This is indeed hypocritical and suicidally short-sighted of the French. By Rob Edwards in the Sunday Herald, with thanks to all who sent this in:
WESTERN GOVERNMENTS have been accused of “stunning hypocrisy” after it was revealed that Iran has a 10% stake in the world’s largest uranium enrichment plant in France.
All the time that Britain, France and the US have been pressing the Iranian government to cease enriching uranium, the Islamic republic has been reaping multimillion pound dividends from its shareholding in Eurodif, an international enrichment plant at Pierrelatte in southern France.