Iranian diplomat elucidates P5+1 pact of proposals

An Iranian diplomat who took part in Iran's P5+1 last meeting told Mehr News Agency on March 12 that six major powers offered some proposals to Tehran during nuclear talks held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Feb. 13.

Iranian diplomat anonymously told Mehr that P5+1 wanted Iran to allow all centrifuge manufacturing process to be covered under IAEA supervision completely.

"They want to have massive control even above Non-Proliferation Treaty framework over Iran's nuclear activities as well" he said.

According to him, P5+1 requires Iran to set a limit to its 5 percent enriched uranium stockpile and convert the UF6 stockpile to nuclear fuel.

Iran has also enriched above 250 kg of 20 percent enriched uranium and converted a half of this volume to nuclear fuel.

Iranian diplomat said the P5+1 asked Iran to convert the rest of 20 percent enriched uranium to 5 percent enriched one.

Another proposal is Iran's avoidance to inject UF6 to new installed centrifuges (at Fordo uranium enrichment plant).

According to him, six powers' proposals to Iran included lifting a ban on gold export to Iran in the first step. During next steps, they promised to lift sanctions over Iran's petrochemical sector and some banks as well as supplying Iran's old airline fleet with airplane details and repair them.

Iranian diplomat said that these proposals were a good step to start progress, but not enough.

"They should compromise more and their proposals weight should be equal to their demands from Iran" he added.

The second round of nuclear talks between Iran and P5+1 is scheduled to be held in Kazakhstan.
Before that, the sides agreed to hold expert level talks in Istanbul on March 17-18.

Iranian diplomat said that some details of the mentioned proposals will be discussed in the Istanbul meeting and we are positive about the results.


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