Barack Obama’s policy on brink of collapse as Tehran does last-minute nuclear stall

Reposted from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6888029.ece

October 24, 2009 @ 12:05 pm

President Obama’s policy of diplomatic engagement with Iran is close to collapse as Tehran backtracks on a crucial deal aimed at cutting its stockpiles of nuclear fuel.

Today, however, with just hours until the deadline, Iran has turned the table on its foreign interlocutors with a rival proposal, demanding that it be allowed to buy higher enriched uranium directly from abroad.

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