Ahmadinejad tricks the West

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has signalled that his country is ready to allow lightly enriched uranium to be enriched abroad. Iran could profit greatly from this, writes the daily Der Standard: "He [Ahmadinejad] is making this a test case of the international community's fidelity in making agreements. That is a sign that he is serious - but also, that he is speaking only about a partial solution. For he would not gamble so nonchalantly with all Iranian uranium. Nothing is fixed; what is clear are the motives: the pressure of existent and possible future sanctions is increasing. And the world is watching closely how the Iranian regime  handles its opposition. Tehran certainly could do with a distraction, combined with an enormous political gain: a nuclear deal that effectively undermines the UN Security Council's uranium-enrichment ban."

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