My New IRD Piece on Iran’s Legal Right to Enrichment
Posted: November 21, 2013 Filed under: Nuclear 1 CommentJust today Iranian Diplomacy published a new piece from me on Iran’s legal right to enrichment:
http://www.irdiplomacy.ir/en/page/1924877/Does+Iran+Have+a+Legal+Right+to+Enrich+Uranium+Yes..html
If you’re following the current of Geneva negotiations on Twitter (follow Laura Rozen and Julian Borger) you’ll know that this issue is front and center today:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/iran-geneva-nuclear-talks-enrich-uranium-guarantee
There is still too much inertia in the Western thinking on the right to enrich, especially since there is no opposition in principle among P5+1 against Iranian enrichment up to 5%.Time for legal departments in some foreign ministries to revisit their interpretations of the NPT.