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Iran insisting on its right to enrich uranium

Tehran’s No. 1 demand for Iran nuclear talks in Moscow, In the buildup to next week’s Iran nuclear talks in Moscow, Tehran has demanded that Western powers formally acknowledge its right to enrich uranium. Christian Science Monitor, By Ariel Zirulnick,   June 14, 2012  Heading into Iran nuclear talks next week, Tehran‘s top demand is that Western powers acknowledge its right to uranium enrichment, reports the Tehran Times.

That is one of five Iranian proposals will be on the table at next week’s Iran nuclear talks in Moscow, the third round in negotiations that were renewed this spring. The Moscow talks, held June 18-19, will be crucial in determining whether any headway can be made on the diplomatic track before a European oil embargo that is due to take effect next month…….

The P5+1 has suggested that Iran cease enrichment and ship its stockpile of enriched uranium out of the country in exchange for a promise from the West to provide it with any 20 percent enrichment uranium needed for civilian purposes……

But Iran sees such proposals as biased and stemming not only from security concerns but also antipathy toward the Iranian government.

Javad Jahangirzadeh, a member of the parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee,chastised the P5+1 in parliament yesterday for its “double-standard” when dealing with Iran, saying, the P5+1 “has no right to treat us outside norms.”

The chairman of the committee, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, described the West’s demands as “politically motivated” and issued a direct warning: “Undoubtedly, the US and the West have been the losing sides of this game and they had better not continue this game,” he said, according to Iran’s Fars News Agency.

For any concessions on the right to enrich uranium, Iran has demanded a lifting of Western economic and oil sanctions….. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2012/0614/Tehran-s-No.-1-demand-for-Iran-nuclear-talks-in-Moscow

June 15, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international