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Iran ready to examine nuke fuel swap offers: FM

Stop threats for striking nuclear deal: Ahmadinejad

AFP, Tehran/ Copenhagen
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said yesterday Tehran was ready to examine the West's proposals for a nuclear fuel swap, the official 1RNA news agency reported.
"We are ready to examine proposals by the other side about the fuel swap," Mottaki toldIRNA.
Mottaki's comment came after Iran's proposal on how to provide fuel for a research nuclear reactor in Tehran was rejected by Washington.
The United States dismissed earlier tills month an offer to swap on the Iranian island of Kish 400 kilogrammes (880 pounds) of low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel enriched to 20 percent, in what would be the first phase of a deal with world powers.
Mottaki reiterated a mid-December statement that Iran did not "insist on" the Kish plan.
"The objective to offer that proposal was to open a way for the other side."
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told AFP on Friday that Iran was ready to strike a uranium enrichment deal if the United States and the West respect the Islamic Republic and stop making threats.
"Everything is possible, 400 kilos, 800 kilos, it's nothing," for enrichment abroad, he said in a new gesture to try to end the nuclear standoff.
"But not in a climate where they threaten us. They have to change their vocabulary, In respect and legality.
"In this case we will say, very good you want to keep your word, in this case we are ready to sit down at the table to reach an agreement," Ahmadinejad said in an interview in the Danish capital.
US President Barack Obama's administration has signalled that time is running out for Iran to seize an offer of diplomatic engagement for resolving the nuclear issues.
Iran is under three sets of UN sanctions for refusing to suspend enrichment and risks a further round after rejecting a UN-brokered deal to send its low
enriched uranium abroad to be further refined into fuel for its research reactor.
Enrichment lies at the heart of fears over Iran's atomic work as the process to make nuclear fuel can also be used to make the fissile core of an atom bomb in much higher purifications.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is solely for civilian purposes and rejects Western suspicions that it is covertly trying to develop a bomb.
The United States and the five other world powers trying to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions are expected to consult by telephone on December 22 amid threats of a fourth round of UN sanctions against Tehran.
Washington has urged Iran to take up a UN proposal for Iran to send 2,645 pounds (1,200 kilograms) of its low enriched uranium to Russia "in one batch."
Ahmadinejad said that 1,200 kilos '"is not such a large amount. We have the technology and we are currently producing this uranium (enriched) at3.5percent"