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News > Iranians Consider Nuclear Freeze Temporary

Negotiations between Iran and the EU-3 don't seem to offer much hope for keeping the mullahs from developing their nuclear program:

According to Mr Rohani, Iran's offer to suspend uranium enrichment would only apply for the duration of talks with the EU.

"We are talking months, not years," the cleric said.

So if Iran thinks the freeze will only last as long as they're in negotiations, what's the point? Most likely, to make the U.S. look bad.

For his part, Mr Rohani said the "whole world had turned down America's calls".

"We have proved that, in an international institution, we are capable of isolating the US. And that is a great victory," said Mr Rohani, who heads Iran's top security body.

He added that the US representative at the IAEA meeting in Vienna "was enraged and in tears, and everybody said that the Americans had failed and we had won".