The AP has obtained reports on a partial draft of the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, revealing heretofore unmentioned plans to provide technical aid to Iran’s civilian nuclear program as part of the terms of the final pact.
The technical cooperation is far more substantial than previously mentioned, and includes pledges to supply Western-made light-water nuclear reactors to Iran to replace the planned heavy-water site at Arak, which has been the source of much dispute.
The Arak reactor was meant to replace the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR), a nearly 50-year-old US built light-water reactor which has been Iran’s sole source of medical isotopes. The TRR itself had been the source of Western complaints since Iran was enriching uranium to 20% to produce fuel rods for it. The Arak reactor would’ve used unenriched uranium, but concerns about plutonium byproducts sparked further Western complaints.
Though another light-water reactor would once again mean Iran needs enriched uranium, the draft suggests that Iran would also be provided with fuel rods for it, meaning they wouldn’t actually have to enrich the uranium for the new reactors themselves.
As a deal that would resolve some of the major talking points for the pro-war crowd, hawkish officials, notably Rep. Ed Royce (R – CA) were angrily condemning the plans as unacceptable, and saying Congress will never stand for it.
Just think, years ago, Iran paid France millions of dollars to build an enrichment and reprocessing plant in FRANCE all those years ago and what did France do, it reneged on the deal, instead of supplying the needed isotopes for the Medical reactor it bowed to US pressure and not only took the money for the processing plant, it also refused to give the yellow cake it sent them for processing and the money they paid for it back! The reality is that Iran wouldn't have had processing capability but for the US and Frances Complicity in refusing to abide by signed contracts!
Iran then said we cannot trust you, so we will build our own, we will control the supply chain from go to woe, just think we would have NONE of this problem at all, if the US and France didn't try to be clever, Iran would have nuclear power and literally there would be NO nuclear waste to convert, no enrichment cycle nothing it would all be done by France that was Iran's ORIGINAL preferred model!
And pigs might fly! The French were supposed to supply enriched uranium to Iran but didn't. The Americans could have continued to fuel the TRR but didn't. The United States offered that Russia would fabricate fuel rods for the TRR if all Iran's enriched uranium was sent abroad, then reneged on the agreement after Turkey and Brazil had persuaded Iran to accept it. The United States has a more than 200 year history of making and breaking treaties when it suits it. Should anyone let alone Iran, the subject of repeated regime change actions, trust them?