" ... The commander of Iran's ground forces, Brig. Gen. Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan, said the drill would be conducted by Iran's army, in conjunction with some units of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in order to improve "defensive capabilities," Press TV, the English-language, state-run media outlet reported Sunday.
The report follows comments by Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Saturday, challenging Western nations to decide by the end of this month on counter-proposals Tehran has floated to an internationally brokered nuclear-fuel deal. In the counter-proposals, Iran has said it would agree to swap the bulk of its low-enriched uranium for higher enriched uranium, but in small batches and on Iranian soil. Iranian officials have also named Turkey as a possible venue to swap the fuel. Iran has separately suggested it would be willing to simply buy enriched uranium from a third party...."
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