Moscow - Iranian and Russian authorities have wound up their talks on nuclear weapons program wherein Kremlin offered to conduct uranium enrichment for Iran, this was probably the last chance to avoid sanction. However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has still hope, he does not label the talks a failure.
 
Other countries feel it is the last chance for Iran to stave off international sanctions over suspicions that it has a covert nuclear weapons program.

National Integration Assembly (NIA) Chairman Dr. Raj Baldev said,in New Delhi " The efforts to sort out the Iranian issue are progressive and should not be taken as a total failure. There are still hopes in the untiring efforts by the Russian authorities to persuade Iran.  No country should question the Iran's right to  produce nuclear fuel domestically, but how the world should keep the balance is a matter of time. Any rush step may prove dangerous and should be avoided."

On Monday, the initial round of consultations between top national security officials from both countries did not come to a common point and made no progress.  However, on Tuesday the officials from Russian Foreign Ministry and atomic energy agency held another round of healthy discussions with the Iranian side.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said:
 
"I would be cautious about using the term 'failure' or 'setback' while the negotiations continue."

The United States and the European Union took this talk as a final chance to ease international concerns over Iran's nuclear program to avoid sanction have backed Russia's offer. But Iran insisted on maintaining a domestic enrichment effort.

The press report says: The head of the Iranian delegation in Moscow, Deputy Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Hosseinitash, took a cautious view that their discussion and talk may not be taken as a failure in anyway, whether they may reach any consensus or not. He said that Iran did not intend to abandon its right to produce nuclear fuel domestically.

However, Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki meanwhile, reaffirmed that Tehran would continue its nuclear research, even if it accepts Russia's enrichment offer.

According to AP, the Experts said that Iran would like its scientists to have access to the Russian enrichment facility, and hope to retain the right to conduct a part of the enrichment process at home.

In fact, IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei recently suggested that the international community might have no choice, but to accept small-scale enrichment on Iranian soil as a condition for Tehran to agree to move its full program abroad.

But Iranian presidential spokesman Gholamhossein Elham, while welcoming the IAEA proposal on small-scale enrichment inside Iran as a "positive step" toward resolving the nuclear dispute said that any restrictions on Tehran's right to access nuclear energy were unacceptable.

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