On the security side, the report said the Iranians were seeking a relaxation of controls on goods exported to Iran as well as security guarantees.
The Iran nuclear negotiations have already failed once. An agreement to suspend Iran's uranium enrichment activities announced with much fanfare in Teheran in the presence of the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany in October 2003 fell apart after Iran interpreted the deal loosely and continued some uranium enrichment activities. The three European nations negotiated a tougher agreement the second time around.
Iran's public posture has stiffened in recent weeks. On March 5, Hassan Rowhani, the midlevel cleric who is in charge of the nuclear negotiating team threatened that if Iran's nuclear program was referred to the UN, Iran would resume enriching uranium.
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