Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Iran nuclear

In the current proposed swap deal with Iran, CASMII argues that:

The IAEA under the NPT is obliged to provide Iran with enriched uranium for the Tehran reactor required for medical purposes by 200 hospitals in the country. Iran has offered to exchange on its soil most of its low enriched uranium with 20 percent enriched uranium from overseas. Iran has also announced it would agree to an exchange if there is 100 percent guarantee that the west would honour the deal and hand over the 20 percent enriched uranium. The West however has rejected these offers without any explanation.

And in more detail here.

In my view it's misleading to say that the IAEA is "obliged" to provide Iran with EU for their reactor; it would be more accurate to say that the IAEA and other countries are obliged to facilitate Iran's civilian nuclear development. This involves not hampering Iran's attempts to get the EU for its reactor.

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