MOSCOW, March 12 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow will study the latest statement by the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Russia's uranium enrichment proposal to adjust its position, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said Sunday.
"Moscow will study the Iranian Foreign Ministry's statement on the proposal to enrich uranium on Russian territory, after which it will adjust its position on this issue," Kamynin said. According to Kamynin, the Russian Foreign Ministry currently does not have a full official text of the Iranian Foreign Ministry's statement.
"Meanwhile, Russia continues to speak for the peaceful and diplomatic settlement of the Iran nuclear issue," Kamynin said.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said earlier today that Tehran was no longer considering Russia's proposal to move uranium enrichment to Russian territory and was instead considering large-scale uranium enrichment at home.
"The Russian proposal is not on the agenda any more," Asefi said.
The situation has changed. We have to wait and see how developments unfold within the five veto-holding countries (the UN Security Council), he said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency decided Wednesday to refer Iran's "nuclear file" to the UN Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions on Tehran if it is found to be in breach of its international commitments.
Russia's initiative was widely seen as a compromise in the crisis surrounding the Islamic Republic, which many in the West suspect of pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program, a claim that Tehran has consistently rejected.
