Iran will pursue its nuclear drive in a "normal fashion" and will produce itself the fuel necessary for its Tehran medical reactor, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Monday.
Iran
will
pursue its nuclear drive in a "normal fashion" and will produce
itself the fuel necessary for its
Tehran
medical reactor, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Monday.
"Nuclear activity will continue in a normal fashion," Mottaki told a
news conference as he wrapped up a brief visit to
Lebanon
. "Concerning
the fuel needed for the
Tehran
reactor...
Iran
will
produce it itself."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told AFP Friday that
Iran
was
ready to strike a uranium enrichment deal if the
U.S.
and
the West respect the Islamic Republic and stop making threats.
Iran
is
under three sets of U.N. sanctions for refusing to suspend enrichment and risks
a further round after rejecting a U.N.-brokered deal to send its low-enriched
uranium abroad to be further refined into fuel for the reactor.
Enrichment lies at the heart of fears over
Iran
's
atomic work as the process to make nuclear fuel can also be used to make the
fissile core of an atom bomb in much higher purifications.
Iran
insists its nuclear program is solely for civilian purposes and rejects Western
suspicions it is covertly trying to develop a bomb.
Earlier this month the
U.S.
dismissed an offer by
Iran
to
swap on the Iranian
island
of
Kish
400
kilograms of low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel enriched to 20%, in what
would be the first phase of a deal with world powers.
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