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Iran Rejects Curbs on N-Program
Arab News
TEHRAN, 30 September 2003 — Iran yesterday played down the second discovery here by UN nuclear inspectors of highly enriched uranium, while rejecting the imposition of any restrictions on its civil atomic program. The Islamic republic’s representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency told state television that traces of enriched uranium found by the UN body in August at the Kalaye Electric Company near Tehran came into the country on imported equipment.
He explained that given the level of enrichment was over 50 percent, the traces could have only come from overseas because “such enrichment requires a number of centrifuges to be working over a long period of time” — in other words something that he asserted has not taken place in Iran.
The government spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh told reporters that Iran would not accept any restrictions on its bid to generate nuclear power, rejecting international demands for tougher safeguards on Teheran amid suspicions the program is merely a cover for nuclear weapons development. “The Islamic Republic of Iran rejects any restrictions on the peaceful use of nuclear technology,” he told reporters. “Up to now, we have cooperated with the IAEA beyond our commitments” under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, he said.
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| Earth, a planet hungry for peace |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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