ElBaradei Presses Iran to Accept Nuclear Proposal
Ahmadinejad Expresses Openness to Send Uranium Abroad
Outgoing International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei today urged the Iranian government to endorse the third party draft enrichment deal exactly as it is currently structured, cautioning that proposals which kept the uranium in Iranian territory would not be acceptable.
The comments seem to have been direct at those made by Iranian Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki, that Iran would not accept any deal which required it to send its 3.5 percent enriched uranium out of the country.
At the same time, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted today that Iran was not opposed in principle to sending its uranium abroad, and other officials have given indications that a deal which provided some sort of guarantee was all that was necessary.
ElBaradei mentioned a counter-proposal to put Iran’s low enriched uranium on an island in the Persian Gulf, still technically on Iranian soil but under IAEA control and in practice inaccessible to the rest of its civilian nuclear program. Still, ElBaradei says this deal would not be acceptable to Western nations.
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Baz
November 26th, 2009 at 4:55 am
so its clear, the west wants to steal all of irans uranium.
This is good news for the zionists in the US who are deperate to start a war with Iran
Sean
November 26th, 2009 at 10:37 am
If my comments have to be approved, even in AWdotC, then I am out of here.
Oldtimer
November 26th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
When will the IAEA send inspectors to Israel and demand Israel dismantle it's under the table nuclear facilities? Seems to me Iran signed and is abiding by the NPT. Israel did not, yet nothing is done about their illeagel operation. WHY??
andy
November 26th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
How come its okay for Israel to have nuclear weapons but not Iran? How come its okay for America to have them but not North Korea?
Baz
November 27th, 2009 at 12:32 am
because israel has 60+ spies in our congress posing as americans, numerous lobbying agencies to take care of those who are not spies and numerous more agencies to make sure anybody who criticises israel is deemed an antisemite, a child-molester, tax-evader or worst.
In shoirt, because we are all monkeys in our own cage and Israel is our handler