Tuesday 24 November 2009

Iran needs guarantees to ship nuclear fuel

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"..... Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Tuesday that Iran was not opposed to sending LEU abroad as long as it had "100 percent guarantees" of receiving refined fuel in return, for use in a medical research reactor.

"Regarding the guarantees we are not going to suggest anything, but one ... could be exchanging it on Iranian soil, Mehmanparast told a news conference.

Any fuel swap in Iran, however, would likely be a non-starter for Western powers ...

Iran's top nuclear official said it was up to world powers to find a guarantee that would satisfy Iran. "The only way is that the West should give us a 100 percent guarantee to make this deal doable. The guarantee should be agreed by Iran," Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, told Reuters when asked whether Iran's condition was to swap the fuel in its territory..."

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