Iran considers halting high-grade enrichment - Ahmadinejad

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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing June 8, 2012. REUTERS/Mark Ralston/Pool

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing June 8, 2012.

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DUBAI | Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:38am BST

DUBAI (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared to indicate that Iran would be prepared to stop high-grade uranium enrichment - a demand of the United States and its allies - if world powers agreed to meet its needs for the fuel.

"From the beginning the Islamic Republic has stated that if European countries provided 20 percent enriched fuel for Iran, it would not enrich to this level," Ahmadinejad stated in comments published on his presidential website.

Meeting to discuss Iran's nuclear programme in Moscow on Monday, world powers are to push for the suspension of its high-grade uranium enrichment activities over fears Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons capability. Tehran denies this.

(Reporting By Marcus George; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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Spinner wrote:
Perhaps Iran is feeling the pinch of sanctions, and of cyber war against its nuclear facilities.

It really was quite clever of the USA to “lose” an unmanned drone over Iran and have it captured by the Iran military.

As soon as it was connected to an Iranian computer, who knows what little cyber bugs will have been transferred into the Iranian national computer system.

Perhaps this is how the destructive Stuxnet and Flame viruses were introduced to Iran.

But it is a mere sampling of the damage which can be heaped on Iran without their detecting any visible enemy.

The key to the whole issue, regardless of assurances and promises Iran may offer, is unfettered inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities by inspectors of the IAEA. If Iran has nothing to hide, then we can all relax and allow everyone, including Iran, to get on with life unimpeded.

If it is found that Iran does have something to hide, or if inspections are not given unfettered access to all nuclear facilities, then the situation for Iran will worsen, and they must be prepared to accept the full consequences of their actions, and inactions.

The solution is simple really.

Jun 18, 2012 10:16am BST  --  Report as abuse
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