Confronting Iran's Nuclear Ambitions: The Politics of Coalition Building

In the weeks preceding the November meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors, a comm wpromise proposal in the nuclear realas offered to Iran, according to which Iran would be allowed to continue its work on uranium conversion at Isfahan but would have to move all its enrichment activity to Russia. The idea was to ensure that the uranium shipped back to Iran would be enriched only to the degree necessary for civilian purposes, but not for military use. Iran initially rejected the offer but subsequently said it would consider it further. Now that the Board of Governors has postponed referral of the Iranian case to the UN Security Council in order to allow more time for negotiations, the proposal will presumably be the subject of additional discussion.