By IRNA,
Berlin : Western powers have to make ‘new, realistic proposals’ to Iran, if they are seriously interested in resolving the impasse over Tehran’s nuclear program, the Berlin-based newspaper junge welt said in an editorial on Thursday.
‘There can be no negotiated solution in the atomic dispute unless the six powers (G5 plus 1) abandon their maximalist and uncompromising stance and make new, realistic proposals. These should focus only on the atomic program …,’ the daily said.
It reiterated the G5 plus 1 (Russia, China, US, France, Britain and Germany) had to also accept Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
The paper stressed none of the proposals of the G5 plus 1 should be discriminatory against Iran or tarnish its sovereignty.
In reference to Tehran Declaration signed by Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on fuel swap — to supply 20 percent fuel for Tehran medical research reactor in return for 3.5 percent enriched uranium — it lashed out at the six powers for refusal to accept the swap offer.
President Lula da Silva said that U.S. President Barack Obama has asked him to mediate to arrange the fuel swap. The International Atomic Energy Agency is obliged to provide the member states with fuel to power reactors operating for humanitarian purposes.
Tehran medical reactor installed since early 1970s by the U.S. is producing isotopes and medicines to cure patients suffering from cancer.
Iran is signatory to Non-Proliferation Treaty and also signed the IAEA Safeguards Agreement.
Cameras of the Vienna-based United Nations nuclear agency are installed over all Iranian nuclear sites monitoring them 24 hours.