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Former US negotiator proposes ways to reach Iran nuclear deal

Former State Department Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Robert Einhorn has written that a comprehensive agreement on Iran's nuclear program can be reached if the P5+1 agrees on Iran's practical need for enrichment.
U.S. special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control, Robert Einhorn speaks during a news conference at the Information Resource Center of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul August 2, 2010.   REUTERS/Truth Leem  (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY BUSINESS) - RTR2GZAO

Iran and six world powers can reach a comprehensive nuclear deal by agreeing on Iran’s practical needs for enrichment, which are limited in the near term; as well as on technical modifications that could be made to the Arak reactor and turning the Fordo enrichment site into a research and development facility, former US nuclear negotiator Robert Einhorn writes in a paper to be released by the Brookings Institution Monday.

“I think of the big issues, Arak is the easiest,” Einhorn told Al-Monitor in an interview last week. "Fordo is hard. But the hardest single issue is enrichment capacity."

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