Middle East Focus: Yellow Cake of Zimbabwe, Yellow Brick Road to Tehran……………

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Yellow Cake of Zimbabwe, Yellow Brick Road to Tehran……………

“Iran has struck a secret deal with Zimbabwe to mine its untapped uranium reserves in a move to secure raw material for its steadily expanding nuclear programme. The agreement was sealed last month during a visit to Tehran by a close aide to Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president who last weekend celebrated 30 years in power, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. In return for supplying oil, which Zimbabwe desperately needs to keep its faltering economy moving, Iran has been promised access to potentially huge deposits of uranium ore – which can be converted into the basic fuel for nuclear power or enriched to make a nuclear bomb. "Iran secured the exclusive uranium rights last month when minister of state for Presidential affairs, Didymus Mutasa visited Tehran," said a Zimbabwean government source. "That is when the formal signing of the deal was made, away from the glare of the media."……..”

Now why couldn’t Saddam think of that, instead of going all the way to Niger, riling up the Cheney crowd, screwing up Joe Wilson’s schedule, ruining the career of Valery Plame Wilson?
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