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Western sanctions targeting sectors from banking to trade and energy are aimed at forcing Iran's leaders to comply with their international obligations on nuclear activities.

What was striking to several American experts interviewed Tuesday was that Iran's threats seemed to be drawn from the strategy that North Korea pursued three years ago, when it was confronted by American allegations that it had started a second, clandestine nuclear program to evade a freeze on nuclear activities that it had negotiated with the Clinton administration in 1994.

Most observers expect that an agreement would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium to five per cent, the level necessary to fuel a power plant, while disabling plutonium facilities, limiting the number and the type of uranium centrifuges, and imposing intrusive inspections on nuclear activities to insure that they are not turned to military use.

Mr. Bush's real motivation for resisting bilateral talks, his aides say, is that he fears that Asian nations will press the United States to reach some kind of deal similar to the one the Clinton administration signed -- a "freeze" on nuclear activity in return for aid.

A freeze on nuclear activity, if it holds, could significantly ease anxieties over North Korea's behavior at a time when the Obama administration, in an election year, is focused on halting Iran's nuclear program and reducing the possibility that Israel could attack Iran.

An interim deal agreed late last year gave Iran some relief from sanctions in return for curbs on nuclear activity.

U.S. Rep. Ed Royce of Fullerton, chairman of the house Foreign Affairs Committee, said he is worried that the deal might curb Iran's capacity to quickly build a nuclear weapon but leave intact its ability to gradually work toward a nuclear weapon beyond the 10-year limit on nuclear activity that the final deal is expected to call for.

Although details of the suggested deal have not been disclosed, it is thought to offer Iran a gradual easing of sanctions in return for a freeze on expansion of nuclear activities.

A6 Iran Vows to Defy U.N. Iran vowed to defy any United Nations Security Council resolution on its nuclear activities on the eve of a major report by atomic inspectors on the status of Tehran's nuclear program.

PAGE A16 Iran Says It Will Defy U.N. Iran vowed to defy any United Nations Security Council resolution on its nuclear activities on the eve of a major report by atomic inspectors on the status of the nation's nuclear program.

The deal centres on Tehran's acceptance of strict limits on its nuclear activities for 10 years.