Iran and Nuclear Energy

Maybe there is a peaceful way out of this standoff between the West and Iran.

Iran is ready to ask its parliament to ratify an accord allowing UN inspectors to resume snap checks of its nuclear facilities on certain conditions, Iran's embassy in Paris said on Friday.

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The embassy statement linked the new offer to the West accepting its use of "modern centrifuges", proposed by some US and British scientists, which permit only limited enrichment.

"If such guarantees were accepted, Iran would agree to submit to parliament for ratification the additional protocol," it said.

Sounds like Iran is offering an olive branch.

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