Friday, January 21, 2011

Protects Iran's uranium enrichment if Iran is attacked

.- Warned that Iran will continue uranium enrichment if it is attacked, while their negotiators prepared for talks with six world powers seeking to disarm a crisis over its disputed nuclear program. Meanwhile, the United States stated that it expected "significant progress" in a controversy now in its eighth year on Tehran's nuclear ambitions when the powers and the Middle Eastern country meet in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Friday and Saturday.

However, Washington said he expected talks with Tehran great powers give rise to "a meaningful and practical to resolve the core issues of nuclear program of Iran." And the U.S. is willing to discuss an updated proposal for the exchange of fuel to reflect the progress of Iran's enrichment since 2009, said State Department spokesman Mark Toner.

Meanwhile, Iranian negotiators said they had no new proposals for an exchange of nuclear fuel but were ready to discuss an agreement based on the terms offered last year, which were then rejected an offer to be very small and late. A fuel-sharing agreement, under which Iran will hand over part of its low-enriched uranium (LEU for its acronym in English) in exchange for a specially processed fuel in Tehran reactor that produces medical isotopes, build confidence, but not resolve key issues .

It is likely that any agreement depends on persuading Iran to hand over much of its reserve of LEU, to dissuade fears that retains much of its material to develop a nuclear bomb, enriched to a high level of purity fissile. There is international concern that the declared civilian nuclear energy program of Iran is concealing an attempt to make atomic bombs.

The six major powers dealing with Iran through responsible foreign policy of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, are the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany. On the eve of the talks, the Iranian envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA for its acronym in English), Ali Asghar Soltanieh, took a defiant stance and said in Moscow that enrichment would continue even if nuclear facilities were attacked.

"We expect another Fordow center near Qom," said Soltanieh. "It is, say, a standby facility, so that if a site is attacked, we follow the enrichment process," he added. United States and Israel have not ruled out military action if diplomacy fails and Iran closer to nuclear weapons capability.

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