Iran Nuke Talks Follow-Up: So Why Did the Istanbul Discussions Collapse?

Yesterday I posted an analysis, "How the US Media Missed the Important Story", which sought to highlight a key reason for the failure of this weekend's talks on uranium enrichment between Iran and the 5+1 Powers (US, UK, France, Russia, China, Germany) --- the 5+1's proposal for "third-party enrichment", with more than 90% of Tehran's uranium stock leaving the country, was much tougher than what it put on the table in the discussions of October-November 2009. 

Scott Peterson of The Christian Science Monitor, whom I mentioned in the analysis, has offered us an important follow-up....

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