A Reasonable Proposal

Boy, this passed under the US media radar. But it's a good proposal, don't you think? Of course, it would mean a non-violent outcome for the US-Iran "standoff," and we seem to prefer our standoffs on the violent side, especially during election years.

A top Iranian nuclear official proposed Tuesday that France create a consortium to enrich Iran's uranium, in a bid to satisfy the international community's demands for outside oversight of Tehran's nuclear program.

"To be able to arrive at a solution, we have just had an idea. We propose that France create a consortium for the production in Iran of enriched uranium," Mohammad Saeedi, deputy chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency, told France-Info radio.

"That way France, through the companies Eurodif and Areva, could control in a tangible way our enrichment activities," he added.