Nuclear Life, Nuclear Death, Nuclear Fog…………
“As thousands of Iranian cancer patients suffer, Iran's deputy chief nuclear negotiator says that upgrading the country's nuclear capability is not only the country's right but also an absolute necessity. Ali Baqeri, who is also a member of the Supreme National Security Council, told reporters Monday that the "uncivilized" behavior of some western countries has left around 850 thousand Iranian cancer patients without required medicines. Their approach, he continued, has left Iran with no choice than to expand its domestic nuclear expertise to accommodate our patient's desperate need for vital medicines. Thousands of Iranian patients, in need of post-surgery drug treatment with nuclear medicine, will suffer if domestic production dries up when a research reactor in Tehran runs out of fuel. The Tehran research reactor, which produces 20 different kinds of radio-medicine for cancer patients, runs on uranium that is some 20 percent U-235 - an enrichment level higher than what is currently produced at Iran's Natanz enrichment facility. Iran has requested the International Atomic Energy Agency to arrange for supplying of the fuel to the country. The West has been pressuring Iran to accept a UN-backed draft deal which requires Iran to send most of its domestically-produced low enriched uranium (LEU) abroad for conversion into the more refined fuel that the Tehran reactor requires to produce medical isotopes……….”
This is the Iranian version as posted by Press TV.
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