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Iran Said to Ignore Effort to Salvage Nuclear Deal
Published: November 8, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, attempting to salvage a faltering nuclear deal with
Iran,
has told Iran’s leaders in back-channel messages that it is willing to
allow the country to send its stockpile of enriched uranium to any of
several nations, including Turkey, for temporary safekeeping, according
to administration officials and diplomats involved in the exchanges.
But the overtures, made through the
International Atomic Energy Agency
over the past two weeks, have all been ignored, the officials said.
Instead, they said, the Iranians have revived an old counterproposal:
that international arms inspectors take custody of much of Iran’s fuel,
but keep it on Kish, a Persian Gulf resort island that is part of Iran.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/world/middleeast/09iran.html?_r=2