IAEA Hopes to Rescue Third Party Enrichment Deal With Iran
Iran's 'Rejection' Apparently Greatly Exaggerated
The persistent reports of Iran’s final rejection of the draft third party enrichment proposal has been greatly exaggerated, it would seem, and officials are scrambling to put forth a last ditch effort to rescue the proposal.
The P5+1 is reportedly expressing disappointment that Iran hasn’t approved the deal yet, and IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei expressed hope that Iran would take a “minimum risk” in the interests of peace and still approve the deal.
At the same time ElBaradei is urging Western officials to hold off on their oft-threatened sanctions against Iran, saying there was still time to rescue the deal.
The nuclear deal has been hugely controversial inside Iran, with many officials expressing doubts about France’s involvement in the third party enrichment process. Iran has sought to alter the deal to a direct exchange, which has met with Western opposition.
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MvGuy
November 21st, 2009 at 5:19 am
O.K. O.K. So both sides are afraid of getting ripped , so let them make the exchange on the border with Turkey 50 or a 100 pounds at a time… What's the problem, unless ripping Iran off was the plan all along…!!!!!
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P. Nameth
November 21st, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Here's the deal. Iran already got screwed over by France in a previous deal and so it has very legitimate concerns on the subject. What is wrong with a straight exchange as proposed by Iran, if the West does not intend to hold back the uranium sent under the justification that they are preventing any future development in Iran. How come France who supplied Israel with uranium to set up its atomic plants wants to do harm again to Iran? If I were Iran I would categorically refuse to deal with the West until they agree to investigate Dimona and other installations in Israel, gave up manufacturing new atomic weapons (see articles in to-day's papers)
What it looks like that the West and the countries it pre-approves are allowed to make atomic bombs so that they could lord it over the rest of the world. Nice work if you can get it!!!