Iran "Basically Refuses" Nuclear Enrichment Deal

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Iran "Basically Refuses" Nuclear Enrichment Deal
Topic Started: Oct 29 2009, 07:45 PM (155 Views)
Wil	Oct 29 2009, 07:45 PM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 12,020 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: September 21, 2005	Getting real close now. Iran Said to Reject Key Element of Nuclear Deal By DAVID E. SANGER and STEVEN ERLANGER Published: October 29, 2009 WASHINGTON — Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday that it would not accept, in its current form, a plan its negotiators agreed to last week to send the country’s stockpile of uranium out of the country, according to diplomats in Europe and American officials briefed on Iran’s response, potentially unwinding President Obama’s effort to buy time to resolve the nuclear standoff. In public, neither the Iranians nor the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed the details of Iran’s objections, which came only hours after Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, insisted that “we are ready to cooperate” with the West. But the European and American officials said that Iran refused to go along with the one feature of the draft agreement that could undermine Tehran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon. That provision would have required the country to give up custody, temporarily, of about three-quarters of its current known stockpile of low-enriched uranium, leaving it without enough to manufacture a weapon. American officials said they thought that would give them a year or so to seek a broader nuclear agreement with Iran, one that could address Iran’s continued enrichment of nuclear fuel. A senior European official characterized the Iranian response as “basically a refusal.” The Iranians, he said, want to keep all their lightly enriched uranium in the country until the I.A.E.A. provides the fuel assemblies of fuel for the reactor in Tehran, produced and fabricated from foreign uranium. Only then do the Iranians say that they would be willing to export their own lightly enriched uranium. “So it’s all virtual,” the official said. “The key issue is that Iran does not agree to export its lightly enriched uranium,” he said. “That’s not a minor detail. That’s the whole point of the deal.” As of mid-afternoon, the Obama administration had said nothing about the Iranian response. Until now, it has talked little about the agreement reached in Vienna last week, fearing that any public discussion would only harden the position in Tehran, where the accord that Iranian negotiators brought home triggered a public debate about whether the West was cheating Iran out of its nuclear stockpile.



Israeli	Oct 30 2009, 03:56 AM Post #2
Advanced Member Posts: 1,623 Group: Advanced Members Member #1,064 Joined: April 29, 2007	They will now (the west) try to reform the deal, in order to stave off a confrontation. I just don't think Obama has the stomach for yetta-nuther war.



Wil	Oct 30 2009, 08:50 AM Post #3
Administrator Posts: 12,020 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: September 21, 2005	Of course Israel won't accept anything other than a dismantling of the nuclear program which just ain't going to happen even if unlikely sanctions are imposed. Clinton says U.S. to let Iran nuclear talks play out Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:13am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signaled on Friday that the United States will allow talks with Iran over its nuclear program to play out before considering fresh sanctions against Tehran. Iran on Thursday proposed changes to a U.N.-drafted nuclear fuel deal, making demands that seemed to challenge the basis of the agreement with the United States, France and Russia. Asked during a CNN interview whether it was time to stop talking with Iran and move toward sanctions, Clinton said: "We are working with the IAEA (the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency), with France, Russia ... who are all united and showing resolve in responding to the Iranian response and seeking clarification. So I'm going to let this process play out." Clinton did not say under what conditions the United States would consider fresh sanctions against Iran. The Iranian pro-government daily Javan said on Thursday that Iran wanted shipments of low-enriched uranium -- for conversion abroad into fuel for a Tehran research reactor -- to take place in stages, not in a single consignment. It also wanted simultaneous imports of higher-enriched fuel from other countries for the same plant. http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59T1LN20091030



Wil	Nov 7 2009, 12:12 PM Post #4
Administrator Posts: 12,020 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: September 21, 2005	Won't be long now. Iran refuses to send enriched uranium abroad Head of Iranian parliament's national security, foreign policy committee Alaeddin Borujerdi tells ISNA news agency, 'Option of giving our enriched uranium gradually or in one go is over now' AFP Iran is refusing to send its low-enriched uranium abroad for further processing, the influential head of parliament's national security and foreign policy committee was quoted as saying on Saturday. "We do not want to give part of our 1,200 kilos of enriched uranium in order to receive fuel of 20% enrichment," Alaeddin Borujerdi told the ISNA news agency. "This option of giving our enriched uranium gradually or in one go is over now. We are studying how to procure fuel and (Ali Asghar) Soltanieh is negotiating to find a solution," he said of Iran's envoy to the UN atomic watchdog. Last month, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei brokered a deal between Iran, France, Russia and the United States to supply much-needed uranium to a research reactor in Tehran. But while Moscow, Paris and Washington all quickly approved the plans, Tehran said it wanted amendments and further talks. Under ElBaradei's proposal, Iran would ship out most of its known low-enriched uranium to Russia for further enrichment. The material would then be turned into fuel for the Tehran research reactor by France. http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp



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