should not have been surprising. 

 The Europeans have made a deal with Iran to supply nuclear fuel for Iranian power plants in return for a halt to uranium enrichment (which can supply sufficiently enriched uranium for nuclear weapons) at Iranian facilities. However, Iranian hard liners refuse to give up the nuclear weapons program, or perhaps they don't want to take their program even more into the shadows in order to deceive UN nuclear weapons inspectors. The battle with the Islamic hard liner "pro-nuke" crowd is not being fought in the open, and the details of