U.S. may accept Iran's uranium enrichment

U.S. officials are considering whether to accept Iran’s pursuit of uranium enrichment, which was outlawed by the UN and remains at the heart of fears that Iran seeks nuclear weapons capability.  Mark Fitzpatrick of the Ploughshares-funded International Institute for Strategic Studies said, “There’s a fundamental impasse between the western demand for no enrichment and the Iranian demand to continue enrichment.” The process can produce both nuclear fuel and weapons-grade material. Trita Parsi of the Ploughshares-funded National Iranian American Council commented, “There is a growing recognition in [Washington] that the zero [enrichment] solution, though still favored, simply is unfeasible.”