Thursday, June 5, 2003
Reuters Russia Insists It Will Send Nuclear Fuel to Iran
OK, am I reading this correctly? Russia will supply nuclear fuel to Iran regardless of any further agreements Iran makes or refuses to make. Outrage!
But then:
"Until we get guarantees that we will get our fuel back, we will not export anything," he said. "People have got confused, because there are two protocols and some people have interpreted this in a different way."[...]
So, this sounds like they won't ship the fuel unless they also get the spent fuel back, which I presume would prevent the fuel being used for weapons - slightly different than the headline applies.
Now I'd still worry that some might "disappear," or be the product of shoddy accounting. In short, nuclear fuel and Iran should never appear in the same sentence, and anyone placing them together has got to be off their rocker.
