{"id":566474,"date":"2010-05-17T08:27:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T12:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=84884"},"modified":"2010-05-17T08:27:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T12:27:27","slug":"iran-uranium-%e2%80%98breakthrough%e2%80%99-just-in-time-for-a-sanctions-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566474","title":{"rendered":"Iran Uranium \u2018Breakthrough,\u2019 Just in Time for a Sanctions Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s difficult not to be skeptical here, but the Iranian regime is announcing<\/a> that it’s reached a deal, brokered by Brazil, to send the majority of its uranium to Turkey to be enriched into a state unsuitable for nuclear weapons. On the face of it, that would revive a deal President Obama proposed last year to have a third country do Iran’s enrichment for it, thereby putting time back on the clock before Iran went nuclear to assemble an international strategy to change Iran’s decision-making on developing nuclear weapons. Iran rejected that offer<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that’s the face of it. The United States is in its strongest position ever at the United Nations Security Council<\/a> to place economic sanctions on Iran<\/a>, thanks in large part to consistent Iranian rebuffs of U.S. outreach. That means the smart strategy for Iran is a late-breaking show of superficial reasonableness. “This is a potentially important breakthrough and could signal a return to engagement, which everyone wants to see,” proliferation expert Jacqueline Shire tells Politico’s Laura Rozen<\/a>. But it remains to be seen if what everyone wants<\/em> to see gets in the way of what they should<\/em> see.<\/p>\n

The Obama administration has yet to comment on the prospective Turkey enrichment move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s difficult not to be skeptical here, but the Iranian regime is announcing that it’s reached a deal, brokered by Brazil, to send the majority of its uranium to Turkey to be enriched into a state unsuitable for nuclear weapons. On the face of it, that would revive a deal President Obama proposed last year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}