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Obama administration walking the line on deal with Iran |
During this week's meeting between US and Iranian negotiators in
Geneva, Tehran has agreed to send most of its openly declared enriched uranium
outside Iran to be turned into fuel, but the Obama administration is still sceptical
about its victory. President Barack Obama's strategy of 'direct engagement, without
preconditions, with Iran' seemed to have worked, but considering Iran's backtracking
history, Washington is still wondering whether the Islamic country is serious
this time? Iranians have often been accused of making promises and encouraging
more meetings, while waiting for political currents to change or the closed ranks
among the Western allies to break. "Taking the step of transferring its low-enriched
uranium to a third country would be a step towards building confidence that Iran's
program is in fact peaceful. "We're not interested in talking for the sake of
talking. If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations,
then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely, and we are
prepared to move towards increased pressure," the New York Times quoted a cautious
Obama, as saying. According to the paper, the lukewarm announcements were exact
opposite of what a White House usually does after major international talks. Instead
of painting tepid concessions as major breakthroughs and going on and on about
"warm substantive" meetings, officials were treating a major breakthrough as if
it were a suspicious package. "This is actually quite important if it takes place.
If you establish an arrangement whereby Iran's fuel is exported abroad, then that
relieves some degree of your proliferation concern. You don't want to go out and
celebrate an achievement and then watch the Iranians backtrack. You have to actually
get that L.E.U. on a plane, said Ray Takeyh, a former Iran adviser to the Obama
administration. Further deteriorating Washington's concern were Iranian officials,
who did not sound as if they had promised anything. "No, no! The idea of sending
Iran's enriched uranium out of the county had "not been discussed yet," Mehdi
Saffare, Iran's ambassador to Britain said. |
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