Posted on 06/11/2006 11:30:22 PM PDT by MadIvan
IRAN yesterday gave its most negative assessment of proposals offered by six world powers aiming to persuade it to give up sensitive atomic work, but said the issue of uranium enrichment needed clarification.
The proposals, which include incentives and penalties, are based on a demand that Iran stops enriching uranium, a process that can make fuel for power plants, as Tehran insists it is doing, or material for bombs, as the West contends.
Tehran has rejected several calls to stop the enrichment.
"These proposals contain some positive points. At the same time there are problems and ambiguous points," Ali Larijani, the chief nuclear negotiator, said in Cairo.
Previously, he had not referred to "problems" but only to unspecified "ambiguities".
When asked later what the ambiguities were, he said, through a translator: "For example, that which relates to the enrichment process in Iran. There must be clarification in a transparent way."
Before the proposal was delivered, Iranian officials insisted they would not give up enrichment, usually described as a national right, though some officials had hinted Iran might negotiate over plans for industrial-scale enrichment.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Bump
I think we should send some of our nuclear technology by they quickest possible method.
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Again, I think they are on the verge of getting the technology from Vlad. "No Oil For Nukes!"
In any case, get Hans "I Need New Glasses" Blix out of the mix.
Not yet. Tehran has been relatively quiet these days. I'd love to know what that package contains. I guess we'll find out in a few weeks, as Tehran's response is expected in time for a conference in Russia.
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