New ideas on Iran nuclear fuel raised at Davos - FM

IRAN: Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said “new ideas” on the supply of nuclear fuel to Iran were raised in talks with French and Brazilian officials in Davos, reports said on Saturday.

Mottaki also said that Tehran’s own ideas on the exchange of its low-enriched uranium for higher-enriched fuel remain on the table, Iranian media reported from the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort.

“Following discussions with French and Brazilian officials, new ideas with regard to supplying fuel for the Tehran (research) reactor have been raised,” the ISNA news agency quoted the foreign minister as saying. Talks between Iran and world powers on a UN-brokered deal for the supply of fuel for the reactor have been deadlocked over Western objections to Iranian calls for amendments.

Tehran, Sunday, AFP