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Forex: U.S. Asks Tehran To Accept Nuclear Offer
11/23/09 05:05 am (EST)

(RTTNews) - The United States has urged Iran to "engage" with the West over its controversial nuclear program, warning that if persuasion does not work, more sanctions are inevitable.

Speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum, Ellen Tauscher, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security said Monday the U.S. would prefer that the Iranian regime followed through on the opportunity to engage.

Tehran "asked for engagement with the U.S. It has it. Now, what is it going to do? Is it going to stand up and say that it is going to take our deal ... or is it going to use some other flimsy excuse to duck," she queried.

However, Tauscher warned that if persuasion did not work, pressure would be the next line of action--hinting a further round of sanctions against the Islamic republic possibly, targeting its oil sector--which would require international support.

Asserting that Washington continued to have "significant" concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions, she added that military action against Iran was not on the table now.

The U.S. official's remarks came soon after Iran's envoy told to the U.N. atomic watchdog--the International Atmoic Energy Agency (IAEA)--that Tehran needed a guaranteed supply of fuel for internationally-supervised research reactor in the capital, while a military chief warned that any attack on its nuclear sites would be sternly dwelt with.

Ali Asghar Soltanieh, envoy to the IAEA, reiterated that his country was ready for holding further talks on supplying fuel for the Tehran reactor. Iran was ready to start negotiations with a positive approach, but because of lack of confidence in the West, it needed to get a guarantee for the timely supply of nuclear fuel, he added.

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of the Revolutionary Guard's Air Force, has warned his command will crush any military action against its nuclear facilities.

Iran earlier partly rejected a U.N.-backed deal that asked it to send most of its stock of low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Russia and then to France for conversion into fuel for the research reactor, but said it was ready for a simultaneous exchange of its LEU inside the country for nuclear fuel to be supplied by the West.