Iran in Secret meeting with Turkey to End Nuclear Sanctions

Iran has begun secret negotiations with Turkey and three further countries to submit significant amounts of its uranium stockpile and cease enrichment in swap for an end to international sanctions, the Daily Telegraph reported Thursday. According to the British daily’s statement, the Turkish led contract calls on Iran to ship roughly 1,000 kilograms of its low enriched uranium, as well as its whole 30 kilogram stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium, to a secure location.

In return, France and Russia will give readymade fuel rods for the medical isotope reactor for which Iran says it has been enriching uranium to 20 percent a stage which halves the time needed to produce weapons rating material. In exchange, the international community would agree to end allow that have crippled the country’s economy, the daily said. France, Russia and the United States have been concerned in the negotiations, which began after a gathering between Ahmed Davutoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, and Iranian officials in Bahrain previous this month, the daily statement, cite anonymous diplomatic sources.