IRAN: Nuclear watchdog still hopeful of a deal between Tehran and the West

June 30, 2010 | 7:08 am

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, flatly stated in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times that a once much-touted deal between Iran and the international community on Tehran's nuclear program wasn't going to happen without big changes.

The dormant deal, dubbed the TRR (short for Tehran research reactor), involved exchanging a chunk of Iran's low-enriched uranium stockpile for fuel to power a medical reactor.

But that's not to say there's no possibility of some kind of compromise between Iran and the West on the controversial nuclear program, Amano said. More>>>