Washington, April 20: The Obama Administration has said that the nuclear fuel swap deal with Iran is still alive after Tehran said that it would talk with the entire UN Security Council to break the impasse.
“We looked at the deal offered last September as being a confidence-building step. Iran has now taken seven months and has really not been willing to respond meaningfully to that offer,” Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P J Crowley told reporters at a daily news conference.
“I think we are still interested in taking that step, but at the heart of it, there was the proposal that Iran would ship out a significant amount of its stock of enriched fuel and there would be an exchange for a corresponding amount of fuel suitable to the Tehran research reactor,” he said.
–PTI