The United States has said that a nuclear fuel plan offered to Iran will not be changed after Tehran called for the UN-brokered deal to be reviewed. Speaking in Morocco on Monday, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, urged Tehran to fully accept the deal which had already been agreed to in principle, saying "we are not altering it". "This is a pivotal moment for Iran," she told reporters after conferring with senior government officials from several Gulf nations, Egypt, Morocco and Jordan. "Acceptance fully of this proposal ... would be a good indication that Iran does not wish to be isolated and does wish to co-operate with the international community." Earlier on Monday, Iran asked for a technical review of the plan designed to restrain its potential for making a nuclear bomb. The UN plan requires Iran to ship about 70 per cent of its uranium abroad for conversion into fuel before being sent back to a Tehran reactor monitored by the UN nuclear watchdog. The US and other Western countries are concerned that Iran may be enriching uranium for use in nuclear weapons, but Tehran insists its programme is strictly for research and energy production.
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