Iran rejects nuclear deal, MP says

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Source: Al Jazeera

A leading member of Iran's parliament has said that Tehran will turn down a deal that would compel it to hand over its low-enriched uranium for fuel for a nuclear reactor.

Alaeddin Borujerdi, the head of parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, has said "we do not want to give part of our 1,200kg of enriched uranium in order to receive fuel of 20 per cent enrichment".

"This option of giving our enriched uranium gradually or in one go is over now," he told the ISNA news agency on Saturday.

However, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, told Al Jazeera that Tehran was still considering its official response to the offer put forward by major powers at talks in September.


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1. Wow! Surprise is just shootin' from my pores

Never saw this comin.