Friday, October 2, 2009

So what's the next step with Atomic Iran?

Yesterday was a big day in Geneva. Truthout ran a summary post… here’s a clip: clipped from www.truthout.org

Iran Agrees to Ship Its Enriched Uranium to Russia for Refinement

    Geneva – Iran agreed in principle Thursday to ship most

of its current stockpile of enriched uranium to Russia, where it would be refined

for exclusively peaceful uses, in what Western diplomats called a significant,

but interim, measure to ease concerns over its nuclear program.

    The agreement was announced after seven and a half hours of talks in Geneva

that included the highest-level official U.S.-Iranian encounter in three decades.

    Iran also pledged that within weeks it would allow the inspection of a previously

covert uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom, and the head of

the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, announced that he’d

head to Tehran to work out the details.

    Obama pointedly said that Iran must allow unfettered access to the Qom facility

within “two weeks.”

 

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