US freeing Iran funds as Tehran cuts uranium stockpile

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

The United States is to release frozen Iranian funds, saying Tehran has kept commitments made under an interim deal over its nuclear programme.

It said $450m (£270m) would be made available in light of a report by the world's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA.
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The US state department said Washington was releasing the instalment of funds - previously frozen as punishment for Iran's nuclear programme - because "all sides have kept the commitments" they signed up to.
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The IAEA report also said that progress in commissioning a plant for converting low-enriched uranium, part of the interim agreement, had been delayed, Reuters reported. Iran said the delay would not prevent it from fulfilling its side of the deal by the July deadline, the IAEA report noted.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-27076367

[seabeckind]

1. Some people don't waste any time

"on Tuesday morning, Iran had an unlikely visitor: a plane, owned by the Bank of Utah, a community bank in Ogden that has 13 branches throughout the state. Bearing a small American flag on its tail, the aircraft was parked in a highly visible section of Mehrabad Airport in Tehran.

But from there, the story surrounding the plane, and why it was in Iran — where all but a few United States and European business activities are prohibited — grows more mysterious.

While federal aviation records show the plane is held in a trust by the Bank of Utah, Brett King, one of its executives in Salt Lake City, said, “We have no idea why that plane was at that airport.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/world/middleeast/mystery-shrouds-american-plane-at-tehran-airport.html?_r=0

Nah, probably just need to adjust my tinfoil.

[okaawhatever]

3. Re: tinfoil. I don't understand your point. Are you saying that the people weren't bankers from

Utah?

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Diplomacy sometimes works...

how novel. K&R