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Irans Foreign Minister says his country may agree to ship just part of its stockpile of low enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment as per a U.N.-drafted plan.
Mondays comments by Manouchehr Mottaki is the first official indication that Tehran may at least partly agree to a U.N.-drafted plan to ship much of Irans uranium to Russia for further enrichment.
Mottaki said Iran is weighing between the U.N.-drafted plan or buying its own enriched uranium.
In either case,Iran would continue to enrich its own uranium as well,he said.
The West sees the U.N.-brokered plan as a way to ease concerns that Iranian labs could push the uranium enrichment to higher,weapon-grade levels.
Iran claims it only seeks peaceful nuclear energy.
