Griper Blade: Iran, the New Iraq

We're making progress with Iran. That's not a Bush administration talking point and by "we," I mean the international community -- minus the US. Iran, increasingly isolated in the world over it's nuclear research, is finding it hard to go it alone in the world. According to the United Nations, Iran is taking positive steps toward resolving what is at its core a diplomatic problem. The White House, not being huge fans of diplomacy, haven't really been making much progress. In fact, the Bush administration seems to be dedicated to further entrenching enemies.

While Bush is busy trying to freak everyone out over Iran, they're cooperating with the international community.

UN News Centre:

Iran has addressed the questions of the United Nations nuclear watchdog about its past plutonium programme and both parties now consider that matter resolved, according to a statement posted on the UN agency's website.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) yesterday published on its website the text [PDF] of a joint work plan on how to resolve outstanding issues between the agency and Iran after a request to do so from Tehran.

That text states that Iran provided clarifications to the IAEA to help explain all remaining questions it had about its plutonium programme, and that the agency agreed on 20 August that the matter has been resolved.

Don't get too excited. It's uranium that the Bush administration is freaking out about, not plutonium. So, as far as they're concerned, nothing has changed...

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