Have I mentioned lately that John Kerry's plan to supply Iran with nuclear fuel is stupid and dangerous? Clever people (like those that backed the same failed plan in North Korea as implemented by the Clinton Administration) want this to happen because it, uh...well...because it's...
Help me out here, folks. Kerry wants to supply Iran with nuclear fuel for what the mullahs claim is the generation of electricity ---and he hopes that we can trust the Iranians enough to not take that spent fuel and reprocess it into weapons-grade plutonium. Am I getting this right? Is there any possible reason for this?
Turns out, it may not matter.
After hearing of Kerry's largesse in his very Presidential debate performance last week, the Iranians came out and said:
Iran has rebuffed a proposal by U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry who has suggested supplying the Islamic state with nuclear fuel for power reactors if Tehran agrees to give up its own fuel-making capability.Hmmm. Maybe the Iranians just don't trust themselves to play by the rules.
Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said on Sunday it would be "irrational" for Iran to put its nuclear programme in jeopardy by relying on supplies from abroad.
"We have the technology (to make nuclear fuel) and there is no need for us to beg from others," Asefi told a weekly news conference.
But would there be another reason for Kerry's stupid and dangerous proposal? Read this excellent post at the Captain's Quarters. Kerry seems to have a lot of Iranian friends who would very much like to see relations normalized between us and Iran. They'd like to see it so much that they've put their money where their mouths are.
Ah, yes. Some more of the old "meeting-with-foreign-leaders" bit, eh? Keep an eye on this.