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Iran to continue enriching uranium if third party deal fails
By Haaretz Service and News Agencies
Tags: Israel News, Iran Nuclear 

Iran says it will continue to enrich uranium if a deal to procure a third-party source breaks down, the French news agency AFP reported on Saturday.

Earlier this month Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran is willing to purchase uranium enriched to the grade it requires for its Tehran reactor from a third party, rather than carry out the enrichment itself.

Iran Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA) spokesman Ali Shirzadian was quoted as saying that the UN atomic watchdog would be responsible if any third-party deal to process high grade uranium broke down.
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Iran state-run media quoted him saying that Iran "will write a letter and announce to the International Atomic Energy Agency that it will act directly to supply the fuel for the Tehran reactor," if the current negotiations to find a third party fail.

"One of the subjects on the agenda of this negotiation is how we can get fuel for our Tehran reactor," the president was quoted by Iran's ISNA news agency as saying.

"As I said in New York, we need 19.75 percent-enriched uranium. We said that, and we propose to buy it from anybody who is ready to sell it to us. We are ready to give 3.5 percent-enriched uranium and then they can enrich it more and deliver to us 19.75 percent-enriched uranium," Ahmadinejad explained.

Iran insists its nuclear program is purely peaceful, and needs the fuel to power a research reactor in Tehran.

IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei has said experts will meet in Vienna on Oct. 19 to discuss the deal for Russia to take some of Iran's processed uranium and enrich it. He said Iran would take part.

Meanwhile an Iranian official was quoted on Saturday saying that Iran needs up to 300 kg of nuclear fuel to cover the requirements of a reactor in Tehran for a year and a half.

Western diplomats say Iran agreed in principle at October 1 talks in Geneva to send about 80 percent of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for processing and return to Tehran to replenish dwindling fuel stocks for a reactor in the capital that produces isotopes for cancer care.

Shirzadian suggested it was Iran's proposal to turn over low-enriched uranium and receive fuel refined to 20 percent in return, in comments carried by ISNA news agency.

"This proposal is feasible and it has been decided that the different ways of realizing this goal should be discussed," he said.

"The amount of fuel this reactor would need depends on the way the fuel works and it would range from 150 to 300 kg for a period of one and a half years," Shirzadian said.


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