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US and Partners Prepare Modest Offer to Iran

Weeks of deliberations among the United States and its fellow negotiators have produced an offer to Iran very similar to the package Iran rejected last summer, casting doubt on chances for breaking the long stalemate over Iran’s nuclear program, Barbara Slavin reports for Al-Monitor.

Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akhbar Salehi listens to U.S. President Barack Obama as he addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 21, 2011.  REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akhbar Salehi listens to US President Barack Obama as he addresses the UN General Assembly in New York, Sept. 21, 2011. — REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi

Weeks of deliberations among the United States and its fellow negotiators have produced an offer to Iran very similar to the package Iran rejected last summer, casting doubt on chances for breaking the long stalemate over Iran’s nuclear program.

The “refreshed” proposal includes spare parts for Iran’s aging Western jetliners — a perennial carrot  and assistance with Iran’s civilian nuclear infrastructure but no specific promise of sanctions relief, Al-Monitor has learned.

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