Iran’s Larijani rebuffs reported offer to enrich uranium abroad

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 11 – Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani rejected on Friday reports of an expected Russian proposal which would allow Tehran to continue limited nuclear activities on its own soil, including uranium conversion, as long as uranium enrichment was carried out outside the country’s borders. Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Nov. 11 – Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani rejected on Friday reports of an expected Russian proposal which would allow Tehran to continue limited nuclear activities on its own soil, including uranium conversion, as long as uranium enrichment was carried out outside the country’s borders.

Speaking to reporters after a meeting with representatives from countries in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Larijani said that the Islamic Republic sought to enrich uranium on its own soil.

Asked what he thought about the prospect of enriching uranium on foreign soil, the secretary-general of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) said, “Enrichment is of benefit to those nations, but for Iran it is important to have enrichment on its own soil”.

He said that British, French, and German Foreign Ministers had not yet replied to a letter he had sent them in which Tehran had insisted that it would not abandon the nuclear fuel cycle, a precursor to the development of an atomic bomb.