Iranian Diplomat Says Iran Offered Deal to Halt 20-Percent Enrichment by Gareth Porter

by Gareth Porter
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
Sept. 24, 2012

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WASHINGTON, Sep 24 2012 (IPS) – Iran has again offered to halt its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent, which the United States has identified as its highest priority in the nuclear talks, in return for easing sanctions against Iran, according to Iran’s permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Ali Asghar Soltanieh, who has conducted Iran’s negotiations with the IAEA in Tehran and Vienna, revealed in an interview with IPS that Iran had made the offer at the meeting between EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton and Iran’s leading nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in Istanbul Sep. 19.

Details of Talks with IAEA Belie Charge Iran Refused Cooperation by Gareth Porter

by Gareth Porter
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
March 20, 2012

VIENNA, Mar 20, 2012 (IPS) – The first detailed account of negotiations between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran last month belies earlier statements by unnamed Western officials portraying Iran as refusing to cooperate with the IAEA in allaying concerns about alleged nuclear weaponisation work.