Ahmadinejad: Iran Ready to Deal if Threats Stop
Iran Suggests New Openness to Enriched Uranium Deal
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggested that the Iranian government remains open to the third party uranium enrichment deal, potentially even the one that would have it deliver a massive portion of its low-enriched uranium to Russia
in one batch.
“From the outset, delivering 1,200 kilos of uranium was not a problem for us,” Ahmadinejad insisted. The sticking point, he says, is the repeated threats by the US and other Western nations.
Though the third party enrichment deal initially showed promise, internal debate in Iran slowed approval and the US reacted with repeated threats and a blanket condemnation in the IAEA, threatening new sanctions against the nation and potentially even a military strike.
Iran has been enriching uranium to 3.5% for use in its Bushehr nuclear power plant, but also seeks more highly enriched uranium for medical isotopes. The IAEA has repeatedly confirmed that none of Iran’s uranium is being diverted to any unapproved purpose.
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Robert Fisher
December 19th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
i hope that Iran will stick to it's guns, literally. Iran has done nothing wrong and stays within the given boundries as a signed member of the atomic treaty. unlike Israel who with financial aid from the USA is committing Genocide in Palestine. Israel is guilty of War crimes and being of German decent i once more can hold my head up high as the crimes of the USA and its Ally Israel have long outdone all fabrications about the last big one.
JohnDowser
December 19th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
If my children would be more cooperative every time I'd threaten to trash up their room, I certainly would consider it! But one will create children filled of hatred and distrust, near impossible to have a dialog with in the future.