Iran Rejects UN Deal to Enrich Uranium TEHRAN, IRAN (Associated Press) - Iran's foreign minister has ruled out sending enriched uranium out of the country, rejecting the U.N.'s plan to resolve the crisis.

The U.N. offered a deal last month to Iran to take its enriched uranium out of the country and return it as refined fuel rods to solve the impasse over its nuclear program.

"We will definitely not send our 5.3% enriched uranium out of the country," Manochehr Mottaki told the semiofficial ISNA news agency Wednesday.

He offered instead a simultaneous swap of uranium for fuel inside Iran. © Copyright 2010, Associated Press