SA in New Nuke Talks with Iran

It looks like I was right when I said that our Democracy of Hypocrisy refused to condemn Iran's call to annihilate Israel because of our murky bridge-building relationship with Iran: Iran in new nuke talks with SA.

Tehran - Iran is talking to South Africa about assistance with its nuclear programme in a bid to solve a prolonged international dispute over its atomic ambitions, a senior official said on Monday. "We are in the process of negotiating on the modalities of this participation," Javad Vaidi, an official from Iran's supreme national security council, told state television. He said that South Africa had suggested supplying Iran with uranium oxide concentrate - known as yellowcake - that the Islamic republic would then convert into uranium hexafluoride gas at its plant in the central city of Isfahan. In the nuclear fuel cycle, uranium hexafluoride is then injected into centrifuges to produce the enriched uranium that can be used both as the fuel for nuclear power stations and the explosive core of a nuclear bomb.

So there was some substance after all to the Israeli reports suggesting that South Africa were planning to store parts of Iran's nuclear weapons programme. Reports that the Democracy of Hypocrisy outrightly refuted.

Update:
SA denies nuke talks...again.

Comments

[Ricardo]

Supplying Iran with yellowcake doesnt mean that we are storing parts of their weapons programmes.

You are sensationalising utter rubbish.

[Vaz Lube]

And they are denying

Who really believes our government?

[Wayne]

Maybe or maybe not Ricardo. But why are we yet again cosying up to a dubious nation and regime? Zimbabwe, the oil for food scandal with Iraq (as noted on this site), North Korea. We seem to be taking very strange bedfellows.