TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran on Friday failed to accept a U.N.-drafted plan for it to cut a stockpile of nuclear fuel that the West fears could be used for weapons, instead calling for responses to its own proposal.
The deal, proposed by the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA), has already been approved by the other parties — the United States, Russia and France.
By offering its own proposal, of which no details were available, Iran appeared to be following a well-tested strategy of buying time to avert a threatened tightening of international sanctions.
