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Iran’s president gives green light to uranium enrichment
Published: 07 February, 2010, 13:10
Edited: 12 February, 2010, 20:57
April 2008, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visiting the Natanz uranium enrichment facilities south of Tehran.
(6.6Mb) embed videoIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has instructed his country's atomic agency on Sunday to start enriching uranium to 20%, reports Russian news agency Itar-Tass, citing Iranian television.
“I have requested vice president Salehi to start work on production of 20% fuel at centrifuges,” Ahmadinejad informed.
Iran needs 120 kilos of enriched uranium to the level of 19.75% for the Tehran research reactor. Iranian officials have repeatedly stated that if the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) does not provide the Tehran research reactor, which is intended for the production of medicine for 800,000 people, with adequate fuel, Iran would start production on its own.
According to a framework agreement worked out by the IAEA last October, the IAEA suggested to the Islamic Republic that it should export 1.2 tons of its low-grade uranium to Russia for enrichment and for subsequent production of nuclear fuel in France.
Producing enriched uranium is the international community's core concern over Iran's nuclear program, since it can be used to make nuclear weapons. Iran continues to claim its program is for peaceful purposes only.
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This is a bold statement, and message, to the West. Roughly translated is says 'Iran is a regional power, Iran will act like a regional power, and you will show Iran the respect a regional power deserves'. The US, UK, and Israel seem incapable of recognising the above and seem more interested in confrontation than negotiation.
@you say this because you forgot the slogans of imperialism & liberalism i will remind you " making an unbelievable heaven on the earth (with our leadership) the freedom freedom freedom free" and i say a "big lie" for despoiling the world .a big lie for destroying the soviet union for injustice, for new colonialism. yeah this is the war of ideologies you should not just look at economy crisis (indeed us is the cause) . look at the slogans that are under their own feet. and the important point is that the people of the world are aware.
Ahmadinejad needs to stop playing with Hillary and Obama before things get out of hand. Making sport of them and the "on again, off again" playful games are not a way to follow their mandates or keep them happy. They may want to "reset" everything with Iran, like with Russia and live happily ever after.