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Iran Won't Let Uranium Go Abroad After All

Despite cooperation pledge, Tehran nixes key piece of deal

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 29, 2009 7:27 PM CDT

(Newser) – Iran looks to be backtracking on a key piece of the deal struck in multi-party talks last week over its nuclear program, deciding it doesn’t want most of its uranium sent abroad for reprocessing. “The key issue is that Iran does not agree to export its lightly enriched uranium,” a European officials tells the New York Times. “That’s not a minor detail. That’s the whole point of the deal.”

The development comes only hours after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tehran was “ready to cooperate” with the West in the negotiations, aimed at reducing Iran’s ability to gain a nuclear weapon but maintain its program for civilian purposes.

UN inspectors check in at Vienna's international airport on their way to Iran last weekend.
UN inspectors check in at Vienna's international airport on their way to Iran last weekend.   (AP Photo)
Mohamed ElBaradei is director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog.
Mohamed ElBaradei is director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog.   (AP Photo)
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COMMENTS
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cochiserocks
Oct 30, 2009 12:46 PM CDT
It's like trying to persuade a 5 year old to sit quietly in class isn't it. Or persuading a dog to drop a stick - as soon as you get close - off he goes again. How is this going to get sorted short of some serious escalation?
tomodachi
Oct 30, 2009 12:37 PM CDT
HAHA... my thoughts exactly.. You don't need a lot of experience with Ahmadinejad to know he's full of BS.
RobN
Oct 30, 2009 12:34 PM CDT
Shocking, really hard to see that coming.

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