BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran and six world powers have exchanged proposals in a tug of war over Tehran's nuclear program.Today's back-and-forth in Baghdad focused largely on whether the current enrichment level of Iran's uranium production is a red line the U.S. and other powers will not permit for fear it could become warhead-grade material.
According to a Western diplomat involved in the talks, negotiators for the six world powers presented a package combining new and old proposals offering Iran medical isotopes, some nuclear safety cooperation and potentially spare parts for civilian airliners. In exchange, Tehran would stop its 20 percent enrichment levels as a first step,
The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the negotiations more candidly.
Iran has tentatively agreed to allow U.N. inspectors into a military complex suspected of conducting nuclear arms-related tests in an attempt to head off July 1 sanctions on its oil exports to European markets. But diplomats from the six world powers refused to consider the sanctions as a relevant part of the impasse.
An Iranian official predicts talks will continue Thursday.
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