Holy Crap, Iran May Take The Nuke Deal

I hope this is still current-sounds good to me, but I've been out of the loop.


http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/10/21/holy-crap-iran-may-take-the-nuke-deal/

Holy Crap, Iran May Take The Nuke Deal
By: Spencer Ackerman Wednesday October 21, 2009 12:30 pm


It sure is looking like that in Vienna! The Iranian negotiating team is open to the deal, but they have to take it back to the regime for approval. Cautious optimism!

What’s at stake? Well:



This would represent the first time that anyone has succeeded in putting time back on the Iranian nuclear clock. It would be a major diplomatic victory for Obama, and for the Forces Of Good in general. A nuclear Iran is in no one’s interest.

I sleep with my radio on all night...:shrug:

Forces of Good!

Liz Cheney and John Bolton will be first to grab the spotlight to declare this is appeasement and it makes America less safe!

That crazy son of a bitch will get his war with Iran one way or another.

a bad thing, at least publicly?

Seems like they should be able to use the "peaceful" atom like every other modern nation--to me, anyway.

No, I'm not a big nuclear power fan, but that power source could be a boon to their nation.

That makes me laugh - thinking about Democrats looking at Republicans every time Obama pulls something like this off and saying, "Hey, does he deserve it now?"

"Does he deserve it now?"

"Does he deserve it now?"

"Does he deserve it now?"

as opposed to sending John Bolton to bluster and make threats...

.... swearing last year that Iran would never negotiate.

And people wonder why we so passionately defend the man. ;)

Everyone looks happy and in agreement.

Amazing!

Russia will take the uranium for reprocessing, or so the report stated.


K&R

People a few weeks ago were already calling this a done deal, only to find that a draft needed to be drawn up and that approved.

I'm thinking they'll accept it. It'll mean that all their U enrichment activities, hitherto condemned by and contrary to the UN Security Council and its resolutions, will be effectively approved of and forgiven.

Notice that only 75% will be shipped out. This is weaker than the proposal from a year or two ago to have it all shipped out for reprocessing, or for nuclear fuel and medical isotopes to simply be provided (presumably purchased).

Whether it sets the clock back depends upon one additional bit of information: Knowledge that the known Iranian uranium stockpiles constitute the entirety of the Iranian uranium stockpiles.

Whether any clock-resetting actually will have occurred depends upon the Iranian's timeline: If they plan no nuclear weapons, or planned on achieving sufficient enriched uranium only in 2013, then it's thoroughly irrelevant and any celebration is inappropriate. But that's the kind of thing that can only be known in hindsight (and the possibility of which should instill a modicum of humbleness).