With the June session of the International Atomic Energy Agency set to open next Monday to discuss, among other things, IEAE Director General Mohamed ElBaradei’s latest report on Iran’s nuclear activities, the Group of 8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany has issued a double-edged statement on the Iranian nuclear program. On the one hand, they implicitly acknowledged Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear activities by tempering their rhetoric and said, “International confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program would permit a completely new chapter to be opened in our relations with Iran not only in the nuclear but also more broadly in the political, economic and technological fields.” On the other hand, they noted that “Iran has so far failed to fulfill its obligations” under UN Security Council resolutions and urged Iran “to take the steps required by the international community, and made mandatory by these resolutions, to suspend all its enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, including research and development, and allow negotiations to begin.”