Julian Borger The Guardian
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Tehran's ambassador to the IAEA, says time is running out for it to export enriched uranium
Iran warned that international talks planned for next week in Istanbul could be the west's "last chance" to negotiate a deal over Tehran's stockpile of enriched uranium.
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the country's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iran's progress in enriching uranium, and its plans to make its own fuel rods for a reactor, meant it might lose interest in negotiations if next Friday's talks in Istanbul fail.
"It might be the last chance because by installing fuel rods produced by Iran in the core of the Tehran research reactor, probably parliament will not allow the government to negotiate or send its uranium outside the country and the Istanbul meeting might be the last chance for the west to return to talks," Soltanieh told journalists during a visit to France.
