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Iran: Rising Stakes in the Nuclear Talks

Oct 23, 2009 | 16:50 GMT

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Summary

Iran is supposed to respond by Oct. 23 on whether it will agree to further enrich its low-enriched uranium in Russia and France, but delaying tactics are already being employed. In any case, Iran's final answer is not likely to satisfy the West and Israel. And when the deadline comes, it will be important to watch not only how the United States and Israel respond. The stakes are rising for Russia as well.

As expected, Iran is setting the stage to reject a deal to process its low-enriched uranium abroad....

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