IRAN COVERT URANIUM ENRICHMENT FACILITY

C O N F I D E N T I A L COPENHAGEN 000425 SIPDIS STATE FOR ISN/RA:RNEPHEW, EUR/NB, EUR/RPM E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/29/2019 TAGS: IR KNNP MNUC PARM PREL DA SUBJECT: IRAN COVERT URANIUM ENRICHMENT FACILITY REF: STATE 100153 Classified By: (U) Ambassador Laurie S. Fulton; reason 1.4 (b, d) ¶1. (C) Pol-EconCouns delivered reftel demarche September 29 to Aron Bonanno, Head of Section in MFA's Security Policy Dept, and Lene Hothes of MFA's Iran desk. Bonanno replied that Denmark is in total agreement with the USG; Iran must live up to its international obligations. MFA is eager to hear a readout of the October 1 Geneva meeting between the P5 1 and Iran, ideally ahead of Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller's meeting with members of the Danish parliament the next day. Denmark agrees that the Geneva meeting must include discussion of the nuclear issue, and sees no reason for Iran not to provide full transparency if its nuclear is purely civilian as it claims. ¶2. (C) Bonanno noted that the Secretary had welcomed Iran's acceptance of inspections at the new site, and hoped such inspections would occur as soon as possible. ¶3. (C) Denmark is prepared to support additional sanctions if Iran fails to live up to its obligations, Bonanno continued. Denmark's preference would be for UN sanctions, but FM Moeller supported having the EU start working on identifying where sanctions could be most effective. ¶4. (SBU) The UK embassy contacted us to say it had instructions to coordinate a joint demarche on this topic with us and the French, and that the French embassy had similar instructions. We explained that we had no such instructions, had already delivered reftel demarche and had received a very positive answer from Bonanno. FULTON