According to the US State Department, America will soon submit to Iran a new offer which would seek to eliminate the nation’s current need to produce medical isotopes domestically.
The exact details of the offer were not released yet, but State Dept. spokesman P.J. Crowley said the US would offer to “facilitate Iran’s procurement of medical isotopes from third countries.” The offer is expected to be submitted to the IAEA soon.
Iran has been producing medical isotopes in its Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) but is running out of the fuel rods for the reactor. With a third party enrichment deal looking remote, Iran has begun enriching uranium to 20 percent in an effort to produce its own TRR fuel.
Iran has only begun very modest amounts of enrichment to 20 percent, and has suggested they are open to stopping the enrichment at this level if they are able to obtain what they need internationally. Some 850,000 Iranians rely on the isotopes for nuclear medicine.
The US can't deliver any medical isotopes to Iran because there's a worldwide shortage. Iran has said it would not make its own NUCLEAR FUEL if it could obtain it internationally, not isotopes. More than half of the isotopes degrade before reaching their destination so it is more efficient for iran to make its own. Read IranAffairs.com to learn how the US is using the health of 850,000 Iranians for political purposes by preventing Iran from fueling its medical reactor — whcih the US helped Iran build.
Crowley further stated:
"They don’t trust the United States. And we have put forward what we think is a realistic, good faith proposal for the international community to provide for Iran’s legitimate needs for very specific purposes."
The Iranians disagreed with the details of the transfer of LEU, not the plan itself. The fact that the FedGov chose to make the haggling over the details of the transfer the basis for sabre-rattling and threats of more sanctions clearly shows that the Iranian government was right to distrust the West. Crowley dissembles when he claims that the FedGov only wants "confidence building." In fact, the use of that term is suspicious, because it reminds one of FedGov hostage negotiation tactics, wherein it is requested that the hostage-takers engage in "good faith measures" while the negotiators merely make promises they have no intention of keeping and assert innumerable reasons why things take so long to accomplish. It's all part of a strategy of attrition designed to wear down the victim before the shock troops make their move.