Per my memo to the WILPF listserv just now, wherever enrichment is happening geographically, the consortium structure, mirroring CERN's lets say (an afterthought, not in the memo), would allow faculty and engineering departments to keep up to date on the (monitored) process, meaning Iranian scientists will continue contributing their talents while the Iranian admin continues securing enough inventory for the civilian programs.
WILPF of course sides with Iran in supporting the proposed UN ban treaty on nuke weapons. Such weapons, the choice of juvenile cowards, are used to threaten more principled and noble entities with destruction "or else".
Said ban treaty is distinct from the more watered-down Nonproliferation Treaty which Iran has abided by (unlike some non signatory states or stans we might mention).
Iranians will have no problem procuring and operating more up-to-date civilian tech once the dust settles, and will now have more reason to do so. The technology just keeps getting better.
Wherever enrichment happens, Iranians will be monitoring the supply chain, as they're part of IAEA as well, and it's in Iran's interest to enforce the UN ban treaty, once it's ratified.
Quoting from my memo (I don't have an URL for it):
Per these attacks by the neocons on Iranian nuke facilities: hardware in the nuke industry has a short half life meaning it amortizes rather quickly in terms of newer, better models coming online with support tech to boot, ergo Iran can't be stopped from at least planning to buy into the next round of nuke tech. Murdering a few scientists, however vicious, isn't going to change anything on that score. Iran will be able to procure and operate newer versions of whatever is destroyed, especially in a world without sanctions and United Nations banned nuke weapons (WILPF's goal).
Should Iran give up on domestic enrichment? Where enrichment operations are sited has less to do with ownership than with monitoring. Iran was eager to let IAEA keep monitoring its programs because it was proudly anti nuke weapon (nuke weapons are for cowards, obviously), but if the IAEA has to only monitor enrichment outside the Middle East for now, that won't mean Iranian faculty and stockholders can't nevertheless benefit from participating in the consortium. Iran will still be in the enrichment business, wherever the facilities are geographically located. That's my prediction.I don't see Netenyahu accomplishing anything positively significant on behalf of the people he claims (weakly) to represent with his silly "Rising Lion" scenario (scoff, snicker), a tawdry piece of melodrama like something only a really poor-quality Hollywood studio would come up with. Rotten tomatoes x 10.
