Iran outlines that nuclear talks will include enrichment, stockpile, and its nuclear needs

The framework agreement for the memorandum of understanding this week can be said to be the "easy part". And that says a lot about how the next phase of talks is going to proceed, considering the circumstances.

That being nuclear discussions between the two sides. And Iran is quick to outline what the key argument points will be when we get to that over the next 60 days. The first will be enrichment. As a reminder, uranium must be enriched i.e. increase its concentration in order to be useful for other purposes.

For commercial usage, the enrichment purity is around 3% to 5% typically and even for medical research purposes it should be up to around 20%. The reality of the situation is that Iran possesses a huge amount highly-enriched uranium - up to 60% purity.

At this level, it takes very ...