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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/world/middleeast/20nuke.htm
Iran Threatens to Back Out of Fuel Deal
[New York Times] David E. Sanger - Iran opened two days of nuclear talks with the U.S., Russia and France on Monday with veiled public threats that it could back away from an agreement to ship more than three-quarters of its stockpile of nuclear fuel out of the country, unless the West acceded to Iranian demands to provide it with new fuel. Although Iran's representatives did not reject outright the idea of sending the country's fuel to Russia and France for further enrichment, its negotiators stopped well short of reaffirming the statements the country made in talks on Oct. 1. In recent days the Iranians have repeatedly suggested that they might not ship the fuel out of the country at all, and would demand that the West sell them new fuel for their medical reactor.