Iran to give IAEA more details on N-fuel plan

TEHRAN/VIENNA (AFP) - Iran said on Friday it is preparing to give more details on its response to international proposals for supplying nuclear fuel and expects more negotiations, even as Washington warned the time for talking is over.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran would give the additional details to the UN nuclear watchdog following the initial response it gave to the proposals from three major powers on October 29.
“We have some more details which we have to give to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),” state television quoted him on its website as saying.
“We have three options - enrich the fuel ourselves, buy it directly or exchange our uranium for fuel,” he said.
“They (the IAEA and the major powers) have to choose from these options. Given the nee another round of discussions.”
In his Juma sermon on Friday, cleric Ahmad Khatami asked what guarantee Iran had that it would get the fuel it needs if it shipped out a full 75 per cent of its stocks as proposed under the plan.
“What guarantee do we have that if we deliver our enriched uranium, we will get the fuel?” he asked.
“If they want to harm our rights, our response will be to enrich the fuel ourselves.”
Khatami warned that Iran’s readiness to engage in talks with the US on its nuclear programme was not unconditional.
US President Barack “Obama’s recent declaration that Americans do not intervene in Iranian events is a lie because the United States and its national media do interfere,” he said.
In Vienna, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said UN experts found “nothing to be worried about” during their first inspection of a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran,
In an interview with the New York Times on Thursday, Baradei said inspectors had found “nothing to be worried about” at the site, which is being built inside a mountain near Qom.
“The idea was to use it as a bunker under the mountain to protect things. It’s a hole in a mountain,” ElBaradei told the newspaper.