Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Iran Rejects Deal to Ship Out Uranium


Iran told the nuclear watchdog of the United Nations on Thursday it would not accept a plan of their negotiators agreed last week to send his country’s uranium reserves, according to diplomats in Europe and U.S. authorities reported the response Iran.

The apparent rejection of the offer could relax President Obama’s effort to buy time to resolve the nuclear crisis.

The U.S. and European officials said that Iranian officials had refused to go along with the central feature of the draft agreement reached on 21 October in Vienna: a provision that would have required the country to send about three quarters of its reserves Current knowledge of low-enriched uranium to Russia for processing and returned for use in a reactor in Tehran used to make medical isotopes.

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