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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/world/middleeast/03tehran.html
Iran Gives West One-Month "Ultimatum" to Accept Nuclear Counterproposal
(New York Times) Michael Slackman - Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki warned the West on Saturday that it had one month to accept Iran's counterproposal to a deal brokered by the UN aimed at slowing the Iranian nuclear program, or else Iran would begin further enriching its nuclear fuel stockpile on its own. Tehran has already made it clear that it would not abide by the earlier tentative agreement with the West. The Obama administration has responded by indicating that it would seek to impose harsh financial sanctions on Iran. White House spokesman Mike Hammer said: "The Iranian government is standing in its own way."