Posted on 10/04/2009 6:42:45 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
The most widely touted outcome of last week's Geneva talks with Iran was the "agreement in principle" to send approximately one nuclear-weapon's worth of Iran's low enriched uranium (LEU) to Russia for enrichment to 19.75% and fabrication into fuel rods for Tehran's research reactor. President Barack Obama says the deal represents progress, a significant confidence-building measure.
In fact, the agreement constitutes another in the long string of Iranian negotiating victories over the West. Any momentum toward stricter sanctions has been dissipated, and Iran's fraudulent, repressive regime again hobnobs with the U.N. Security Council's permanent members. Consider the following problems:
• Is there a deal or isn't there? ...
• The "agreement" undercuts Security Council resolutions forbidding Iranian uranium enrichment....
• Raising Iran's LEU to higher enrichment levels is a step backwards....
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Iran will use the discovery of the second plant to buy time.
Everything this administration does is a step backward.
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