Washington/Tehran, April 13 -- During its recent talks with Iran in Islamabad, the US had given a sweeping proposal; a 20-year moratorium on all of the Islamic Republic's uranium enrichment activities, coupled with additional restrictions designed to prevent it from rebuilding its nuclear capacity over the long term.
According to officials familiar with the talks, Washington also pushed for the complete removal of Iran's existing stockpile of highly enriched uranium from the country, which proved to be the biggest impasse of the negotiations and Tehran flat out declined.
According to Axios, Iranian negotiators countered the US proposal with a far shorter timeline - described by sources as a "single-digit" number of years - and rejected th...