Iran: Bridgeable differences

• Editorial
• The Guardian, Friday 16 April 2010
• Article history

From every conceivable viewpoint except Tehran's, the International Atomic Energy Agency is no closer to defusing the crisis over Iran's continued enrichment of uranium. President Obama's deadline has come and gone. The offer to process the majority of Iran's enriched uranium in Russia and France is still on the table, but as Iran does not trust a US-backed process to deliver the reactor fuel it says it needs, it has begun its own production of 20% enriched uranium. This takes it closer to becoming a nuclear break-out state, capable of producing a bomb. The Senate Armed Services Committee heard on Wednesday that Iran could produce enough fuel for one bomb in a year, but would need from two to five years to manufacture a workable warhead.

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