Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The view from Riyadh: “Heads Iran wins, tails U.S. loses,"

... writes Thomas Lippman, of the Council on Foreign Relations: "A very clever maneuver by the Iranians, who have sold the same horse twice. The first time, the burden of compliance was on them. But now, they can comply and still have as much LEU as they had in October, gain legitimacy for their enrichment program, and put the U.S. in a very difficult position. If Washington says no, it will look unreasonable and inflexible. And if it says yes, it will have given in on the enrichment program...”

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