Iran: 20% enrichment, our legal right - Gayo Lues
“Producing 20-percent-enriched uranium is our legal right, although, we are not interested in making use of this right,” Ahmadinejad stated in an interview with the French news channel, France 24 in Tehran on Wednesday.
The Iranian president noted that under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regulations, countries wielding 20-percent enriched uranium should have supplied Iran without preconditions.
“Based on the agency’s regulations, we informed them of our needs and based on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, those countries that possess 20-percent-enriched uranium, should supply us with it, but they didn’t,” he said.
Ahmadinejad said had the countries in question offered to provide Iran with the uranium, it would have helped the process of negotiations and been a step forward in confidence-building.
He pointed out that Iran had no choice but to start enriching uranium up to 20 percent when it was denied access to it.
The Iranian chief executive also said that the enrichment process is by no means a step towards making a bomb.
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source: Presstv.ir
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