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World Leader Goes To The UN And Drops Bombshell Claim About Obama Admin And Iran
Did a former Obama administration official attempt to get Argentina to provide Iran with nuclear fuel? That’s what Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner claimed during the U.N. General Assembly on Monday.
Gary Samore, former White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, did indeed visit Argentina in 2010, as Kirchener claimed. Kirchener also claimed that Samore asked Argentina to provide nuclear fuel to Iran.
Samore did provide the context of his request in a statement to TheBlaze.
Kirchener also said that Argentina’s government requested the transfer request in writing (as is protocol); but after that, the Minister of Foreign Affairs never heard from Samore again.
Kirchener stated at the UN: “They came to ask us, Argentines, to provide the Islamic Republic of Iran with nuclear fuel. Rohani was not in office yet. It was Ahmadinejad’s administration and negotiations had already started.”
As previously mentioned, Samore did provide context for his request to TheBlaze.
He stated the story that he went to Argentina and made the request is “true,” and then said:
As I recall, Minister Timmerman told me that Argentina could not participate in the project because of Iran’s refusal to cooperate in the AMIA investigation. I said that I understood the political sensitivities and accepted that Argentina could not be part of the project.
We subsequently approached France, which agreed to manufacture the fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor.
In October 2009, Iran agreed to the deal: Iran would ship 1,200 kilograms of low enriched uranium hexafluoride (less than 5%) to Russia; Russia would further enrich the uranium to 19.5% and ship it to France for fabrication into research reactor fuel, which would then be shipped to Iran.
From Washington’s standpoint, the objective of the agreement was to remove most of Iran’s low enriched uranium stockpile at that time and therefore make it more difficult for Iran to produce weapons grade enriched uranium.
He added, though, that the deal “fell through,” as Iran’s Supreme Leader Khameini rejected the deal.
What do you think of the former Obama administration official’s attempted deal with Argentina?
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/world-leader-goes-to-the-un-and-drops-bombshell-claim-about-obama-admin-and-iran/
