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Good Deal for Iran, Not US/Europe
Obama's NSA Jones on Iran: "Nothing is off the table"
DEBKAfile Special Report
28 Oct. The US president's national security adviser James Jones said early Wednesday, Oct. 28:
The United States will be ready to respond if Iran fails to take tangible steps soon to meet its commitments over its nuclear program. "Nothing is off the table," he warned.
Jones delivered the keynote address as the first conference of the new J Street Jewish lobby, which advocates US pressure on Israel for concessions in peace talks and diplomatic engagement with Iran and the extremist Hamas.
"We will see in a short amount of time if engagement is able to produce the concrete results that we need and will be prepared if it does not," Jones said.
DEBKAfile's military sources report that the proposal calls for Iran to send overseas 900 kg of its 1,200-kg stock of enriched uranium. The replacement of that amount at its Natanz plant would take 240 days of processing at the estimated pace of 3.75 kg per day. All the US administration can hope to gain therefore from the IAEA proposal is less than a year for negotiations with Iran before the situation is back where it started before engagement. For Iran, this is a pretty good deal.



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at 16:56 on October 30th, 2009
Yep, i see nothing from Iran, except stall, stall, stall. Buying time on the cheap.
at 17:10 on October 30th, 2009
Hugh, What is scary is the obvious reason behind Iran's delay tactics, to buy enough time to complete a viable nuclear weapon. Or, more precisely, what they intend to do once they have a working nuclear weapon.
at 17:17 on October 30th, 2009
I really don't think they are going to build a nuke, this is a problem caused by the Russian's and I also don't think they want Iran to have nukes.
But the pressure from Israel and the hate in the US will surely start a new war in the near future.
at 17:36 on October 30th, 2009
You think you know this Babel-Fish...........................BECAUSE?