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November 10, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/world/middleeast/09iran.html

Iran Ignoring Efforts to Salvage Nuclear Deal

[New York Times] David E. Sanger - The Obama administration, attempting to salvage a faltering nuclear deal with Iran, has told Iran's leaders in back-channel messages that it is willing to allow the country to send its stockpile of enriched uranium to any of several nations, including Turkey, for temporary safekeeping. But the overtures made over the past two weeks have all been ignored, administration officials said. Members of the administration said over the weekend that they had all but lost hope that Iran would follow through with an agreement reached in Geneva on Oct. 1. "It's evident that they simply cannot bring themselves to do the deal," one senior administration official said Sunday. Mr. Obama's aides say he is still willing to wait until year's end before concluding that Iran is rejecting his offers of diplomatic engagement.

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