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'Uranium enrichment to continue'

February 24, 2005 11:37 IST
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Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi has said Tehran was determined to continue uranium enrichment, says the official IRNA news agency.

"Other countries can not stop Iran's uranium enrichment program," Kharazi was quoted as saying after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

Talks were on with Britain, Germany and France to remove European apprehensions about Iran's nuclear programme, and Iran would evaluate the negotiations in mid-March. The talks would go on only if the result of the evaluation was positive, he said.

Blast near Iran N-site

Reiterating that the Islamic Republic had no intention to produce nuclear weapons, the foreign minister criticized the US, saying all its plans in the Middle East were aimed at helping Israel.

"Washington is trying to make up for its mistakes in Iraq and in the region. Now, even EU members do not provide the US policies with all-out support," Kharazi said.

Abandon hostile policy, Iran tells US   

Iran suspended its uranium enrichment activities in  November following EU incentives, but subsequently the two sides differed over key issues such as Iran's building of a nuclear reactor.

Iran rejected the EU proposal to abandon plans to build a heavy-water reactor in exchange for a light-water research reactor provided by Europe.

Washington, accusing Iran of developing nuclear weapons secretly, has warned of preemptive strikes.

 

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