'...including ratification and implementation of the Additional Protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.'<blockquote>'Even against this backdrop, Tehran continues to say that it would stop enriching at higher levels if it is guaranteed new fuel for the TRR -- and the United States and its partners accept the Joint Declaration Iranian officials negotiated with Brazil and Turkey in May. This latter point underscores the issue of enrichment -- at the lower, 3-4 percent level -- as the heart of the matter. The Iran-Turkey-Brazil deal includes, as its first substantive item, a forthright acknowledgement that the Islamic Republic has the "right" to "develop research, production and use of nuclear energy (as well as nuclear fuel cycle including enrichment activities) for peaceful purposes without discrimination."
In the face of multiple UN Security Council resolutions demanding that the Islamic Republic suspend all uranium enrichment, Tehran wants its right to enrich acknowledged as an essential condition for progress toward a larger nuclear deal. In our conversations with them, Iranian officials have consistently indicated that acceptance of safeguarded enrichment in Iran would open up possibilities for cooperative solutions to other contentious points in the Islamic Republic's nuclear diplomacy with the world's major powers -- including ratification and implementation of the Additional Protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The Obama Administration remains internally divided on the enrichment issue. If President Obama is finally prepared to show real leadership on this issue and accept safeguarded enrichment in Iran, he can get a nuclear deal that addresses the proliferation concerns associated with Iran's fuel cycle activities and put relations with the Islamic Republic on a more positive trajectory...'
- Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett,
Obama on Iran: The Substance behind the "Signal", August 5, 2010</blockquote>
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<blockquote>'Another safety valve would result from successful negotiation of the kind of bilateral “incidents-at-sea” protocol that was concluded with the Russians in 1972 during a period of relatively high tension.'
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'..military-to-military dialogue could “add to a better understanding” between the U.S. and Iran.' - VIPS, 03 August 2010</blockquote>