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‘West’s confrontationists losing momentum in nuclear row’: Iran
TEHRAN, Jan. 22 (MNA) -- Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Ali Akbar Salehi says there are two lines of thought in the West on the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.
“One of these camps is acting with a little more wisdom and has understood that they should pursue an interactive policy toward Iran, and the other camp is influenced by international Zionism and (they) are trying to implement a confrontational policy and to make problems for everyone,” Salehi said on Thursday.
His remarks came in response to the recent meeting of the 5+1 group (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany) on Iran’s nuclear issue.
Diplomats from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany held a meeting last Saturday, January 16 over Iran’s nuclear program but could not reach an agreement.
“We had a very sober assessment,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters. “It is inconclusive in the sense that we did not make any decisions right away,” he added, AFP reported.
Salehi predicted that the wise group will prevail in the end, and the nuclear dispute, which has been fabricated by the West, will be resolved over time.
“Our policy is a policy of interaction,” he stated.
He went on to say that Iran has asked foreign countries to provide the nuclear fuel for the Tehran research reactor, although the country is capable of producing the fuel itself.
Iran has offered to swap its low enriched nuclear fuel for 20 percent enriched nuclear fuel for the Tehran research reactor in stages on the southern Iranian island of Kish.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Salehi said that bringing the Bushehr nuclear plant on stream is a priority for Iran and expressed hope that it would become operational in late March.
Meanwhile, the director of Russia’s state nuclear corporation announced on Thursday that Moscow will start up Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant this year.
“2010 is the year of Bushehr,” Rosatom director Sergei Kiriyenko told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Moscow.
Salehi also announced that over the past month, Iran’s nuclear research institution has manufactured two important machines, namely the CAT scanner and the body scanner.
He also said that there is some other news that he will announce at the proper time.
“One of these camps is acting with a little more wisdom and has understood that they should pursue an interactive policy toward Iran, and the other camp is influenced by international Zionism and (they) are trying to implement a confrontational policy and to make problems for everyone,” Salehi said on Thursday.
His remarks came in response to the recent meeting of the 5+1 group (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany) on Iran’s nuclear issue.
Diplomats from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany held a meeting last Saturday, January 16 over Iran’s nuclear program but could not reach an agreement.
“We had a very sober assessment,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters. “It is inconclusive in the sense that we did not make any decisions right away,” he added, AFP reported.
Salehi predicted that the wise group will prevail in the end, and the nuclear dispute, which has been fabricated by the West, will be resolved over time.
“Our policy is a policy of interaction,” he stated.
He went on to say that Iran has asked foreign countries to provide the nuclear fuel for the Tehran research reactor, although the country is capable of producing the fuel itself.
Iran has offered to swap its low enriched nuclear fuel for 20 percent enriched nuclear fuel for the Tehran research reactor in stages on the southern Iranian island of Kish.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Salehi said that bringing the Bushehr nuclear plant on stream is a priority for Iran and expressed hope that it would become operational in late March.
Meanwhile, the director of Russia’s state nuclear corporation announced on Thursday that Moscow will start up Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant this year.
“2010 is the year of Bushehr,” Rosatom director Sergei Kiriyenko told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Moscow.
Salehi also announced that over the past month, Iran’s nuclear research institution has manufactured two important machines, namely the CAT scanner and the body scanner.
He also said that there is some other news that he will announce at the proper time.
