Iran rejects nuclear compromise

Plan would allow uranium enrichment in Russia

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran said on Friday it would not accept any proposal aimed at solving its nuclear standoff with the West that did not allow it to enrich uranium on its own territory.

"For Iran it is important to have (uranium) enrichment on its own soil," Ali Larijani, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.

He was responding to questions about reports that Russia planned to propose a compromise plan, with tentative backing from the European Union and Washington.

Under the proposal Iran, which insists its nuclear program would never be used to make atomic arms, would be allowed to "convert" uranium, a preliminary stage in the process of making nuclear fuel.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/11/iran.nuclear.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest

as long as Bush* is pResident. Saddam let the inspectors into Iraq ... and he got bombed and ousted anyway. No other country is going to trust us or our allies as long as the Chimp is in charge. Why should they?

It would be good for them and will halt the PNAC in its tracks

Neoliberals in the Russian government fool themselves yet again. It was quite clear that this idea is a non-starter!

Iran rejects compromise nuclear deal: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/587F873D-19B8-4372-A1A0-4271C9A1ABD8.htm

The head of Iran's nuclear agency has ruled out a compromise proposal that uranium enrichment for his country's controversial nuclear programme be carried out in Russia and said that enrichment must be done in Iran.