"Iran has effectively stopped expanding active uranium enrichment since September, diplomats said, while considering a big power offer to fuel a medical reactor if it turns over enriched material seen as an atomic bomb risk. .... But it was unclear why almost half the centrifuges were not yet enriching, remaining idle or undergoing vacuum tests.
Diplomats and analysts said possible reasons ranged from technical glitches to politically motivated restraint, to avoid closing the door to diplomacy with world powers and provoking harsher international sanctions or even Israeli military action.
"The situation is now pretty much as it was in September," said a senior diplomat in Vienna, ...."
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Reuters is late in this and still doesn't get it.
Read Arnold Evans:
"Iran has far more spare capacity to increase its enrichment than it has ever had - thousands of centrifuges operational but not processing uranium - and could nearly immediately bring them on line given a political decision. Iran has not made that political decision because there has not been an increase in sanctions. The West and Iran have been more or less at an equilibrium the United States can continue to expand its implementation of current sanctions and Iran can relatively slowly increase its enrichment capacity, but neither side is racing or making abrupt changes since at least mid 2008."
A deal has been made behind the scene and all out in the front is just theater ...
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