Questions work for Iran
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 1:29AM ARTICLE: Iran Agrees to Send Enriched Uranium to Russia, By STEVEN ERLANGER and MARK LANDLER, New York Times, October 1, 2009
The key bit here:
Iran's agreement in principle to export most of its enriched uranium for processing -- if it happens -- would represent a major accomplishment for the West, reducing Iran's ability to make a nuclear weapon quickly and buying more time for negotiations to bear fruit.
If Iran has secret stockpiles of enriched uranium, however, the accomplishment would be hollow, a senior American official conceded.
Naturally, I think Iran has secret stockpiles of enriched uranium--hence the offer.
But the "reduction" argument is valid: I don't think Iran wants a big bomb supply. I think it wants the world to be unclear if it has several and to know for sure that it has the break-out capability much like Japan--an argument of mine that goes back years.
My point: there is nothing irrational regarding Iranian behavior on this subject.
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