A Nuclear Offer From Iran

Ahmadinejad listened to President Obama's address at the U.N. on Wednesday.
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Ahmadinejad’s Nuclear Offer -- Newsweek

The Iranian president discusses his proposal to buy enriched uranium from the United States, his continued denial of the Holocaust, and Tehran's detention of journalist Maziar Bahari.

In an exclusive wide-ranging hour-and-a-half interview with NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth and editors from The Washington Post, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussed his upcoming talks with the United States, his opinion of President Obama, and his continued denial of the Holocaust, as well as the U.S.-led effort in Afghanistan, which he views as doomed. In it he previewed his offer to purchase enriched uranium from the United States for medicinal purposes, which proliferation experts say is likely a nonstarter. Excerpts:

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My Comment: "Trust but verify", this was the position that President Reagan always had with the Soviets when it came to nuclear arms reductions. If the verification process was not in place, any arms agreement would be moot.

This is the problem with the Iranian regime. Verification would mean opening up their regime and their nuclear program to outsiders .... a prospect that they have always been loathed to permit. As long as they stick with the mindset and altitude, any nuclear agreement will just be moot.