Moscow reiterated on Wednesday the international...

Russia, the United States and France recently sent a letter to Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), clarifying the three governments" positions on Iran"s uranium enrichment.

"The start of this work in Iran does not mean that the three parties will reconsider their proposals. And we are ready to return to them if Iran finds this possible," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

Iran started the production of 20% enriched uranium last Tuesday in the presence of the head of Iran"s nuclear agency and IAEA officials. The country"s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi pledged earlier that Iran would use enriched uranium to produce nuclear fuel solely for domestic purposes.

The Russian diplomat expressed hope that Iran would "understand and accept the attractiveness" of the October 2009 scheme and that things would evolve "towards a compromise."

Under a plan drawn up last October by the UN nuclear watchdog and

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