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Iran wanting changes to uranium transfer plan

Iran to Demand Changes to Uranium Transfer Proposal, Report Says Global Security Newswire  Oct. 27, 2009 * Iran intends to demand significant revisions to a U.N. proposal for France and Russia to refine a large portion of the Middle Eastern nation’s low-enriched uranium, Iranian state media reported today (see GSN, Oct. 26)…………………

“Iran will accept the broad framework of the deal, but wants very important changes in it,” the Iranian channel stated, according to Agence France-Presse.

ElBaradei’s plan calls for Iran to send 1,200 kilograms of low-enriched uranium abroad from its estimated 1,500-kilogram stockpile of the material, France has indicated. The material would undergo additional enrichment and be returned to Iran for use in a medical research reactor in Tehran (Deshmukh/Pouladi, Agence France-Presse

NTI: Global Security Newswire – Iran to Demand Changes to Uranium Transfer Proposal, Report Says

October 28, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons