Iran has said it should be able to produce fuel for its Bushehr nuclear power plant, a demand that world powers are unlikely to agree to and which may put a July deadline for a deal to end its nuclear standoff with the West in jeopardy. Diplomats from the major powers negotiating with Tehran said Iranian negotiators expressed the demand at the latest talks in May – identifying one reason little progress was made towards a nuclear deal that could end Tehran’s economic isolation. Iran’s ability to produce enriched uranium goes to the heart of a decade-old dispute over its nuclear program as the fuel can be used both to power reactors and – if further processed – to make the core of a nuclear warhead. “They expect to get capacity to fuel Bushehr and that’s unrealistic,” one diplomat from the ‘P5+1’ countries in talks with […]