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US push for zero uranium enrichment a ‘non-starter’ for Iran
Reporting from Doha, QatarThey’re not going to stop enriching uranium – this is the sticking point, this is why we’re at an impasse.
Initially, the Americans were open to the idea of Iran reducing its uranium enrichment levels from 60 percent, where it is right now, to 3.67 percent, which was agreed upon in the 2015 nuclear deal.
That figure of 3.67 percent was agreeable to everybody: the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the European countries, and the United States at that time. And the Iranians went back to that figure, knowing that it was going to be something that would be acceptable.
But the US, since they started negotiations with Iran – they had five rounds of discussions – somewhere at the halfway mark of these talks, we started hearing from particularly Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy, that enrichment at any level was not acceptable.