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November 21, 2005
The Current Plan on Iran

Posted by Dorkafork

It's apparently to have the Russians give Iran enriched uranium.

Now it's not as completely crazy as it sounds. It would be low enriched uranium (LEU) which is not suitable for nukes, but is suitable for light water reactors. They would still need a covert enrichment program to get the highly enriched uranium (HEU) for a bomb. The main problems are that the reprocessing would take place in a Russian plant "under part-Iranian management." No word yet if they're actually going to name the plant "The Uranium Enrichment Learning Annex". The other problem is if, as Drezner argues, we're hoping Iran rejects the deal so we can use the rejection as the basis for more forceful action, there'd be a problem if Iran calls our bluff.

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