(Washington Post) Karl Vick - Iran has rejected a Russian proposal to enrich uranium on its behalf. "The Russian proposal is not on our agenda any more," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Sunday. Asefi's dismissal "destroys the last and real possibility of a compromise," said Konstantin Kosachyov, who chairs the international affairs committee of the Duma. "By all accounts, Tehran's decision will seriously radicalize the upcoming debates over the IAEA report in the UN Security Council, since trust in Tehran's plans and ambitions has been strongly undermined." Kosachyov said it was "increasingly clear that Tehran has never seen the Russian proposal as a replacement for a national uranium enrichment program and only considered it as an addition to it."
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