State nuclear corporation Rosatom is closely monitoring the US-Iran talks, Aleksey Likhachev says
Russia stands ready to help remove Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, Aleksey Likhachev, CEO of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has said.
Tehran’s nuclear program remains a key sticking point in talks with Washington. US President Donald Trump has demanded that Iran dismantle its nuclear infrastructure and hand over its uranium, a proposal Tehran has rejected. Moscow has repeatedly offered to host the material. While Iran has signaled openness to such an idea, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier this week that the US had rejected it.
In an interview with corporate newspaper Strana Rosatom released on Saturday, Likhachev said the company remains ready to assist, stressing that beyond the technical complexity of removing the stockpile, trust is central to any deal – and that Russia can provide both.
“Only Russia has positive experience interacting with Iran. In 2015, at Iran’s request, we already removed enriched uranium… We are ready to assist with this issue today as well,” he said, calling it one of the most sensitive aspects of the talks.
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