Sunday, November 07, 2004

Britain offers Iran nuclear plant aid - Times UK

Excerpts:
The deal — discussed at talks that ended in Paris yesterday — would require Iran to abandon its own efforts to enrich uranium for six months and to stop other controversial work at its nuclear facilities.

In return, provided the regime in Tehran meets the terms of the probationary period, British and other western European technicians will help to construct a light-water research reactor there.

Work would start next summer after Iran has started to dismantle some of its own nuclear installations. It would also be supplied with reactor fuel for the plant. more
Britain assumes that we can trust the Mullahs of Iran. Where is the verification that President Reagan required of the Soviets? Have we learned nothing from the North Korean experience?

But the CNN report ends with an important question:
It was not clear just how the two sides have resolved their difference over the EU demand that Iran suspend uranium enrichment activities -- something Iran has repeatedly said that it would not do for a sustained period. more


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