Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamadinejad has expressed Tehran's readiness for a nuclear fuel swap with the Western side without preconditions. According to Iranian channel Press TV, Ahmadinejad told this in an interview with German television network RTL.He said that although Iran is capable of producing 20-percent-enriched uranium, it still can exchange fuel with no preconditions. He however claimed that if Iran were not provided with uranium enriched to a level of 20 percent, it would produce it on its own. Ahamadinejad stressed that Iran would not be influenced by other countries on the nuclear issue.A nuclear draft deal, first proposed by the US and then backed by the UN nuclear watchdog, requires Tehran to send most of its low-enriched uranium abroad for further processing to be formed in special rods for the research reactor.Meanwhile six major powers agreed to further talks on Iran's nuclear issue in the days. According to Iranian news agency ILNA, a closed-door meeting between world powers on Iran's nuclear issue ended yesterday with signals from Russia that it prefers to resolve the deadlock with negotiations rather than sanctions. Ambassadors of the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany, a group often referred to as the "P5+1", met in New York to discuss a US-prescribed resolution for biting new sanctions against Iran over its enrichment activities.
News On AIR | April 9, 2010 6:09 PM
Iranian Prez expresses his readiness for unconditional nuclear fuel swap