Iran voices tougher line on planned nuclear reactor


  • World
  • Sunday, 18 May 2014

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran appeared to take a harder line in its nuclear dispute with world powers on Sunday by dismissing as "ridiculous" one idea that could allay Western concerns about a planned atomic research reactor.

The fate of the heavy-water reactor at Arak, which has not yet been completed, is one of several thorny issues in talks between Iran and six powers aimed at reaching a long-term deal on Tehran's nuclear programme by an agreed July 20 deadline.

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