VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Iran's vice president on Monday blasted the "absurdity" of moves toward referring his country to the U.N. Security Council for its nuclear activities but stopped short of announcing that Tehran had retaliated by resuming uranium conversion.

I wonder if China and Russia worked on them as well as the EU-3? Either that, or they were really hoping everyone would just believe their saber rattling. Either way, forceful and determined policy, based on set values may yet win the day. We’ll watch this one develop