IAEA: Iran Slows Uranium Enrichment

NPR:

In what it calls a "significant" development, the International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has slowed enrichment of uranium and increased cooperation with the agency -- meaning Iran could be cleared of suspicions that its nuclear work in the past was part of a plan to build nuclear weapons.

Bloomberg reports that IAEA officials in Vienna say that it's the first time that they've agreed with Iran on a plan to resolve the outstanding issues that triggered sanctions from the United Nations Security Council.

But the development probably won't satisfy Iran's biggest critic, the United States, Bloomberg reports.

Read the whole story: NPR

Comments

[drblack]

02:56 AM on 08/31/2007

One point that needs to be emphasized is that Iran has at most made a very low grade of Uranium that cannot be made into a bomb.
they are a long way from making a weapons grade Fissionable material. Even if they do they then have to make lots of it and have a delivery system for it. A missile designed for high explosives won't work.
Just as i KNEW 100% that there was no way Iraq could have any quantity of WMDs because we watched Iraq closely if we watch Iran they will never be able to put together a true nuclear weapon.
Let us also remember that until Bush,republicans and neoCONS started calling Iran part of the Axis of Evil ,the people of Iran were pushing hard for a more moderate ,secular government. Bush and his minions pushed the majority moderates into a corner where they had to side with anti-Iranian America or pro-Iranian extremists in Iran: of course they went with their own country.

[royjeffries]

11:50 AM on 08/31/2007

You almost sounded like you knew what you were talking about until you planted the blame for this situation on Bush. Did you forget about Clinton's economic embargo in response to the Chinese nuclear reactor deal back in the mid-90s? I'm sure that did nothing to radicalize any Iranians. Not that what Clinton did really changed the determined course that the Iranians were already on, subsequently added by our Russian "friends".

[royjeffries]

02:00 PM on 08/31/2007

I meant "aided", not "added".

[Dap]

02:18 AM on 08/31/2007

"But the development probably won't satisfy Iran's biggest critic, the United States, Bloomberg reports."

Let us make this perfectly clear...

The Iranians biggest critic is Israel. Lets not buy into the propaganda that the Israelis try to feed everyone, those like Senator Joseph Lieberman et al are the biggest part of this problem with this escalating war with Iran rhetoric.

Israel is *NOT* an honest broker. Make *No* mistake about that, their agenda is clear.

Anyone that says otherwise can only be in major denial or a bold face liar.

[TitaniumAvatar]

03:51 PM on 08/30/2007

Don't worry the Bush administration will mak a few 'factual corrections' to this IAEA report.