Given its proven record of cheating, who would want to sell nuclear materials to Iran? The answer, it seems, is Russia. George Bush and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had barely managed a parting handshake this week at their summit in Slovakia, when Russian nuclear officials were due to sign a much-delayed agreement with Iran to supply low-enriched uranium fuel to the nuclear-power reactor that Russia has been completing at Bushehr. Next week the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN'S nuclear guardian, meets for the first time in two years without having a detailed report on Iran's nuclear transgressions (though inspectors still have some big unanswered questions). Is Iran wriggling off the nuclear hook?
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