With Obama’s presidential weakness like that of a half ounce canary, why wouldn’t Ahmadinejad think he can bully the US?
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has proclaimed victory in his battle with the West, claiming he has compelled the US and its allies to ‘co-operate’ with Iran’s nuclear programme.
As Iran’s nuclear negotiator handed in the country’s response to a proposed deal to process its enriched uranium stocks abroad, Mr Ahmadinejad hailed a change in Western policy from “confrontation to co-operation”.
“We welcome fuel exchange, nuclear co-operation, building of power plants and reactors and we are ready to co-operate,” he said in a speech shown live on state television. But he said he would not retreat “one iota” in his demand that the country continue with its nuclear programme, understood by most observers to mean its policy of enriching uranium.
Western governments have yet to make explicit comments on whether they will accept the Iranian response to the deal, thrashed out at the International Atomic Energy Agency last week.
Under the proposals, put forward by the head of the IAEA Mohammed ElBaradei, Iran would transfer three quarters of its low enriched uranium to Russia for further processing. It would then be returned as fuel plates for its research reactor.
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