Iran insists on right to enrich uranium at home

IRAN will only consider a compromise offer from Russia on its nuclear programme if the deal acknowledges its right to enrich uranium on Iranian soil, a government has said.

“As we said before, we want to have enrichment inside Iran ... and any proposal which is based on this principle will be studied,” government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters yesterday.

“We are studying the Russian proposal based on this framework. The government will never give up its principles.”