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| Iran Offers to Transfer Nuke Technology |
| 2006-12-17 |
| Alternating bluster with bribery. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday his country was ready to transfer nuclear technology to neighboring countries, nearly a week after Arab states on the Persian Gulf announced plans to consider a joint nuclear program. Ahmadinejad told a top Kuwaiti envoy he welcomed the decision by the Islamic republic's Arab Gulf neighbors to pursue peaceful nuclear technology, state-run television said. ``The Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared to transfer to regional states its valuable experience and achievements in the field of peaceful nuclear technology as a clean energy source and as a replacement for oil,'' state media quoted Ahmadinejad as telling Mohammed Zefollah Shirar, a top adviser to the Kuwaiti emir. Such a technological transfer would be legal as long as it is between signatory states to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, or NPT, and as long as the International Atomic Energy Agency that monitors the treaty is informed of the transfer. The Gulf Corporation Council - made up of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman - said last week it was commissioning a study on setting up a nuclear energy program for peaceful purposes, which would abide by international standards and laws. |
| Posted by:Steve White |