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Originally Posted by roachboy
Iran agrees to open up uranium enrichment plant to inspection | World news | The Guardian
i wasn't going to bother with this thread as will seems to have made the arguments that i would have up to this point.
but gee, ain't it strange how actual engagement seems to have produced more in a day than the bush-cheney approach did in 8 years?
all this with the unfortunate reality of ahmadinejad still being somehow in office.
but to be coherent about iran, you'd have to acknowledge the persistent gap between the public face of the internal regime and it's diplomatic actions. they're quite different one from the other. one of the iranian objectives behind the scenes for some time has been to get direct talks with the united states. that this is a problem for their internally-directed politics is self-evident if you know anything about how the revolution turned out and why it happened in the first place.
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From the article cited:
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The most concrete, and potentially most significant, gain from the Geneva talks was an agreement in principle that Iran would send a significant quantity of its stockpile of low enriched uranium (LEU) for further enriching and processing in Russia and France respectively, so that it could be used as fuel in its research reactor in Tehran, which makes isotopes for medical uses. Western experts at today's session said that up to 1,200kg of LEU could be involved, three-quarters of Iran's declared stock.
It would be further enriched in Russia from below 5% purity to just under 20% – enough for the research reactor but not enough for a warhead.
Once it had been turned into fuel ‑ at a French plant ‑ it would be extremely hard to turn into a weapon, and so would defuse the immediate international tension surrounding the purpose of Iran's uranium stockpile, which some scientists say is enough to make a warhead.
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And I understand that Iran agreed to unrestricted inspections, if they have a weapons program that we don't know about... Understanding that I am a skeptic, I doubt I need to add anything further, just take note. I do hope this is the beginning of the end of this potential problem.