SCI/TECH: Iran to respond to European proposal after US elections, page 1

Iran will wait till after the U.S. elections November 2nd. Before they respond to a European offer of aid and equipment in trade for the stopping of uranium enrichment.

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VIENNA (AFP) - Iran still has room for diplomatic maneuvering and will certainly wait until after the November 2 US elections to respond to a European offer to avoid possible UN sanctions and receive nuclear technology by indefinitely suspending uranium enrichment, analysts predicted.

They also said the deal had no chance of success if the United States did not back the British-French-German offer as the European promises, which also include non-nuclear items such as backing Iran's joining the World Trade Organization, cannot be met without US support.

Britain, France and Germany presented Iran Thursday with a deal to receive valuable nuclear technology, including a light-water reactor which would produce less fissionable material than the heavy-water reactor Tehran wants to build, if the Islamic Republic indefinitely suspended all uranium enrichment activities, according to a confidential document prepared by the Europeans ahead of the talks and obtained by AFP.

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The offer made by the British, German, and French governments will not succeed unless the U.S. gives its okay to the plan. In particular Iran�s entry into the WTO would require U.S. support. As talks continued, both sides have expressed optimism. And view that they are at the beginning of the endgame with a lot of work left.