Iran rejects key part of nuclear deal

[TomCADem]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Iran will not send its partially enriched uranium abroad to be turned into material for medical research, its foreign minister said Wednesday, rejecting a key plank of a deal designed to ease international fears that Tehran aims to build nuclear weapons.

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran might allow its nuclear material to be reprocessed inside Iran, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.

The deal hammered out last month with the help of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency aimed to reduce the amount of raw material Iran has to build a nuclear bomb.

Tehran denies that it wants to do so, saying its nuclear program is to produce civilian nuclear energy and do medical work.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/18/iran.nuclear.deal/index.html

[Alamuti Lotus]

1. As well they should

Let us see Israel, France, US, or Russia agree to such ridiculous proposals for themselves first. These nations could also use reduced bomb-making materials.