Posted on 07/29/2010 3:49:49 AM PDT by Cardhu
The United States has said it hopes to hold talks with Iran soon and would be prepared to follow up on a plan to provide fuel for Iran's research reactor in exchange for low-enriched uranium.
The plan was mooted in Geneva last October at a meeting between Iranian officials and senior diplomats from the five permanent UN Security Council members - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - along with Germany.
"We obviously are fully prepared to follow up with Iran on specifics regarding our initial proposal involving the Tehran research reactor ... as well as, you know, the broader issues of trying to fully understand the nature of Iran's nuclear programme," PJ Crowley, the US state department spokesman, said on Wednesday.
"We hope to have the same kind of meeting coming up in the coming weeks that we had last October."
"There have been contacts between Iran" and Catherine Ashton, the European Union's high representative, about a "prospective meeting," he said.
Last October's meeting was called to discuss the proposed deal, which would have seen Iran send some of its low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for further purification into fuel for a medical isotopes reactor in Tehran.
Necessary fuel
The six major powers say that Iran could be using its uranium enrichment programme as a cover to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran insists it is entirely peaceful and is designed to meet the country's civilian energy needs.
In February, Iran announced that it had started the further enrichment of its uranium stocks to about 20 per cent purity, from about 3.5 per cent previously, raising concerns about the use of the nuclear material.
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Your title is repeated in the header of your post.
Yes I made a mistake.
Guess we ought to add the folks at aljazeera to the list of journOlist apparatchiks.
The United States has said it hopes to hold talks with Iran soon and would be prepared to follow up on a plan to provide fuel for Iran's research reactor in exchange for low-enriched uranium.
Now isn't that special. Why it just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Hey boneheads (that's YOU Barry &Co) if you give me a FREE Pony, I'll stop calling you commieRATS for a month week.
How about that 'deal'? Want to sit down and have talks about it?
[Simpletons. The whole gubmint is full of simpletons!]
Maybe I need to research the science here a little bit. But it sounds like we'll take their low-quality, unusable-in-its-current-form uranium, and give them back fuel-grade (purity) uranium? Um, isn't that just that much closer to being weapons-grade? Aren't we signing up to do a lot of the work of making a nuclear weapon for them? Does this sound stupid beyond belief (except coming from hussein) to anyone else?
I do not think it is possible to negotiate and come to an agreement in good faith with muslims, particularly the insane clerics that run Iran.
One does not negotiate with a pack of wolves. You better bring gun to the party if you want to survive.
Hahahahahahahaqhahaha ha ha.... Fat chance.
Looks like our policy is “HOPE”. Good to know Hillary is on point on this one. (Sarcasm).
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