"Iran’s Nuclear Clock Moves Ahead Another Hour"

February 8, 2010 by Richard E. Coleson

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"[T]he Iranian president  told the country’s atomic energy chief . . . to 'please start 20 percent enrichment' of uranium into nuclear fuel. . . . But Iran’s announcement has a double meaning. While clearly provocative, a New York Times report speculates that it also intended to serve as cover for China and Russia to continue to support further negotiations about fuel exchange so as to avoid United Nations sanctions. The Obama administration wasted much of the past year trying to prove that the president’s belief in 'engagement' with rogue regimes was smarter than attempts to confront or isolate them. All that has accomplished is to give the Iranians another year to plan, build, and scheme while undermining the notion that there is anything like an international consensus that will stop them."

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