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| Ahmadinejad says Iran to install advanced centrifuges |
| 2010-02-17 |
| Amid a White House campaign to drum up support for new anti-Iran sanctions, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Tuesday that world powers would "regret" any moves against the country. "If anybody seeks to create problems for Iran, our response will not be like before," Ahmadinejad told a press conference in the capital city of Tehran. "Something will be done in response that will make them [the world powers] regret [their action]," he said. "However, we prefer they steer towards cooperation [with Iran]." The remarks came as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was wrapping up her visit to the Middle East, where she stopped in Qatar and Saudi Arabia to seek the backing of the Arab world's heavyweights against Tehran's nuclear drive. Iran says its nuclear program is directed at the civilian applications of the technology and has called for the removal of all weapons of mass destruction around the globe. The West, however, accuses the country of seeking military means in its pursuit. The United States has spearheaded efforts to slap new UN Security Council sanctions against Iran, after the country announced the production of the first batch of 20-percent enriched uranium to make fuel for a medical research reactor in Tehran. At the conference, President Ahmadinejad said negotiations over a nuclear fuel deal with France, Russia and the US were not over. He said Iran still welcomed a deal that would see a "simultaneous" swap. "The proposal for the fuel exchange is not closed yet. We have announced that we will exchange within a just framework," he said. "We are ready for an exchange even with the United States. The US can come and give us their 20 percent fuel and we will pay them if they want, or we can give them 3.5 percent fuel." "But the swap should take place simultaneously and we will put our fuel under the supervision of the [UN nuclear] agency in Iran." Iran is currently under three rounds of UNSC sanctions resolutions, which call on the country to abandon its enrichment work. Under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), however, Iran is entitled to continue its drive for civilian purposes. President Ahmadinejad boasted that Iran has adapted to the sanctions, which, he said, have put the country on a path of constant progress. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 " Advanced "centrifuges... invented by someone else and shipped in from somewhere else because the Moslems arent too good at making ball point pens yet. But they are waving their checkbooks at Germany and the Russians...so maybe they get the instruction books next. Inshallah... |
| Posted by: Titus 2010-02-17 09:31 |
| #1 WORLD NEWS > MULLEN: IRAN IS BECOMING A NUCLEAR CAPABLE COUNTRY [Nuke weapons-capable, notsomuch nucenergy]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-02-17 01:22 |