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Iran Six may rethink proposals on Tehran's nuclear program - Lavrov

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov does not rule out that the Iran Six may reconsider its proposals on resolving the issue of the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov does not rule out that the Iran Six may reconsider its proposals on resolving the issue of the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.

Western powers suspect Iran of seeking to build nuclear weapons under the guise of its nuclear program, which Tehran says is aimed at the peaceful generation of civilian energy. Senior diplomats from the Iran Six met Iranian officials in Geneva last October to discuss an agreement on a nuclear fuel swap, but the agreement eventually fell through.

"We have been maintaining contacts with the Iranian side on the basis of the position of the Iran Six, which was agreed on three years ago, but it would, most likely, not hurt to reexamine this document as part of preparations for restarting talks, to see to what extent it, in all its parts, accurately reflects the essence of the current situation," Lavrov told journalists.

The draft agreement proposed by former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohammed ElBaradei would have seen Iran send out about 80% of its known 1.5 metric tons of low-enriched uranium to Russia, where it would have been enriched, and to France to convert it into fuel plates for the research reactor in Tehran.

The Iran Six includes Britain, China, France, Germany, the United States and Russia.

The foreign minister added that Iran should comply with all demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

"We think that Iran should make conclusions...and begin to comply with the demands rightly made by the IAEA," Lavrov said.

International pressure on Iran increased in early February when Tehran announced it had begun enriching uranium to 20% in lieu of an agreement on an exchange that would provide it with fuel for a research reactor.

PARIS, September 7 (RIA Novosti) 

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