Kazakhstan has offered to take Iran’s uranium stockpile if the United States and Iran reach an accord on Tehran’s contested nuclear program, UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi told the Financial Times on Friday.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency met with Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana this week.
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The Financial Times said the Kazakh leader had expressed his country’s “openness” to store the stockpile enriched to near weapons grade level.
The estimated 440 kilograms of uranium processed to 60 percent purity is at the center of talks between the United States and Iran on extending the ceasefire in the war unleashed by US-Israel attacks.
