Power Line posted an article yesterday detailing the negotiations currently going on in Vienna concerning Iran's nuclear program.
The government of Iran is telling the Iranians that the Obama
The article posted yesterday reports:
"Iran repudiated the deal. Now, Iran wants a foreign country, France or someone else, to ship it the nuclear material it needs for civilian purposes, but it wants to keep its own enriched uranium at home:
The move came as Iranian officials held talks with representatives of America, France and Russia in Vienna. An earlier meeting in Geneva on Oct 1 had yielded an agreement which some saw as a possible breakthrough.
Iran has amassed at least 1.4 tons of low-enriched uranium inside its underground plant in Natanz. If this was further enriched to weapons-grade level - a lengthy process - it would be enough for one nuclear weapon.
But Iran agreed to export 75 per cent of this stockpile to Russia and then France, where it would have been converted into fuel rods for use in a civilian research reactor in Tehran. This would have been a significant step towards containing Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Before talks, however, Iranian officials signalled they would renege."
Hopefully it will occur to someone in the Obama Administration that the more time we spend in negotiations with Iran, the more time they have to perfect their nuclear weapons and delivery systems. The time for negotiations is over; the time for action is here. It is a shame that neither the UN or the US has the political will to impose strong sanctions--in not doing anything both the UN and the US have made the world less safe. It will probably be left to the Israelis to solve the problem, and the world will condemn them for their solution (while many countries silently breathe a sigh of relief!).
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