AFP – 08 Oct 2014 – Iran’s Khamenei reiterated on Wednesday his country’s “red lines” in negotiations with world powers over its controversial nuclear program due to resume next week in Vienna.
Talks have stalled over the issue of Iran’s future capacity for uranium enrichment and the timetable for the lifting of international sanctions against Tehran…
An info-graphic published on Khamenei’s official website outlined 11 points to be observed by negotiators before Iran will sign an accord.
One of the stipulations includes “the absolute need for Iran’s uranium enrichment capacity to be 190,000 SWU (Separate Work Units)” — close to 20 times its current processing ability.

The US and other Western states, however, want Iran to decrease its enrichment capability.
“Fordo, which cannot be destroyed by the enemy, must be preserved،” the text on Khamenei’s website said, referring to the uranium enrichment site built under a mountain 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Tehran.
“The work of nuclear scientists should in no way be stopped or slowed،” the text said, adding that Iran had the right to pursue nuclear “research and development”.

The Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, disclosed last month that Iran had failed to meet an August 25 deadline to provide information on five points meant to allay fears it was developing nuclear weapons.
Eight days of intensive talks at the end of September between Iran and the P5+1 group on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York also fell short of any final agreement.