Assured of a new respite of one month, Iran continues to enrich uranium
The Gauntlet has lasted seven and a half years since that beautiful day in August 2002, a clandestine nuclear program in Iran was fanned by the opposition in exile, Tehran has been stopped defending its prerogatives in the civil nuclear discourage inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in their investigation into the true nature of this program ... and systematically breaking its word.
Iranian diplomacy, has mastered the art of rolling its Western counterparts in flour, just won yet another triumph. On 17 May, the Shiite regime has gained a new respite, through Brazil and Turkey, accepting an exchange of nuclear fuel in Turkish territory, on its own terms.
non-permanent members to the Security Council, Turks and Brazilians have managed to temporarily paralyze Western attempts to impose a fourth element of international sanctions against Iran, after those already enacted since March 2006. These new sanctions, scheduled for mid-June, are postponed indefinitely, other "non-permanent "Supporting the Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva believes he can force his" friend "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian head of state to make concessions. Regardless of whether they have violated the rules of the IAEA, which is headquartered in Vienna, which monitors and fiercely on the dividing line increasingly blurring between civil and military nuclear.
Within a month, therefore, Iran must be filed in Turkey 1200 kg of low enriched uranium (LEU) to 3.5%. If this condition is fulfilled, he will get in the twelve months 120 kg of HEU enriched uranium (HEU) to 19.75% in the form of fuel rods formatted for civilian use only. They feed into the research reactor in Tehran (TRR), the production of isotopes used for medical purposes but whose reserves were beginning to drop dangerously.
The problem is that Iran really is continuing to flout its international commitments on nuclear safeguards, while violating the Security Council resolutions requiring him four years to stop its enrichment activities to uranium. It will have at least 2,400 kg of LEU, cons in October 1700 dernier. Mathématiquement, l’accord décroché par les Brésiliens ne concerne au plus que 50% au maximum du total. De plus, Téhéran a informé l’AIEA en janvier qu’il entamait lui-même la production d’uranium hautement enrichi à 19,75%, bien qu’il ne dispose pas du savoir-faire pour l’assembler sous formes de barres de combustible. « C’est à se demander à quoi cela peut bien leur servir s’ils sont sur le point d’en obtenir directement grâce aux Brésiliens », grimace un diplomate européen poste à Vienne.
The statement, seen from the west side, is simple: faced with the Iranian determination to continue uranium enrichment at all costs, the Brazilian-Turkish mediation, as so many before it, is doomed to failure.
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