From: Ad 

Ah the ball game changes....suddenly it's moved from cricket to
football...oh the transformational changes of a large running cascade

http://english.people.com.cn/200704/26/eng20070426_369939.html

"His remarks suggested that Solana - representing the United States,
Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany might be coming to the table
with a new formulation on the demanded enrichment freeze.

On the eve of the talks, foreign government officials said the six powers
may be willing to allow Iran to keep some of its uranium enrichment program
intact instead of demanding it be completely dismantled.

Recognizing that Iran would never accept a complete freeze, the powers are
considering "a new definition of enrichment," one diplomat said,
that could allow Iran to keep some of its program intact without actually
producing enriched uranium.

US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack denied that the US was
"considering any proposals that would allow the Iranians to retain any
enrichment-related activities."

But another US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, suggested
there was potentially more flexibility in Washington's position than
previously.

"We purposely left open the possibility that direct talks could happen
by being a little less committed to the requirements to have a
meeting," said the official. He alluded to previous demands of an
all-encompassing freeze on all enrichment related activities.

Iran is running more than 1,300 centrifuge machines at its underground
facility at Natanz. Its ultimate goal is to run 50,000 centrifuges a year,
enough to churn out material for a network of nuclear power generators - or
a full-scale nuclear weapons program.

The US might accept allowing a set number of centrifuges to remain standing
and assembled in series but not running, a diplomat said. Iran, he said,
would likely push for keeping the machines operating, if not producing
enriched uranium.

The six powers also want to reduce assembled and hooked-up centrifuges to
less than 1,000. "

i.e. OK, ok, so you can enrich but now we're talking about the numbers of
cascades.....

The Iranian aim is 50K declared centrifuges & at least as importantly
the tech/expertise to churn out as many as they feel like in a timeframe
oof their choosing because then that can help "create
discrepancies" between declared & real.

It's one of the fun parts wrt the IAEA which is that the tech only becomes
part of their purview when assembled i.e. Iran can build 50k centrifuges
& then chuck them into a facility somewhere for "storage" w/o
informing anyone.

Adam

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