A nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable and patience is limited on finding a solution to a nuclear fuel deal with the Islamic Republic, Germany"s Foreign Minister said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. Major powers want Iran to accept a U.N.-brokered deal that would see it ship low-enriched uranium abroad for reprocessing and defuse nuclear tensions with the West. Iran has yet to give a formal reply. "We are open to dialogue with Iran and we want to find a solution through dialogue but at the same time ... our patience is not going to last forever," Guido Westerwelle told a joint news conference with International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei. "Frankly, a nuclear-armed Iran is not acceptable," Westerwelle added. When asked what he meant by limited patience in the context of talks with Iran, Westerwelle said: "I was being serious against the backdrop of sanctions." The West fears Iran"s nuclear programme is aimed at atomic bomb-making capability. Iran denies this.
