Iran's
Chief Nuclear Negotiator Saeed Jalili at daylong talks with six world
powers in Istanbul, on April 14, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Burhan
Ozbilici)
A position paper obtained by The Times of
Israel, understood to have been used by Iran’s negotiators at last
week’s technical-level talks with the P5+1 powers in Istanbul, makes
plain the Tehran regime’s unyielding rejection of international efforts
to negotiate safeguards and restrictions that would prevent Iran
attaining a nuclear weapons capability.
Far from indicating Iranian readiness for a
suspension or scaling back of its nuclear program, indeed, the document,
made available by an informed source on condition of anonymity,
includes references to Iran’s expansion plans. “Facing constant threats,
we need a back up facility to safeguard our enrichment activities,” it
states at one point, when discussing the Fordow enrichment facility, the
underground complex built beneath a mountain near Qom where Iran
carries out its 20% uranium enrichment.
A later point, related to the Tehran Research
Reactor (TRR), refers to the need “for at least 4 other research
reactors because of the territorial extent of Iran and the short
lifetime of medical isotopes.” The next clause in the document declares
an Iranian ambition “to sell fuel complexes to other countries.”
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