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Iran's president has denied his government violated International Atomic Energy Agency rules after disclosing the existence of a new nuclear-enrichment facility to the UN watchdog.
Speaking in Tehran on Saturday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country had in fact informed the IAEA a full year in advance of the deadline set by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
"If you want to build the building, you can do that. If you want to lay the pipes, you can do that. Six months before you start processing itself ... then you need to inform the IAEA so it is prepared to begin its inspection programme," Ahmadinejad said.
"Now is this the right thing or the wrong thing to do?" he asked. "It is not a secret facility. If it was, why did we inform the IAEA a year ahead of time?"
Even as he insisted that Iran, as a sovereign state, did not need to report to Washington, Ahmadinejad said that Tehran would allow IAEA inspectors to visit the site.
Marc Vidricaire, an IAEA spokesman, told Al Jazeera on Friday that Tehran had notified the body of the second enrichment plant's existence in a letter earlier this week.
Iran was previously known to have one enrichment plant at Natanz, in central Isfahan province, which is under daily surveillance by IAEA inspectors.
“If they wanted it for peaceful nuclear purposes, there’s no reason to put it so deep underground, no reason to be deceptive about it, keep it a … secret for a protracted period of time,”
This week, Iran announced putting an additional 6,000 centrifuges on-line at its underground Natanz uranium enrichment plant and opening a new facility for processing uranium ore into yellowcake, the first step in the uranium enrichment process.
Originally posted by Lillydale
Something just doesn't sound right to me.
I am suddenly having flashbacks of Bush saying "They will not let our inspectors into Iraq." on the left side of the tv while on the right side were the inspectors in Iraq, inspecting things in Iraq.
Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency of the plant's existence in a letter to IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday just as six world powers and Iran prepare for rare talks on October 1 on its disputed nuclear drive.
Originally posted by lernmore
reply to post by warrenb
Iran tells IAEA it is building 2nd enrichment plant
Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency of the plant's existence in a letter to IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday just as six world powers and Iran prepare for rare talks on October 1 on its disputed nuclear drive.
While it seems they may have mentioned "opening a new facility", they still kept it totally hidden, and didn't even announce its existence until last week.
Originally posted by warrenb
See how the media plays you and then everyone jumps on the bandwagon.
This is all a game to get everyone to demonize the Iranians, preparing peoples minds for a possible conflict. If there is war, well shucks they deserve it for lying but they didn't lie.
Do you see now? Are you eyes open?
[edit on 27-9-2009 by warrenb]
completely agree...
Read this article in The Times yesterday...(*Warning Murdoch Controlled news)
www.timesonline.co.uk...
IMO Israel will get the green light to attack/provoke Iran now that it seems Russia may not protect them!?
edit to add:hope web-bot was wrong!!!!
[edit on 27-9-2009 by slinkey10]
Originally posted by Whatthehell?
So how's the inspections in Israel going?
Whoops. Asking Israel to do the same is "anti-semitic" apparently.
Now, I'm not saying there isn't a double standard, in that Israel won't show their facilities either, and we have like 2,600 nuclear devices here in the U.S., which is another story altogether, but the evidence keeps adding up that Iran really wants to become a nuclear "superpower" as well.