Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, discusses the ongoing talks in Vienna with France, Russia, the U.S. and the IAEA. He says his nation is willing to send fissile material abroad to be processed for medical purposes back in Iran. (Samuel Kubani / AFP/Getty Images / October 21, 2009)
Iran Keeps Obama Waiting on Nuclear Deal -- Time Magazine
President Barack Obama will know by Friday whether he got the deal on Iranian nuclear material on which he has staked his engagement strategy. A third day of talks in Vienna ended inconclusively Wednesday, with the Iranian delegation requiring consultations with their government back in Tehran before signing off on a detailed plan to ship three-quarters of its current stockpile of enriched uranium to Russia for conversion into harmless reactor fuel. The parties to the deal have been given until Friday to report back, although reports from Vienna suggested that Tehran was pushing back against some of the terms being set for the deal by the U.S. and its partners — specifically over the timetable and scale of Iran's uranium delivery to Russia.
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