Iran will not consider proposals by the...

Under a plan drawn up last October by the UN nuclear watchdog and approved by the Iran Six - the U.S., Russia, Britain, China, Germany, and France - the Islamic Republic was to ship out its low-enriched uranium to Russia for further enrichment and subsequently send it to France where it would be made into fuel rods.

Tehran stalled and then rejected the plan, suggesting it could consider a simultaneous swap of its low-enriched uranium for 20%-enriched uranium, but that the exchange should be simultaneous and would have to take place on its own territory.

MOSCOW, February 17 (RIA Novosti)