Posted on 10/21/2009 9:01:55 PM PDT by Libloather
U.S., Iran move closer to nuclear deal
Regional security concerns and diplomacy clear a path to a multinational agreement in which Tehran would transfer its nuclear material abroad to be processed for medical purposes.
By Borzou Daragahi
October 22, 2009
Reporting from Beirut - Deft diplomacy and regional security woes are driving Tehran and Washington toward a deal on Iran's nuclear program, experts say, illustrated by movement Wednesday in talks to transfer most of the Islamic Republic's fissile material abroad to be processed for medical uses.
For three decades, Iran and the U.S. have been locked in a frustrating diplomatic flirtation. When one felt strong enough to offer a deal, the other felt too weak to accept.
This time may ultimately prove to be no different. But Iran now is facing its greatest domestic political challenge in decades, unrest in Pakistan and Afghanistan is seeping across its borders, and the Obama administration is committed to creative diplomacy to resolve the standoff.
In talks in Vienna on Wednesday, Iranian, American, Russian and French diplomats agreed to a proposal by the U.N. nuclear monitor, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, to transfer most of Iran's stockpile of nuclear material to Russia and France to be further processed for a Tehran reactor used for medical purposes.
The deal, which must be signed by officials in capitals by Friday, could fall apart if one party refuses or insists on 11th-hour tinkering.
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Only Israel can save us now.
Snivel Hussein Chamberlain will say: “I have brought you peace in our time!”
they already got nukes all smoke and mirrors. i hope these idiots dont fall for this crap
They are in fee fall..
They will always be “moving closer” to a deal. If you posit that there is a deal at some future point then whatever occurs the time is closer to that point so you are closer to the deal. With Iran the deal is they are going to do a bomb and they need time so they keep the western idiots doing “diplomacy” and “compromise” on some wording about getting lunch between the AM and PM sessions and the diplomats are ecstatic that there is “progress” and the Iranians get a little more free development time.
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