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Is Iran just playing for time on nuclear weapons?

Iran uranium offer dismissed by Europe as time-wasting The Guardian Julian Borger  3 February 2010 Officials say Ahmadinejad’s offer to export uranium in return for fuel rods was aimed at ducking threat of sanctions
European officials yesterday dismissed an apparent offer by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to relaunch negotiations over Iran‘s uranium stockpile as a time-wasting gambit aimed at ducking the threat of sanctions.

They said the Iranian president’s offer to export uranium in return for fuel rods, under a deal struck last October that subsequently fell apart, would not be taken seriously unless it was presented to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Diplomats in Vienna, where the IAEA has its headquarters, said last night the agency had not received any formal signal that Iran was ready to change its negotiating position.

Officials in Europe and Washington argued the timing of Ahmadinejad’s comments seemed aimed more at forestalling sanctions, under discussion at the UN security council, than at striking a deal.

Iran uranium offer dismissed by Europe as time-wasting | World news | The Guardian

February 4, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons