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Iran Dithers
Swampland — Associated Press is reporting that Iran hasn't accepted--nor has it rejected--the plan negotiated in Vienna to have its uranium enriched for medical use in France or Russia. The Iranians instead propose that they be allowed to purchase the enriched uranium. There are two ways to look at this reaction: as a haggle or a stall. The Iranians, who will argue with decreasing credibility that they remain within the nuclear non-proliferation guidelines, may be negotiating for a better deal. That would fit the regional bazari way of doing business. Or, as neoconservatives will no ...

Iran Pulls the Football Away
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — Not terribly surprising news : TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran on Friday failed to accept a U.N. -drafted plan that would ship most of the country's uranium abroad for enrichment, saying instead it would prefer to buy the nuclear fuel it needs for a reactor that makes medical isotopes. The response will come as a disappointment to the U.S., Russia and France, which endorsed the U.N. plan Friday they drafted in discussions with Iran earlier in the week. The agreement was meant to ease Western fears about Iran's potential to make a nuclear weapon. While Iran did not ...