Mottaki: No new offer from US for fuel swap
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Nov 5, IRNA -- Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Friday dismissed media claims that the US has given a new offer to Iran for fuel swap.
'Such claims are sort of media play,' said Mottaki in an interview with IRNA when asked to comment on certain western media claims that the US has extended a new offer to Iran for fuel swap based on which the amount of Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) sent abroad will increase to 2,000 kg from 1,200 kg proposed last year.
The Iranian minister said, 'No logic governs the claim. The claim that such a thing has been offered to Iran is wrong. No such a thing has been reflected to us.'
'If Iran speaks of fuel swap, it just raises its demand. When speaking about fuel swap, we took the amount of our demanded uranium into consideration. So any discussion on fuel swap is a bilateral subject and has its own special framework. Also Tehran Declaration has specified quality and framework of such fuel exchanges and swap. Such an issue is not much on table because the other party (Vienna Group) which used to follow the subject has not for a while taken the due step. If they do not like, we too will not need such a swap because the Islamic Republic of Iran follows its own way,' concluded Mottaki.
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