MOSCOW – Russia's Foreign Ministry on Monday denied a report that world powers had given Iran new proposals to send its uranium abroad for reprocessing, Interfax news agency said.
Russia said that powers had simply confirmed their support for a proposal brokered by the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send much of Iran's low enriched uranium abroad in return for fuel intended for a Tehran research reactor.
"Russia, the United States and France merely confirmed their support for the previously agreed IAEA proposals," an unidentified official at Russia's Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.
The semi-official Iranian ILNA news agency quoted Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy organization, as saying proposals had been received after Tehran opted to step up its own uranium enrichment, a decision it announced last week.
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