"Iran's president says his country will ask the six world powers at nuclear talks next week for imports of highly enriched uranium — material that the U.S. fears Tehran wants to use to arm nuclear warheads.....
"We are interested in purchasing it, and we'd like to offer that as an issue to expand discussions on the table for the next meeting," he told the AP on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
That request could put the U.S. and its five negotiating partners in a bind at the Oct. 1 talks in Geneva. Until now, Iran has produced only low-enriched uranium, but it could use refusal of its request as a pretext to start producing high-enriched material. The international community is unlikely to give Iran enriched uranium closer to weapons-grade level at a time when it wants Tehran to stop enrichment...."
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The Iranian president will not stop amazing the international community, much to the dismay of the so-called 'hardliners' in past and present US administrations. Najad had been depicted as a moron while in fact he is showing political savvy that many in the West would be well advised to imitate. Iran is after all a country credited for having invented the game of chess and so far they have magnificently played defense (may be a Sicilian defense!) and could eventually win. A stalemate would also count as a win for Iran.
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