{"id":566692,"date":"2010-05-17T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=84927"},"modified":"2010-05-17T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T16:46:00","slug":"quotes-that-susan-rice-does-not-want-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566692","title":{"rendered":"Quotes That Susan Rice Does Not Want to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s one up high in this morning’s New York Times piece<\/a> on the Iran\/Turkey\/Brazil uranium enrichment deal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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According to a Western diplomat who spoke in return for anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters, the amount of low-enriched uranium that Iran was prepared to ship to Turkey was believed to represent a little more than half its current stockpile.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation has changed,\u201d the diplomat said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you read on in the piece, you’ll see that Iran’s move may not be enough to satisfy the so-called P5+1’s concerns about an Iranian weapons program:<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Tehran, the Foreign Ministry spokesman told a person attending the news conference that Iran would not, for example, suspend its program to enrich uranium to 20 percent \u2014 which brings it closer to weapons grade.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Still waiting on an actual official reply from the Obama administration here. But in the meantime, Amb. Susan Rice’s next few weeks are going to be consumed with shepherding a sanctions package through a Security Council that at the very least would rather not pass a new round of sanctions on Iran. The Iranian negotiating posture to date has been to bust up punitive-minded coalitions at the last minute with the prospect of cooperation, so it’s diplomatic malpractice if this comes as a surprise. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t wavering nations who’d want to get off the sanctions bus at the first sign of Iranian openness to a longed-for enrichment deal. What the administration says — and Rice does — today in reaction to the new offering will be crucial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s one up high in this morning’s New York Times piece on the Iran\/Turkey\/Brazil uranium enrichment deal: According to a Western diplomat who spoke in return for anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters, the amount of low-enriched uranium that Iran was prepared to ship to Turkey was believed to represent a little […]<\/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-566692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566692","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=566692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}