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War of Words Continue Over Iran Nuke Program.

October 26th, 2009 • Richard Cochrane
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yellow-cakeIranian Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani on Saturday criticized Western countries for seeking “chicanery” on a possible deal to provide higher-level enriched uranium for Tehran, the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) as reported via ChinaView.cn

Representatives from Iran, the United States, Russia, France and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Vienna from Monday to Wednesday to discuss the nuclear-fuel supply for the research reactor in Tehran.

    The nuclear-fuel talks in Vienna concluded on Wednesday without a final agreement, but IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei presented a proposal for the four countries to mull, saying he hoped that all parties could make a firm response to his draft deal by Friday.

    The draft agreement calls for shipping most of Iran’s existing low-grade enriched uranium to Russia and France, where it would be processed into fuel rods with enriched uranium of a purity of 20 percent making it suitable for power plants but likely contaminating it for weapons uses.

    On Friday, the United States, Russia and France voiced their support for the proposal by ElBaradei, but Iran said it will respond next week to the draft agreement.

Voice of America reported Saturday that the US and other Western powers are wary of Tehran’s nuclear intentions, and suspect that Tehran ultimately intends to produce nuclear weapons, a charge Iran denies.

Hillary Clinton warned that the U. S. does not have unlimited patience, will only wait a “few more days” for concrete results. But, the threat seems hollow to most.

Also on Saturday Aljazeera headlined that the UN nuclear deal ‘would cheat Iran.’ “Westerners are insisting to go in a direction that speaks of cheating and are imposing some things on us,” Larijani told Iran’s ISNA news agency.
 
 

 

The agreement requires Iran to send 1.2 tons of its known 1.5-ton stockpile of low-enriched uranium to Russia and France by the end of the year, Western diplomats say.

The British UK Telegraph headlined Blow to Barack Obama’s strategy as Iranian lawmaker attacks UN nuclear deal

Adding “a powerful Iranian lawmaker has joined criticism of United Nations plans for Tehran to ship uranium abroad for enrichment in a new blow to Barack Obama’s diplomatic approach.”

The bugaboo hanging over the entire brouhaha is a growing perception that Obama lacks  enough Chutzpah especially since he has effectively neutered Israel and a threat to Iran as part of some “grand scheme.”

Unresolved is what part Russia and China will play expecially as Obama has turned up so many trump cards by abandoning Israel, Ukraine, Poland and Czech Republic at Russia’s insistence. even pledging this week to China of

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