Iran not to cede 'nuclear rights'
Al Jazeera
22 Ottobre 2009
Iran will never abandon its "legal and obvious" right to nuclear technology and will not curb uranium enrichment, Manouchehr Mottaki, the country's foreign minister, has said.
His statement was issued on Tuesday amid talks in Vienna that major powers hopes will lead to restraints on Iran's atomic programme.
Iran won a reprieve from harsher UN sanctions by agreeing in principle at a high-level meeting in Geneva on October 1 to send low-enriched uranium (LEU) to France and Russia for further enrichment into fuel for a reactor that makes cancer-care isotopes.
Talks hosted by the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with delegations from Iran, Russian, France and the US, began on Monday but stalled a day later over Tehran's refusal to deal directly with France.
Speaking from Tehran, Mottaki said: "The meetings with world powers and their behaviour shows that Iran's right to have peaceful nuclear …
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