Just Which Country is "playing for time" in nuclear diplomacy with Iran?
The Race for Iran / Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett
09-Feb-2010 (9 comments)

What is particularly sad about this display of all-around diplomatic incompetence [by the US] is that the Iranians were not “playing for time” with their continued expressions of interest in a deal to refuel the TRR, and their announcement about increasing their enrichment levels should not have come as a surprise.  As Foreign Minister Mottaki said himself in Munich last week, Iran see itself as having three options for dealing with the need to refuel the TRR: 

1)  Iran could purchase new finished fuel for the TRR.  This was the original Iranian proposal for dealing with the problem, communicated to the IAEA last summer.  The Iranians believed that this could meet their need to refuel the TRR and also allow the international community to show its good faith in dealing with them.  They also believed that, if they bought finished fuel, they would have no need to enrich to higher levels and provoke concern, especially in Washington—thereby providing the international community with a confidence-building measure.   

2)  Iran could enrich its own uranium to the 19%+ level required for TRR fuel.  The IAEA, by the way, says that it does not consider uranium enriched to any point under 20 percent as highly enriched uranium. 

3)  Iran could swap some of its current stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU) for finished fuel.  Currently, Iran has enriched uranium only to 3-4 percent, according to the IAEA.   

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Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

The USA

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on

 

is smelling the end of IRR. Therefore it is not going to accept anything. They will just turn the screws until IRR is gone. Pressure is mounting and nothing Khamenei does will help. He should pack up and run. If not he will be at the mercy of the people.


maziar 58

your answere is

by maziar 58 on

yeah But the one we know is playing the game is first America,followed by u.s.a and the third one is united states of america again......Maziar


vildemose

Hass, I'm waiting for your

by vildemose on

Hass, I'm waiting for your response....


vildemose

Hass: The US has decided

by vildemose on

Hass: The US has decided that it can never trust the IRI. that is a given.

 

So now, What are your superiors going to do, Sargord prirouz, hass, Q, etc???


vildemose

Hass again: What is the IRI

by vildemose on

Hass again: What is the IRI going to do about it???


hass

THe US needs a bahAneh (excuse, justification) for war

by hass on

The whole thing could have been resolved long ago if not for US insistance on maximalist demands. THis is what IAEA Director General ElBaradei himself said:

 "I have seen the Iranians ready to accept putting a cap on their enrichment [program] in terms of tens of centrifuges, and then in terms of hundreds of centrifuges. But nobody even tried to engage them on these offers. Now Iran has 5,000 centrifuges. The line was, "Iran will buckle under pressure." But this issue has become so ingrained in the Iranian soul as a matter of national pride."
//www.newsweek.com/id/199149


vildemose

Iranianmilitaryforum.net

by vildemose on

Iranianmilitaryforum.net

 

Can you tell us what your superiors have in mind??


vildemose

hass: You are correct.. The

by vildemose on

hass: You are correct.. The question is what is the IRI going to do now???


hass

The US is stalling because . . . .

by hass on

...because the entire nuclear issue is really just a pretext. The US does not want to see the matter resolved and has consistently ignored potential peaceful resolution opportunities. So no amount of Iranian compromises will ever be sufficient - they will keep raising the stakes and their demands.