The world has not yet read the last chapter in the saga of how to deal with Iran's nuclear activity, and the story has reached a new level of suspense. Iran announced that it is not prepared to comply with the basic conditions set down in an agreement regarding its nuclear development, which stated that 1,200 kilograms of uranium would be transferred to Europe – in return, Iran was to have received nuclear fuel.

At this stage of the game, the head of the IAEA is attempting to push a different plan of action, presented in yet another agreement which he helped to draft: The Iranian uranium will be stored by an old-new friend of Iran – Turkey.

Head of the IAEA, Dr. Mohammed El-Baradei, said in a televised interview in the United States, that he did not think the US government would object to the new plan. "The Obama government is comfortable with the new proposal," says El-Baradei, referring to the plan which he believes will be a breakthrough in the "Iranian roadblock, and will move negotiations with Iran forward." El-Baradei pointed out that "Iran has a lot of faith in Turkey." And indeed, while Turkey has reassured Israel that our relationship is stable - during his recent visit to Iran, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said, "The ties between Israel and Turkey are known to all. We will continue to hold ties with the principle of being fair." – Turkey has also been making extremely warm overtures to Iran in the past weeks.

Early on Saturday, the head of the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, Alaeddin Borujerdi, explicitly said that Iran is not prepared to send any of its low-enriched uranium abroad for processing. Borujerdi did acknowledge, however, that the Iran's envoy to the UN, Ali Asghar Soltaneih, was still negotiating with the UN to come up with an acceptable solution.

"We do not want to give part of our 1,200 kilos of enriched uranium in order to receive fuel of 20% enrichment," Alaeddin Borujerdi told the ISNA news agency. "This option of giving our enriched uranium gradually or in one go is over now."

According to El-Baradei, Turkey has not yet agreed to the new idea, since the Turkish ambassador to the UN has not even been informed about it. Nor has the idea been approved of by Iran, though Iran is under intense international pressure to reach some sort of agreement quickly. El-Baradei is aware that time is short, and said, "I am in contact with them [the Iranian government] every single day,” El-Baradei said. “They said they would like to keep it on our territory, but I said that defeats the whole purpose of defusing the crisis. We need to get the material out to eliminate the perception that you could develop nuclear weapons tomorrow.”

How long will the Western nations be prepared to put up with Iran's procrastination and excuses? And when will Israeli lose its patience? At the moment, only time will tell.