Iran is ready to revive talks with the U.S. and other world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, but suggested that Tehran’s foes will have to make compromises to prevent negotiations from again collapsing in stalemate.
Iran’s insistence that it will never give up uranium enrichment — the process that makes material for reactors as well as weapons — scuttled negotiations a year ago and still looms as a potential deal breaker even as tougher Western sanctions target Iran’s critical oil exports.
[…] The United States and its allies want Iran to halt uranium enrichment, which they worry could eventually lead to weapons-grade material and the production of nuclear weapons. I
West/USA wants basically any uranium enrichment process to halt inside Iran, and get it ‘outsourced’ (done outside). But Iran doesn’t budge (but why?)
Analysis/reading into this point is necessary - Why Iran doesn’t want to outsource enrichment process -
Ex-IAEA personnel Peter Jenkins who dealt with Iran before recently wrote this piece on UK Telegraph, The deal the West could strike with Iran. He thinks the deal *should be* in the way that Iran can keep enrichment but only under (absolute and complete) IAEA oversight. But he just asserts this from his *sympathy* to Iranians (or Iranian regime?) - he does not elaborate on the issue from technical/expert point of view. (Why?)
What’s the difference? Either outsourcing enrichment or allowing it with oversight. Why Iran asserts on keeping enrichment local/indigenous?
Wish it were easier to find technical and political analysis on these points.
By so far, kinda hard to find them.
January 26, 2012, 2:49pm 0 notes
