Tehran sets conditions on limiting its nuclear program

Iran's deputy foreign minister said on Saturday that Tehran is prepared to accept certain limitations on its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.

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Tehran is prepared to accept certain limitations on its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, but ending uranium enrichment entirely is nonnegotiable, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht-e Ravanchi said in an interview with Japan's Kyodo News.

"Iran can be flexible on the capacities and limits of enrichment, but cannot agree to stop enrichment under any circumstance because it's essential, and we need to rely on ourselves, not on empty promises," the diplomat added./mehr