Report says U.S. may OK more centrifuges in Iran nuclear talks
The Obama administration has sweetened its offer to Iran in ongoing nuclear negotiations, saying it might accept Tehran operating 4,000 centrifuges, up from the previous 1,300, according to a semiofficial Iranian news agency.
The Mehr news agency also said Monday that Iran and the six world powers seeking to negotiate a nuclear deal remained divided over how much uranium-enrichment capacity the Middle East nation should be allowed to maintain, and how to lift punitive sanctions from its economy.
With a deadline for negotiators a month away, the two sides still differ on how to deal with two nuclear sites that have stirred international concern, the Arak heavy-water nuclear reactor and the Fordow underground enrichment facility, according to Mehr.
Iran and the six world powers — France, Britain, the United States, Germany, Russia and China — are seeking a deal that would ease international sanctions on Iran's economy as long as it accepts limits designed to prevent it from gaining bomb-making capability.
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