“Iran counter-proposal is normal bargaining process”
Published: 30 October, 2009, 22:21
Edited: 02 November, 2009, 04:47
Iran, Bushehr: Technicians prepare to wash the reactor of the Bushehr nuclear power plant at the Iranian port town of Bushehr, 1200 Kms south of Tehran, 03 April 2007. (AFP Photo / Behrouz Mehri )
(28.7Mb) embed videoThe current exchange of proposals between Iran and the West is a normal bargaining process before reaching an agreement, said Flynt Leverett, a senior fellow from the New America Foundation.
“There will be a kind of bargaining process for at least a while,” Leverett told RT. “Iran would be prepared to work with the international community on this issue if it thinks it can do so with confidence that it is actually going to get its fuel back and that it is not going to be left more vulnerable than it is already to international pressure.”
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Of course Iran does not want to be dependent on France for the flow of nuclear fuel, and has said so. The Western media seems to be intent on covering up such an obvious point of concern. So I agree with the New America Foundation scholar in this case. He is right on target when he says that Iran does not want to be in a more vulnerable situation as a result of any agreement it is signatory to. What could be more obvious, but the obvious is always hidden as a result of the American media's love affair with the state's propaganda machinery.