Another Year of Iran………….
“The BBC Tehran correspondent Jon Leyne, reporting from London, says Mr Ahmadinejad's announcement crosses a significant red line. Iran says it wants to supply a research reactor with highly enriched uranium following the breakdown of the international deal to provide fuel for it. But some Western analysts say Iran does not possess the technical know-how to make fuel rods for the reactor, our correspondent says, and Western countries fear this could be a stepping stone towards the manufacture of weapons-grade material……….”
“Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has instructed Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation to begin enriching uranium for use as nuclear fuel, casting doubt on the prospect of a deal with the West. Ahmadinejad's comments on Sunday, carried on state television, were directed at Ali Akbar Salehi, who heads the atomic energy body and who was sitting in the audience at the time of the speech. "I [ask] Dr Salehi to start work on the production of 20 per cent fuel using centrifuges," Ahmadinejad said…..…”
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