Iran never proposed 80%…. Westerners did, and France insisted. The message out of all sides is that this will not work, and that the counter proposal is going to tie further shipments to a schedule of technological back draft to Iran. In other words, as western powers give more nuclear and other technology to Iran, it will ship second and third batches of nuclear fuel….

All this is arbitrary, also, cause Iran has voluntarily not put into mass production / deployment its PIII centrifuge design which essentially will make it capable of producing far more 4.5% enriched uranium than west can imagine….

I do not like kadivar. Kadivar is a hypocrite. He may be challenging Khamenei but he is longing for Khomeini era and his brand of justice and democracy.

Khomeini in my book is a mass murderer. He ordered murder of thousands and buried them in mass graves. Khomeini gave Iranians Islamic Republic of Torture, Rape, and Murder (IRTRM). There is not a single day in the past 30 years of IRTRM that any man or woman should dare to brag about. Kadivar not only brags about Khomeini era he wants to return to it, an era in which women were redefined as baby making objects, milking machines, and cleaning and cooking robots. Legacy of Khomeini is the right of a man to wed more than one woman and have full custody of children in case of divorce even if he is a convicted murder in which case his family is granted custody. I can go on and mentioned Khomeini brand of justice and equality for religious and ethnic minorities but I am sure you get the picture of what Kadivar is longing for.

It is my hope that Iranians have snapped out of their delirium for Khomeini brand of Islam or the mess of a Republic he and his disciples cooked up. I hope Iranians realize another mullah is the other side of the same worthless coin. I hope Iranians realize following these charlatan mullahs buy them and their children nothing but a space in Evin prison. Khomeini and his mullah clans (that includes all mullahs in Iran) are shame of Iran and not something any sane person should yearn for.

This is invaluable. I had not realised that the life span of the reactor was so short — I wonder, however, why the 80% figure went all the way to Vienna. Surely the Iranian side could have put forward the lower percentage well before last week? Or did they do so and no one in non-Iranian media reported it?

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Abdoullah Nouri’s remarks.

More on Kadivar.

The Kadivar entry is astounding to me. I think it’s the first time I’ve seen a DIRECT challenge to Khamenei posted on the FB. And from a scholar now in the US!

Maybe it means nothing. but still.

The current 80% of the 4.5% enriched uranium Iran possesses, translates to a supply of 110 years roughly for the research reactor, when enriched to 20% while the life span of the research reactor is only another 15 years.

It seems to be that the western powers are proposing to allow Iran’s 4.5% enriched uranium to be shipped for too little returning… Iran is counter proposing based on a schedule that will also presumably be tied to negotiations for a second research reactor or other fuel for its current Bushehr or future Civilian reactors. As it stands the deal is not at all to Iran’s advantage. It will give up 80% of its supply of 4.5% enriched uranium to get what? 5 years worth of fuel for a research reactor? It seems the western powers and western media have to realize that this is not as Iran and Obama pointed out mutual respect

Our sources indicate that this, first reported via Twitter, is authentic. RFE/Radio Liberty are running story at http://bit.ly/4kl2Ap

S.

A belated thank you for the item on the Hossienbor interview.

S.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1070287536351&ref=mf