"The president appeared for the first time to drop long- standing conditions Tehran had set, .... "We have no problem sending our enriched uranium abroad," Ahmadinejad told state television. "We say: we will give you our 3.5 percent enriched uranium and will get the fuel. It may take 4 to 5 months until we get the fuel. "If we send our enriched uranium abroad and then they do not give us the 20 percent enriched fuel for our reactor, we are capable of producing it inside Iran," he said.....
The president offered to swap three detained U.S. citizens charged with spying for jailed Iranians in the United States.....
Ahmadinejad's statement on the nuclear issue -- on which Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the last word -- was apparently the first time a top official had publicly accepted exchanging low-enriched uranium for nuclear medicine fuel off Iranian soil.
The White House said if Iran's offer was an "updated" one, Tehran should inform the Vienna-based IAEA...."
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