Chippiewill
13-10-2012, 04:34 PM
Iran would negotiate on halting higher-grade uranium enrichment if given fuel for a research reactor, senior officials said, reviving a previous offer in a possible attempt to show flexibility in stalled nuclear talks with world powers.
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel e arlier in the week: "If our right to enrichment is recognised, we are prepared to offer an exchange. We would voluntarily limit the extent of our enrichment program, but in return we would need a guaranteed supply of the relevant fuels from abroad."
At the heart of Iran's dispute with world powers is its insistence on the right to enrich uranium and that economic sanctions should be lifted before it stops activities that could lead to its achieving the capability to produce nuclear weapons.
The United States and European allies reject such conditions. They say Iran forfeited a right to enrich by having concealed sensitive nuclear work from U.N. inspectors and blocking their inquiry into suspected bomb research.
Mehmanparast, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, spoke on the same day the European Union provisionally approved yet wider economic sanctions complementing U.S. plans for further financial penalties.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/10/13/iran-nuclear-idUKL5E8LD0M020121013
It is disgusting that economic sanctions are being leveraged on Iran just because they want fuel for nuclear fission. The US and the EU are so paranoid that they're worried about Iran getting 1% of the way to nuclear weapons. Weapons which they are totally justified in having.
And now Iran are offering to stop their own enrichment program in return for a supply of nuclear fuel and it's been thrown back in their face.
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel e arlier in the week: "If our right to enrichment is recognised, we are prepared to offer an exchange. We would voluntarily limit the extent of our enrichment program, but in return we would need a guaranteed supply of the relevant fuels from abroad."
At the heart of Iran's dispute with world powers is its insistence on the right to enrich uranium and that economic sanctions should be lifted before it stops activities that could lead to its achieving the capability to produce nuclear weapons.
The United States and European allies reject such conditions. They say Iran forfeited a right to enrich by having concealed sensitive nuclear work from U.N. inspectors and blocking their inquiry into suspected bomb research.
Mehmanparast, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, spoke on the same day the European Union provisionally approved yet wider economic sanctions complementing U.S. plans for further financial penalties.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/10/13/iran-nuclear-idUKL5E8LD0M020121013
It is disgusting that economic sanctions are being leveraged on Iran just because they want fuel for nuclear fission. The US and the EU are so paranoid that they're worried about Iran getting 1% of the way to nuclear weapons. Weapons which they are totally justified in having.
And now Iran are offering to stop their own enrichment program in return for a supply of nuclear fuel and it's been thrown back in their face.