"Iran accepts nuclear-fuel swap deal"

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From http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/201051755444737189.html

Iran has signed an agreement brokered by Brazil to ship low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for nuclear fuel for its power plant, according to official media.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, signed the deal on Monday following a breakfast with his Brazilian counterpart and the Turkish prime minister.

The move aims to ease Western concerns over Iran's nuclear programme, and stave off a possible new round of sanctions by the United Nations.

Reports said Iran had agreed to swap 1,200kg of uranium for the higher-enriched nuclear fuel, which would be used in a medical research reactor.

Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian foreign minister, said in the event the deal is not implemented, Iran's uranium must be returned.

"Based on the agreement signed this morning, if the swap does not take place, then Turkey will be obliged to send back our dispatched uranium immediately and unconditionally," Mottaki said.

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2. Those bastards!

How are we going to justify liberating them of their oil if they won't play along?

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3. Yep.

Could be a win-win-win for the Bolivarian movement in SA (Lulo, Morales, Chavez and others), for Iranians who wanted a 3rd option toward getting nuke power without giving untrusted nations full control over the fuel supply, and for Obama-Clinton since this reprocessing outside Iran was the sticking point so far.

My guess is that the powers-that-be which control this administration, as those before it, will refuse this deal, preferring to profit from conflict there as everywhere else on the planet.

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4. For those who might wonder, "deleted message"

was a spam-bot that got removed while I was trying to figure out if it was or was not. Good work by the mods!

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5. K/R