Proposal: Iran to Enrich Uranium in Switzerland

(Tehran, Iran) Whether this plan is workable or not remains to be seen.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday told Dow Jones Newswires he will consult with other Arab nations on a plan to enrich uranium outside the region in a neutral country such as Switzerland.

"We will be talking with our (Arab) friends," he said in exclusive comments to Dow Jones Newswires on the sidelines of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' heads of state summit in Saudi Arabia.

Under a proposal put to Teheran by the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council, a multinational consortium established by the GCC would provide enriched uranium to power plants in Iran, the Middle East Economic Digest reported earlier this month, citing Saudi Arabia's Foreign Affairs Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal.

The facility would produce nuclear fuel that the consortium would supply to Iran and other Middle East states looking to build their own nuclear power programs.

"We believe it should be in a neutral country - Switzerland, for instance," al-Faisal was quoted as saying.

In all candor, the scheme for Swiss enriched uranium just seems like a ploy to delay the inevitable use of force. It also doesn't address the real concern of the West -- that being a nuclear weapons program buried and busy inside Iran run by a tyrannical regime that vows to start a global conflagration.

Having the Swiss involved is simply a cheesy diversion to buy time.