[defenderSD]

We're offering to sell them reactors that can generate electric power but cannot be used for nuclear weapons without building an obviously large reprocessing facility and going through a very difficult technical process to produce weapons-grade plutonium. So if Iran rejects this offer to give up uranium enrichment, the most plausible reason for such a rejection would be that Iran wants more than civilian nuclear power and actually wants to do enrichment on a massive scale to produce weapons-grade Uranium. So rejection of this offer would essentially be an admission that Iran's goal is to build nuclear weapons. By this offer, we've taken away their claim that we're trying to deny them the peaceful use of nuclear energy and turned rejection of this offer into an admission of a nuclear weapons program.

I'm not a nuclear scientist, but based on my understanding of this issue, it looks like the West has made a very smart strategic move with this latest offer to Iran.

[Gordongekko909]

Ahh, that makes sense. Cool, I like this move then. ^_^

[carl in alaska]

This latest offer does look like a smart strategic move. But if Iran accepts this offer we will be giving them the ability to produce Plutonium in the future and we had better have a viable long-term contingency plan to deal with the situation if they kick out the IAEA and foreign technicians and then attempt to reprocess the plutonium into weapons-grade plutonium. We need a infallible contingency plan to stop them from producing weapons-grade plutonium if that situation occurs. I would assume the Pentagon has a plan to deal with that situation.