Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a Tehran’s Friday Prayers Imam, said in his
sermons today that Iran will keep its 20-percent uranium enrichment program
intact [Fars News Agency, 25 May].
“I speak on behalf of the Iranian nation that they will not be held to
ransom,” the influential senior cleric added.
Khatami was referring to a demand by six major powers during the
unsuccessful Baghdad Talks that Iran ends its production of the 20-percent
nuclear fuel. The subject will be one of the key discussion points in Moscow
during the talks in mid-June.
Iran
enriches uranium to the 20 percent purity to provide fuel for Tehran's Research
Reactor, which produces medical isotopes for cancer patients. The country
already has a stockpile of the higher level fuel to feed the reactor for the
next decade.
could not agree more !
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:15 AM
ReplyDeleteYou must be Dariush.
This a classic case of give an inch they take a mile.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't about 20% or even the original 5% but no enrichment.
Now the radiated mullahs claim it was an technical detail regarding the increase to 27% enrichment.
What next I wonder?
Maybe they will come out with some lame excuse and claim the bomb was accidentally produced?