President dismisses Western call to halt uranium enrichment
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, April 24, IRNA
President-Press Conference-Nuclear Program
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday dismissed calls by Western states to halt uranium enrichment to produce fuel for power plants.
He said that Iranian nuclear program conforms to Non-Proliferation Treaty and Safeguards Agreement of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and no power can deprive Iran of its legitimate right as envisaged by international treaty.
"Our nuclear program is transparent to the extent that when we managed to enrich uranium to produce fuel at laboratory level, we declared it to the entire world. We have nothing to hide." He said that Iran is an IAEA member state and is paying its membership fees every year, but, the agency did not provide Iran with any technical assistance.
"If the UN nuclear agency creates problems for Iran, Iranian officials would be obliged to rethink continued membership of the agency. If we reach the conclusion that three years of intrusive examination of Iranian sites by IAEA was useless, we may reconsider our membership with the agency," he said.
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