Iran Offers New Uranium Exchange Proposal
Iranians 'Ready' to Deliver 1.2 Tons of Low Enriched Uranium
Iran has reportedly submitted a new proposal for a third party enrichment deal with the West, revising their most recent offer to a “three phase” exchange to an immediate and simultaneous exchange.
The exchange would be an enormous one, with Iran sending 1.2 tons of its low-enriched uranium (approximately 60 percent of its overall stockpile) abroad in return for 120 kg of 20 percent enriched uranium.
Iran needs to 20 percent enriched uranium for its Tehran Research Reactor, a US-built reactor which produces medical isotopes. Iran has been running out of fuel for the reactor, and so far its attempts to produce its own 20 percent enriched uranium have been slow going, to say the least.
The vast majority of Iran’s enrichment program is aimed at producing 3.5 percent enriched uranium, for use in its nuclear power plant, and Iran has offered to abandon all enrichment above that level if it can find a source for the research reactor fuel abroad.
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Amir Goy
March 18th, 2010 at 7:54 am
So what? We can almost surely expect the Zionist entity to instruct their poodle, the US…to ignore the proposal.
epppie
March 18th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
This is a reasonable offer, but it will be condemned viciously by an Obama White House, eager for a distraction while it surreptitiously wipes Netanyahu's spit off its face.
Montaigne
March 18th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Yes, it will probably be ignored completely as if it never existed. What one wants is solely Iran to refuse to abndon any action that eventually might lead someome in the universe to suspect, they had anything on their minds besides obedience and submission. With such a refusal, no matter how theoretic or implausible the conjecture was, the BLIETZKRIEG could haapily start as planned.