[Iran Press TV Latest] An Iranian official says the country has full knowledge of nuclear fuel production and now seeks to expand its activities by exporting fuel.
Despite mounting international pressure, Iranian scientists have acquired the desired know-how to produce nuclear fuel without receiving outside help, deputy head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) Abdallah Solat-Sana told IRNA on Monday.
Speaking at Tehran's third Nuclear Technology Exhibition, Solat-Sana said international pressure had prevented different countries from offering Iran a nuclear license and therefore "it is only natural for them [other states] to show reluctance in purchasing nuclear fuel from Iran."
The Iranian official went on to say that the best means to gain international trust for Iran's nuclear products was "to firstly use domestically-produced nuclear fuel in Iranian nuclear plants."
Iran's first Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP) in the central city of Isfahan is slated to produce pellets of uranium oxide that could be used to fuel Arak IR-40 heavy-water reactor and Darkhovin IR-360 reactor within 2 and 6 respectively.
Regarding the Bushehr plant, Iran's first nuclear reactor built with Russian help, Solat-Sana said in its initial agreement with Moscow, Tehran had accepted to power the plant with Russian fuel."
"We do not wish to provide nuclear fuel for the Bushehr plant ourselves, as we believe in having international ties which will enable us to both purchase and sell nuclear fuel," the Iranian official concluded.
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Iranian scientists have acquired the desired know-how to produce nuclear fuel without receiving outside help,
Lying bastard they want us to 'forget' all of Russias help in building their plant (Did they ever pay yet")
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Europeans walked out on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speech to a United Nations racism summit Monday when he accused Israel of being the "most cruel and racist regime."
The conference had already been badly undermined when the U.S. and at lest seven other Western nations decided to boycott the conference over concerns that it would be used as a platform for attacks against Israel.
The boycott left Ahmadinejad as the only head of state in attendance, and his speech produced the kind of language that many Western countries and Israel had feared.
Ahmadinejad, who has in the past cast doubt on the Nazi Holocaust, accused Israel of occupying Palestinian territories "on the pretext of Jewish suffering."
He was quoted on Sunday by Iran's state broadcaster as saying "the Zionist ideology and regime are the flag bearers of racism."
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned the advocates of "freedom of speech" about the sincerity of their conviction. I think we've been through this before, starting with Boris the Lop Eared Serbian Troll, in fact...
After Israeli advocates staged a walkout in the midst of the Iranian president's speech at the UN anti-racism summit, President Ahmadinejad criticized the "so-called advocates of freedom of information." "Why is it that the so-called advocates of freedom of information fear hearing other people's opinions," the Iranian president asked. Probably because they've heard them before, and found them tedious. It really is hard to improve on Julius Streicher. Freedom for you to speak doesn't bring with it a concommitant requirement that we listen. We're just as free to dismiss your opinion as soon as you begin speaking as you have been to dismiss ours since 1979.
Speaking at a news conference in Geneva after addressing the United Nations conference on racism, President Ahmadinejad described the countries which boycotted or walked out of the UN anti-racism summit as "arrogant and selfish." "In our opinion, this is arrogance and selfishness and the root cause of the world's problems," President Ahmadinejad told the Monday press conference. He just made a speech calling for an entire nation to be wiped off the face of the earth and he's complaining that people didn't sit rooted to the spot listening to him, and he criticizes them for being "arrogant and selfish"?
"The subject of this conference is anti-racism and the advocates of racism did not attend this summit," he added. Some of us are of the opinion that they did.
The Iranian president's speech at the Durban Review Conference at the UN European headquarters was disrupted several times by protesters who shouted slogans and held placards before they were escorted out of the conference room by security guards. I thought the clown wigs kinda ruined the whole effect...
President Ahmadinejad's anti-Israeli remarks also caused 23 European Union delegatees to walk out of the conference room.
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ION FREEREPUBLIC > EGYPTIAN FM TO RUSSIA: EGYPT IS NOT A SMALL COUNTRY, CAN CONTROL ITS OWN TERRITORIES[vee Hezbollah + IRAN].
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Following Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's address at the United Nations anti-racism conference in Geneva, during which he called for the eradication of Israel, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released on Monday a statement slamming Ahmadinejad's cynical manipulation of the conference.
"I deplore the use of this platform by the Iranian president to accuse, divide and even incite. This is the opposite of what this Conference seeks to achieve. This makes it significantly more difficult to build constructive solutions to the very real problem of racism," the statement read.
"It is deeply regrettable that my plea to look to the future of unity was not heeded by the Iranian president. At my earlier meeting with him, I stressed the importance of the Conference to galvanize the will of the international community toward the common cause of the fight against racism," it continued.
Ban Ki-moon also noted that he "reminded the President that the UN General Assembly had adopted the resolutions to revoke the equation of Zionism with racism and to reaffirm the historical facts of the Holocaust respectively."
"We must all turn away from such a message in both form and substance," he said.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband also commented on the speech in a statement, calling the remarks on Israel "offensive, inflammatory and utterly unacceptable."
"That such remarks were made using the platform of the UN's anti-racism conference is all the more reprehensible," continued Miliband.
"The UK delegation, along with many others, rightly walked out of President Ahmedinejad's speech because such hate-filled rhetoric is an intolerable abuse of free speech and of the conference," he said.
Miliband also used the platform to justify the presence of his country's delegation at the conference, saying that while "we will not accept an event that degenerates into racism and intimidation," there is danger in leaving "the international stage only to those, like President Ahmedinejad, who would take global efforts against racism backwards."
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has questioned the advocates of "freedom of speech" about the sincerity of their conviction. 
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Following Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's address at the United Nations anti-racism conference in Geneva, during which he called for the eradication of Israel, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released on Monday a statement slamming Ahmadinejad's cynical manipulation of the conference. 
