Moscow Standing By on Uranium Plant in Iran
Moscow told Iran it remained ready to build a joint-venture plant to enrich uranium in Russia, just days after a European Union diplomat said Tehran had dismissed the compromise plan at talks in Vienna.
The idea, which would allow Tehran to establish a nuclear energy program but transfer enrichment to Russia, is aimed at ending a stalemate between Iran and the West.
The West suspects Tehran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of producing electricity. Iran says that electricity is its only goal and that it has the right to carry out enrichment on its own soil.
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