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USA’s nuclear deal rejected by Iran

Iran rejects nuclear swap deadline set by U.S.http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-24 Iran rejected the December deadline for Iran to accept uranium swap deal.

·Iran is still waiting for response to its nuclear fuel swap proposal.

·U.S. has threatened another UN sanctions if Iran does not abide by the year-end deadline.

TEHRAN, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) — Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Wednesday rejected a nuclear swap deadline set by the United States, the state-run IRNA news agency reported………..……Under a draft deal brokered by the UN nuclear watchdog, most of Iran’s existing low-grade enriched uranium would be shipped to Russia and France by the end of the year, where it would be processed into fuel rods with the purity of 20 percent.

The higher-level enriched uranium would be transported back to Iran to be used in the research reactor in Tehran for the manufacture of medical radioisotopes.

Iran has rejected the deal, demanding a simultaneous exchange between low and higher level enriched uranium inside the country.

The United States and its Western allies have been accusing Iran of secretly developing nuclear weapons under the disguise of civilian nuclear power. Iran has denied the accusation and stressed its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes.

The United States has threatened another round of UN sanctions against Iran if it does not abide by the year-end deadline.

Iran rejects nuclear swap deadline set by U.S._English_Xinhua

December 24, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons