The head of Iran's parliamentary nuclear committee said during the latest nuclear talks in Oman that the United States presented an 8-page recommendation that took the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) "back to zero.�
In an interview with Tasnim News Agency, Ebrahim Karkhaneh said that during the Nov. 9 trilateral talks between Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, US Secretary of State John Kerry and former�European Union�foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton a proposal was recommended by the United States that would turn�Iran�s nuclear program�into nothing more than �decoration.�

Karkhaneh claimed that with the recommendations, the United States had �thrown off the equations in the negotiations� and called it a �nuclear Turkmenchay treaty,� referring to the 1828 treaty in which Iran signed over territories to Russia after military defeats. According to him, �without a doubt� Iran�s negotiators would not agree to these terms.

While Karkhaneh did not specify the number of centrifuges recommended by the United States, he said that it was a �decorative spinning of centrifuges.� Iran currently has 9,400 spinning centrifuges. Iran Nuclear, a website close to former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, reported that in the Oman talks,�Iran was offered 4,500 centrifuges. This has not been verified by any other source and the website in general has had a hard-line view with respect to the negotiations.

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