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Eitam’s talk avoided the more controversial topics of Palestine-Israel conflict and centered mostly on discussion of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, which he called an “existential problem” that will culminate in “enormous tragedy...
...think it’s important for both the U.S. and the rest of the free world to stop the potential spread of rogue regime activity as demonstrated so clearly and so many times by the Iranian regime,” said Cohen after the talk...
...past, they said that we had to halt our nuclear activities," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday, hailing what he called the new "cooperative" stance of the West. "But today they say, 'Come consult about finding solutions for world problems,' and they want to cooperate for the exchange of fuel and development of nuclear technology and establishing a nuclear plant." He reiterated that Iran has no intention of relinquishing its "nuclear rights," typically a reference to uranium enrichment...
...Partly because of the discrepancy between their ultimate intentions, Iran doesn't trust some of its negotiating partners - particularly France, which has adopted the most hawkish position among the Western powers against any Iranian enrichment. In other words, the very thing that Western powers like about the proposal - that it separates Iran from its uranium stockpile - is precisely what the Iranians fear as a prelude to moves to end all of its enrichment...
...hard to see how the competing underlying objectives influence both sides' approach to the deal. Having tried unsuccessfully to sideline France from the deal, Iranian officials have talked of possibly extending the range of suppliers of enriched uranium to include China - which is fast emerging as Iran's most significant economic partner and is not aligned with the more dire Western reading of Iran's intentions. And Iran will likely insist that it send its uranium to Russia in smaller installments and over a longer time frame, to test the bona fides of its partners without surrendering most...