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Islamabad as Courier: Tehran Signals Uranium Handover via Pakistan Channel A report carried by Al Arabiya, citing diplomatic sources in the Gulf, says Iran has informed Pakistan that it is ready to move part of its enriched uranium stockpile out of the country and into the custody of an unnamed third state.
For desks across the Indian Ocean rim, the line that matters is not the cargo. Once again, Islamabad is the backchannel between Tehran and Washington, and that role carries weight from Male to Mumbai.
The proposal arrives against a familiar backdrop. The 2015 nuclear accord capped Iranian enrichment at 3.67 percent and limited the stockpile to 300 kilograms.
After the United States walked away in 2018, those limits dissolved.
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