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| Iran spurns nuke fuel deal in writing: diplomats | |
| 2010-01-21 | |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Iran has notified the U.N. nuclear watchdog it rejects key parts of a draft deal to send abroad most of its enriched uranium, designed to ease fears the material could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said on Tuesday. It was Iran's first apparently formal answer to the proposal hatched in October and echoed months of dismissive or ambiguous remarks made through the media. The United States rejected Tehran's reply as "inadequate." U.S. intelligence agencies were finalizing a new assessment of Tehran's nuclear program that sees Iran pushing forward with nuclear weapons research but not yet re-launching its bomb program in full, U.S. officials said. Diplomats said Iran's position on enriching uranium abroad was reflected in a memo in the hands of the International Atomic Energy Agency. It repeated verbal calls for amendments that Western powers had dismissed as non-starters but said did not amount to a final response.
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