Some See Iran as Ready for Nuclear Deal

Some See Iran as Ready for Nuclear Deal

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Iran says it has no plans to build nuclear weapons. Western nations say they do not believe Iran and periodically release intelligence reports that they say prove Iran has been working on building a bomb.
For years, that has been the point of contention in an intractable international dispute.

But as the United States and its Western allies prepare for a second round of direct negotiations with Tehran this month, that may no longer be the central question. The more pertinent point, Iran experts and regional analysts say, is that Iran finally may be ready to make a deal.

The analysts cite a confluence of factors, from Iran’s internal political crisis to the change in leadership in Washington, and one overriding point: Iran’s leadership may have achieved much of what it set out to accomplish when it stepped up its clandestine nuclear program in 1999.

In contentious, high-stakes negotiations, deals are possible when both sides have a chance to declare victory, and that point may have been reached.
“If the Iranian endgame is to keep enrichment, and if the United States’ endgame is to make sure there are no nuclear weapons in Iran, then it can be a win-win,” said Trita Parsi, author of a book on Iran and president of the National Iranian American Council, an independent advocacy group in Washington. “Those who have been criticizing the administration for compromising or giving Iran a concession, they are wrong. It is not a concession to adjust to an unchanging reality.”

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When Iran met in Geneva, it offered a compromise: allow inspectors, send its fuel to Russia to be further enriched and keep talking.

Respect and dialogue without invective go a long way.

They can all resolve on Iran's rights and obligations under the NPT as the bottom line.

They are acting within the law. The evidense points to Iran discontinuing its weapons program in 2003. What the US is trying to do is to make Iran prove that they've stopped beating their wife. They only time Iran has been quasi leagally condemed is a minority opinion report from the IAEA.

The issue is about nuclear hegemity, Israel's nuclear hegemity.

Iran has a right to nuclear power and a right to enrich fuel. She has made her facilities public and opened to inspection. India has not and we offered to sell her enriched nuclear fuel knowing full well that what she bought from us would free up domestic fuel for building bombs.