Friday, October 2, 2009

The Nonexistent Breakthrough

It looks like the deal "in principle" with Iran over sending uranium to Russia wasn't even discussed at the meeting:

Western officials at the session said the Islamic republic had also agreed to allow Russia to take some of its enriched uranium and enrich it to higher levels to fuel its research reactor in Tehran, a potentially significant move that would show greater flexibility by both sides.

President Barack Obama noted the deal in comments on the meeting. But Mehdi Saffare, Iran's ambassador to Britain, and a member of the Iranian delegation at the talks told The Associated Press the issue had "not been discussed yet." Asked if Iran had accepted, he replied: "No, no!"

I wonder if Obama was lying in order to give the "image of success".

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