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Iran Should Resume Uranium Enrichment, Official Says
Iran’s disclosures about its nuclear program should qualify it to be allowed to resume uranium enrichment, an Iranian lawmaker said yesterday (see GSN, July 8). “Previously there were many ambiguities in Iran’s case, but today many of the ambiguities have been removed,” said Alaeddin Borujerdi, the head of the Iranian parliament’s foreign affairs commission. “Therefore, more than before, the conditions have now become prepared so that we can once again resume our activities under the [International Atomic Energy Agency] regulations,” he said. European diplomats said they do not expect a long-awaited European Union proposal to satisfy Iranian demands that it be allowed to resume its fuel cycle work, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, July 10). Meanwhile, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said last week that he hoped the election of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president would not change the course of Iran’s nuclear negotiations with the European Union, Newsweek reported. “Our Iranian colleagues have been saying this is business as usual, and I hope that’s the case,” said ElBaradei. He also said mastering the fuel cycle would give Iran greater power in the region. “I think they understand that the fuel cycle enables them to be part of the ‘big boys’ club, and it’s a smart insurance policy, if they can get that, because again, it sends a message to their neighbors,” said ElBaradei. He added that he hoped the negotiations would help to avoid any military confrontation. “I am still hoping that at the end of the day, with all the posturing, nobody can afford a confrontation. Confrontation is a lose-lose proposition,” he said (Christopher Dickey, Newsweek, July 11).
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