A deal to ship much of Iran’s stockpile of nuclear fuel to Russia might avert a crisis and an attack by the US or Israel on Iranian nuclear sites.
If approved, the deal would commit Iran to temporarily exporting 75 percent of its known stockpile of low-grade nuclear fuel to Russia for additional enrichment.
The proposed deal will remove enough nuclear fuel from Iran to delay any work on a nuclear weapon until the country can replenish its stockpile of fuel, estimated to require about one year. Iit would buy more time for President Obama to try to negotiate a more comprehensive and more difficult agreement to end Iran’s production of new nuclear material.
