TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran says it will start producing higher-grade nuclear fuel on Tuesday and add 10 uranium enrichment plants over the next year in a nuclear expansion sure to stoke tensions with the West. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, looks on while attending a news conference in Tehran September 29, [...]
Iran is warning it will produce nuclear fuel on its own if there is no deal to have the West deliver the fuel in exchange for…
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Iran warns West it will make its own nuclear fuel
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said a document apparently showing that Tehran plans to test a trigger for a nuclear bomb is a US forgery. In an interview filmed on Friday with ABC News, Mr Ahmadinejad said the report in the Times newspaper was "fundamentally not true". Mr Ahmadinejad said criticism of Iran’s nuclear programme [...]
Iran will not send its partially enriched uranium abroad to be turned into material for medical research, its foreign minister said Wednesday, rejecting a key plank of a deal designed to ease international fears that Tehran aims to build nuclear weapons.
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