Obama, Officials May OK Iran's Nuclear Program

[FUZO]

TweetThis scum bag doesnt know how to run a country.


Obama, Officials May OK Iran's Nuclear Program





Officials are mulling whether the U.S. will reverse course and allow Iran to carry out uranium enrichment to produce nuclear fuel only, not weapons-grade material, according to a report in London’s Financial Times.


Such a concession, being considered as part of a policy review by President Barack Obama, would be a sea change from the Bush administration’s hard-line policy of forbidding uranium enrichment per se.


The development comes superimposed on a backdrop of familiar rhetorical saber-rattling by both countries – with Iran on Monday lambasting Obama’s continued characterization of Iran as a “threat,” according to a report in Reuters.


Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi reacted to a speech by Obama in Prague declaring that the U.S. would go ahead with plans to build a missile defense shield in Europe as long as Iran posed a threat with its nuclear activities.


“It seems that the repetition of the past U.S. administration’s accusations (against Iran) would be in contrast with the slogan of change (by Obama),” Qashqavi said.


But such old-style bickering may mask a starting breakthrough in the persisting U.S.-Iran nuclear impasse.


“There is a growing recognition in [Washington] that the zero [enrichment] solution, though still favored, simply is unfeasible,” said Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, according to the Times. “The U.S. may still have zero as its opening position, while recognizing it may not be where things stand at the end of a potential agreement.”


Although Obama’s Prague declarations were disturbing to Qashqavi, key verbiage hinted at the very change that he found lacking. Obama’s overall message to Iran was, “Don’t develop a nuclear weapon.” Former President George W. Bush was always dead-on specific in calling Iran to halt all enrichment activity, according to the Times.


Meanwhile, a long series of U.N. Security Council resolutions has not minced words – forbidding Iran from all enriching uranium. The European Union, Russia and China have all in the past backed U.S. demands for Iran to halt the process.


A perennially defiant Tehran has stepped up its enrichment activities, installing more than 5,500 centrifuges to enrich uranium. Furthermore, it has systematically collected a stockpile of more than 1,000 kg of low-enriched uranium – a quantity that if further enriched could produce fissile material for one bomb.


Any U.S. backtracking on the enrichment touchstone, however, would ideally be countered by allowing increased access for U.N. inspectors to acquire more information about Iran’s enrichment plant in Natanz and other nuclear-related hotspots across the country.


The greater transparency, according to the Times report would allow for warning of any move to enrich uranium to weapons grade levels at such sites.


But even with the current limited inspections at Natanz, there may be enough warning of a move toward a nuclear bomb, some Israeli and U.S. officials privately advise, according to the Times.

[Waterboy]

TweetDoes anyone belive that Iran is going to "only" produce nuclear fuel for power? If so, you're a bigger idiot that Obama. It's just a short process to convert spent uranium to weapons grade uranium. If it is allowed, IMHO, we will have a nuclear device detonated in this country within 3 years.

[Doink the clown]

TweetNice........And i like how the leaders of the EU basically told Obama we don't need you or your opinions

[pigmeat]

Tweetwell, ill argue with you fuzo....if we are allowed to have nukes i dont see how we can tell others that they are not allowed..kind of double standard...i dont think WE SHOULD HAVE THEM EITHER

[FUZO]

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well, ill argue with you fuzo....if we are allowed to have nukes i dont see how we can tell others that they are not allowed..kind of double standard...i dont think WE SHOULD HAVE THEM EITHER

Your kidding right,so just because we have them everyone else can. no fukin way pigmeat. we are a super power nation we will not let terriorist countries have nukes. so your ok with having them and then them sending a nuke to Isreal who we support. dude your wrong they will use them. No double standard here pal. you would let them have them just because we do when they will use them towards someone.TERRIORISTS PIGMEAT. dude ive never ever heard anyone say just because we have them others can also.. Did you vote for that blojama

[pigmeat]

Tweetdidnt vote for obama...i just dont feel any of us should have nukes

[Klash]

TweetTypically liberal; flashback to the Clintons o.k.ing North Korea.

[FUZO]

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...i just dont feel any of us should have nukes

I AGREE 100%