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Obama renews threats against Iran
Press
TV
Thursday, Nov 19th, 2009
US President Barack Obama says the door is still
open for Iran to accept the IAEA-backed proposal on a nuclear
fuel deal but warned of “consequences” if Tehran
does not change its mind.
The mid-October nuclear draft discussed in Vienna envisages
Iran shipping out its low-enriched uranium (LEU) to be further
enriched and returned to the country for the Tehran medical
research reactor. The idea was first floated by the Obama administration.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced on Wednesday
that Iran would not send its enriched uranium abroad to be further
processed for Tehran's reactor. He said Iran was instead considering
swapping the uranium on its soil.
"Iran will not send its 3.5-percent-enriched uranium out
of the country," ISNA quoted Mottaki as saying. "That
means we are considering exchanging the enriched uranium inside
Iran.”
President Obama on Thursday reacted to Iran's announcement,
saying Tehran still had time to accept the draft deal but simultaneously
warned that “consequences” may await Iran should
it reject the proposal.
"Our expectations are that over the next several weeks
we will be developing a package of potential steps that we could
take that will indicate our seriousness to Iran," Obama
said.
Mottaki also said that Iran prefers to domestically enrich
uranium to 20 percent, or buy the 20-percent-enriched uranium
that it needs rather than exchanging its LEU with fuel rods.
"However, since they were insisting on the exchange, we
decided to open a window of opportunity and study different
aspects of this possibility... But since their estimate about
the amount of fuel to be exchanged runs counter to that of our
experts, technical examinations are still ongoing," he
added.
"We have called for the Vienna technical commission to
be established again so that we can present our viewpoints.
The commission has yet to be established," he noted.
Iran has called for modifications to the deal, reiterating
that its “economic and technical” concerns have
to be reserved regarding the proposal.
The US says no alteration will be made to the draft deal, insisting
that Iran should accept the deal unchanged.
Western countries have hinted that further sanctions may await
Iran should it turn down the proposal.
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