Crisis averted: Russia to sign atom fuel deal with Iran

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Russia to ink Iran atom fuel deal:
"According to the AFP news agency, Iran was initially reluctant to agree to Russian demands for all spent fuel to be returned, citing the risks involved in transporting it.
"But Russia insisted on the guarantee to ensure no spent fuel was diverted for the manufacture of weapons."

This should make it possible for the IAEA inspectors to keep track of rods in from Russia and rods out to Russia and no need for Iran to develop dual-use reprocessing facilities. Maybe now everybody can ratchet down the rhetoric about imminent attacks on Iran from the US or Israel. Just last week, someone sent me an article that claimed the US was going to borrow planes from Israel and fly them from Italy to bomb Iran - what nonsense!

There is a great need for expanded nuclear power both in the US and in the world at large. This Russian deal with Iran should be the model for making sure that this happens without undermining the IAEA's ability to enforce the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.