Iran warns West not to put itself more in nuclear stalemate

Tehran, June 12, IRNA – Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Ali-Akbar Salehi warned the West on Saturday against putting itself more in a stalemate regarding the way it was dealing with Iran’s peaceful nuclear issue.

Salehi made the remarks commenting on the latest resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council against Iran for its civilian nuclear activities.

Being adopted on June 9, Resolution 1929 imposed the fourth round of sanctions against Iran.

Salehi suggested the Western states to stop drowning more and more in a quagmire made by themselves regarding Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

He advised the Western states to try to find “a graceful way out of Iran’s nuclear dispute” by accepting the country’s “proposal on nuclear fuel exchange.”

“The best graceful way out of Iran’s nuclear issue for the Western states is to accept the nuclear fuel exchange,” Salehi said in a meeting with officials of Iran’s news agency (IRNA) which was held on the sidelines of his visit to the agency’s headquarters.

Based on a trilateral agreement signed on May 17, 2010, by senior officials of Iran, Brazil and Turkey in Tehran, Iran has accepted to exchange its low-enriched nuclear fuel with high-enriched nuclear fuel with the West via Turkey.

According to the agreement, known as the Tehran Declaration on nuclear fuel swap, Iran will send some 1,200 kg of its 3.5% enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for a total of 120 kg of 20% enriched fuel for Tehran’s Research Reactor./end