Iran Allegedly Agrees To Deal On Exporting Nuclear Fuel

October 21, 2009 · Filed Under World News

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday that Iranian negotiators had agreed to a draft of a deal to ship much of Iran’s stockpile of nuclear fuel to Russia, but cautioned that it would still have to be approved by Friday in Tehran and Washington.

The draft, which came after three days of talks here, adds important details to an agreement in principle made on Oct. 1, after a preliminary round of negotiations. If approved, the deal would commit Iran to temporarily exporting 75 percent of its known stockpile of low-grade nuclear fuel to Russia for additional enrichment. Negotiators say that would prevent the possibility that Iran could turn the fuel into weapons-grade material anytime soon.

I don’t buy a word of this. First of all, anything the head of the IAEA says is suspect to begin with. Secondly, the keywords in the above paragraph are “known stockpile”. The Iranians have never been honest about their nuclear program and there’s no evidence to suggest that has changed.

Exporting 75% of the fuel we know they have means nothing as long as they keep 100% of the fuel they’re hiding and continue to enrich in secret.

This entire thing is a farce and unless Israel takes military action the Iranians will become a nuclear power.