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Iran Activates More Equipment to Enrich Uranium
The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency has said Iran has started using a second set of 164 centrifuges linked in a cascade, or string of machines, to enrich uranium to up to 20 percent at its Natanz pilot fuel enrichment plant. Another cascade...
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Accuses Western Powers of Double Standards Concerning Nuclear Non-proliferation
The U.S., British and French delegations walked out of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly Hall in New York where a review conference on nuclear non-proliferation is under way after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Western powers of...
Russia Ready to Help Nigeria Build a Nuclear Power Plant
Russia has indicated its readiness to help Nigeria to builda nuclear power plant as soon as feasibly possible. The relevant agreement has been reached at a meeting in Moscow between Nigerian Science and Technology Minister Alhassan Bako Zaku and head...
Iran to Enrich Its Own Uranium to 20%
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Tehran will enrich its own uranium to a level of 20% for its research reactor. “We have asked them [Western countries] for 20% enriched uranium. They could have supplied it in the framework of...
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran Rejects Threats And Urges More Talks
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Tehran rejects threats as part of a continuing campaign of psychological warfare against it and calls for more talks on the nuclear issue. In a televised speech Friday night, Ahmadinejad said the West had launched...
Russia Close to Finishing Construction of Iran’s Nuclear Plant
Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko has said Russia is close to finishing the construction of Iran’s first nuclear power plant and is currently making final adjustments. Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said on Monday that the launch...
Iran Lays Out Conditions for Uranium Deal with West
The official IRNA agency has said Iran could agree to a UN-brokered deal to send its uranium for processing in Europe if it receives enriched uranium for its research reactor first. The agency said, citing top presidential adviser Parviz Davoudi, that...
Iran Adds Conditions to Nuclear Cooperation Deal
Iran has given its formal response to a U.N. plan for processing its nuclear material. Details remained sketchy, but it appears Tehran has put a few conditions on what appeared to be a take-it-or-leave-it deal. Iran’s envoy to the International...
