Top Diplomats Grapple With Iran Over Half-Built Nuclear Reactor
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Envoys from Iran and world powers, seeking to break a decade-long diplomatic deadlock, grappled over a partly built reactor that could be configured to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Iran’s reluctance to suspend construction of its Arak heavy-water reactor remained one sticking point along with reducing stockpiles of 20 percent enriched uranium. A Western diplomat who asked not to be named because the negotiations are delicate said the U.S., the European Union and Iran have worked for months on a proposal and the French objections were overdone.