Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki rejects Western media reports about a new US offer for a fuel swap deal with Iran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has rejected Western media reports about a new US offer for a fuel swap deal with Iran, a report says. Mottaki told IRNA on Friday that the Islamic Republic has not received any new offers from the United States for the exchange of fuel and such reports were “games” played by Western media. His remarks were made in reaction to a Thursday report in the French newspaper Le Monde in which the daily wrote about a new US offer to transfer Iran's low-enriched uranium to Russia for further enrichment. “If Iran speaks of a fuel swap, it is in fact reflecting its domestic need… When the subject of a fuel exchange deal was primarily brought up, we considered our own needs for uranium. Therefore, the subject of a deal is bidirectional and falls within its own framework,” the Iranian foreign minister further explained. Mottaki underlined the Islamic Republic's stance on any fuel swap deal with the West and pointed out any such deal will be acceptable only within the framework of the Tehran Declaration.Mottaki: Iran Didn’t Receive Offers from US on Fuel
