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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/world/middleeast/03iran.html
Iran Unlikely to Accept Nuclear Deal, Its Envoy Says
(Reuters-New York Times) Iran's envoy to the UN nuclear agency in Vienna on Tuesday dismissed a suggestion by the U.S. that Iran should agree to tougher conditions than those it rejected last year for a possible compromise on its nuclear program. Senior Obama administration officials said last week that the U.S. was prepared to revive an offer it made last year to ship Iran's uranium to another country for enrichment, in a complex deal intended to ensure that Iran did not have access to enough highly enriched uranium to make a bomb. When asked about reports that Iran would be asked to release about two tons of its uranium stockpile under a revised proposal, Iran's envoy indicated that Tehran was unlikely to agree. "I'm afraid there is no logic for these kind of statements," he said.