on the call. In the end, Coates, who supports civil marriages for gay men and lesbians, said that most of • TURN TO OBAMA, 2A
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