From The Guardian:

A senior Iranian envoy suggested Wednesday that Tehran’s partial yearlong freeze on uranium enrichment is about to end, shrugging off U.S. and European pressure to renounce the process and end fears that his country wants to make nuclear arms.

Both Washington and the European Union want a commitment from Iran to stop enrichment and have been working on a resolution to be adopted at an International Atomic Energy Agency meeting demanding that Tehran agree to such a freeze.

But they differ on the firmness of the wording of a resolution, with the United States seeking European support to have Iran hauled before the U.N. Security Council if it defies conditions meant to dispel suspicions about its nuclear agenda.

Hossein Mousavian, Iran’s chief envoy to the meeting, suggested Iran was not about to cave in to threats of Security Council action, which could lead to sanctions.

“I think one year is enough,’’ he told The Associated Press, when asked if his country would agree to extend a commitment to suspend enrichment that it made last October. Mousavian did not name a date for a resumption of enrichment, but suggested it could be “a few months’’ away.

In related news, the Israeli Air Force has okayed a request by some of its fighter pilots to paint “we’ve got your knishes right here, mullahs” on all their munitions.

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h/t scaramouche