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Iran's Insistence on Enriching Uranium Is Problematic

(U.S. State Department) Secretary of State Marco Rubio - Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed U.S.-Iran negotiations in an interview with Bari Weiss on Tuesday: "The previous deal was bad for a number of reasons. It gave Iran immediate and full sanctions relief in exchange for enrichment capabilities that at any point could be weaponized in the future....We gave them permanent concessions for temporary concessions on their part." "If Iran wants a civil nuclear program, they can have one just like many other countries in the world have one, and that is they import enriched material....There's a pathway to a civil, peaceful nuclear program if they want one. But if they insist on enriching, then they will be the only country in the world that doesn't have a 'weapons program' but is enriching. And so I think that's problematic." Q: U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff gave an interview in which he said that the goal should be to ensure that Iran's uranium enrichment would be capped at 3.5% for civilian use and verified. Rubio: "Steve subsequently followed up by clarifying that what he meant is that that would be the limit of what they would be allowed to import for their domestic program...like multiple countries around the world do for their peaceful civil nuclear programs....And they do that now. They do have a nuclear reactor that imports Russian enriched material at 3.67, and that's what you need for - but they don't enrich it themselves."
2025-04-24 00:00:00
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