Mohamed el-Baradei Mohamed el-Baradei, head of the U.N. watchdog group International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), may go directly to Tehran some time this week with a compromise plan to reduce the possibility that Iran may make use of its uranium enrichment program to produce nuclear arms. Under a compromise plan negotiated last week between the EU-3 (consisting of France, Germany  and the United Kingdom) and the United States, a loose agreement was reached where the final stages of nuclear enrichment within Iran, uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas, would be transferred to Russia. Gholamreza Aghazadeh, who heads the nuclear program in Iran, rejected the proposal on Saturday, insisting that the uranium enrichment program must be carried out in Iran. The rejection came after a meeting with Russian foreign minister of affairs Igor Ivanov . Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Hamid Reza Assefi , denied the meetings were to develop a nuclear program partnership with Russia that specifically relates to the new IAEA proposal.
Mohamed el-Baradei Mohamed el-Baradei, head of the U.N. watchdog group (IAEA), may go directly to some time this week with a compromise plan to reduce the possibility that Iran may make use of its uranium enrichment program to produce nuclear arms. Under a compromise plan negotiated last week between the (consisting of France, Germany , and the United Kingdom) and the United States, a loose agreement was reached where the final stages of nuclear enrichment within Iran, uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas, would be transferred to Russia. Gholamreza Aghazadeh, who heads the nuclear program in Iran, rejected the proposal on Saturday, insisting that the uranium enrichment program must be carried out in Iran. The rejection came after a meeting with Russian foreign minister of affairs . Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, , denied the meetings were to develop a nuclear program partnership with Russia that specifically relates to the new IAEA proposal.
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