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Iran fails to accept U.N.-drafted nuclear deal
Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:52am EDT
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By Parisa Hafezi
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran Friday failed to accept a U.N.-drafted plan for it to cut a stockpile of nuclear fuel that the West fears could be used for weapons, and instead said it wanted to buy nuclear fuel from abroad.
The deal drafted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has already been approved by the other parties -- the United States, Russia and France.
By offering a rival proposal, Iran appeared to be following a well-tested strategy of buying time to avert a threatened tightening of international sanctions.
Iran's reported counter-offer appeared at first glance to offer the West little.
It would not only fail to reduce the stockpile of enriched uranium that is worrying the international community, but also require sanctions imposed on Iran since 2006 to be waived to allow it to buy such sensitive nuclear material.
"Iran is interested in buying fuel for the Tehran research reactor within the framework of a clear proposal," Iranian state television quoted a member of Iran's negotiating team, who attended nuclear talks in Vienna this week, as saying.
"We are waiting for the other party's constructive and trust-building response."
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was quoted as saying during a visit to Lebanon that "via the indications we are receiving, matters are not very positive."
Precise details of Iran's counter-proposal were not made public, and Washington said it was still awaiting a formal Iranian response. But it was unclear how allowing Iran to buy nuclear fuel would fit the big powers' aims.
Western diplomats said the IAEA plan, which has also not been made public, would require Tehran to send 1.2 tons of its known 1.5-tonne stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Russia and France by the end of the year.
There it would be further enriched, in a way that would make it hard to use for warheads, and returned to Iran for use in a Tehran reactor that makes radioactive medical isotopes.
The deal would test Iran's stated intention to use enriched uranium only for peaceful energy.
It would also buy time for broader talks on world powers' ultimate goal: that Iran allay fears that it has a secret nuclear weapons program by curbing enrichment, in return for trade and technology benefits.
U.S., RUSSIA AND FRANCE ON BOARD
Diplomats said the United States and France had confirmed their acceptance of the IAEA draft accord in notes sent to the IAEA, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, and Russia said Friday it was also on board. Continued...
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