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Iran ready to share nuclear science with other nations: president

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Feb 16, IRNA -- Iran rejects nuclear monopoly and is ready to share peaceful nuclear knowledge with other nations based on IAEA rules and regulations, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.

He made the remarks in a ceremony held to celebrate the unveiling of new peaceful nuclear progresses.

“Iranian nuclear progresses are at the service of the Iranian nation to the international community; Islamic Republic is committed to continue the way of martyred nuclear scientists; hegemonic powers’ oppressive behavior toward other nations is historical and has not been already stopped in the modern age; arrogant powers have always used science as a tool against humanity and impeded the way of other nations to achieve scientific progress; peaceful nuclear energy is not a danger but the owners of world most dangerous nuclear arsenals introduce it as a danger,” president Ahmadinejad added.

He pointed to some reports about equipment of some countries to nuclear bombs in the recent years by the hegemonic powers, adding that nations won’t stand more oppression and discrimination in the international community.

Iran’s president asked hostile countries to change their approach toward Iranian nation and noted that Iran is ready to share its peaceful nuclear achievements with other peace-seeking countries based on international rules and regulations.

“Iran wishes for a day in which it would be able to provide all its nuclear needs on its soil,” President Ahmadinejad concluded.

President Ahmadinejad on Wednesday unveiled the first 20-percent fuel plate for Tehran Research Reactor in Tehran as well as the first home-made nuclear fuel road which were loaded into the heart of the Reactor.

President in the ceremony, held in the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, placed the first 20-percent fuel plate into the Reactor.

The AEOI experts briefed the President on operation of the facility during his inspection of the facility.

Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi, Vice-President, the AEOI President Fereydoun Abbassi, and senior presidential advisor Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi were accompanying the President at the event.

The plate was just part of a series of nuclear achievements of Iranian scientists which were unveiled by the president.

The president also unveiled several radio medicines produced by Iranian specialists for prevention and treatment of hard-to-cure diseases.

Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

Tehran has dismissed the West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing those sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians’ national resolve to continue the path.

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