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Source: http://www.friendsofisraelinitiative.org/uploads/papers/pdf/FOI_Paper6_01.pdf
Delineating Western Goals during Nuclear Negotiations with Iran
(Friends of Israel Initiative) Dore Gold - At the end of the Iranian negotiations with the EU-3 in 2005, Iranian negotiators actually disclosed their approach to their talks with the West. The head negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, revealed that Iran had managed to exploit its negotiations with the West to complete its uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, which produced the feedstock for the centrifuges in Natanz: "The day we started the [negotiating] project there was no such thing as the Isfahan project." His deputy, Hossein Musavian, was even more blunt on Iranian Channel 2 television: "Thanks to negotiations with Europe we gained another year, in which we completed [the uranium conversion facility in] Isfahan." This was a classic case of diplomatic deception - or taqiya - in which the Iranians claimed that they were sincerely interested in reaching an agreement with the West, but in reality, all they were doing was playing for time.