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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:56 PM
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Iran Determined to Be Nuclear Fuel Exporter
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran, accused by Washington of developing nuclear weapons, is determined to become one of the world's suppliers of nuclear fuel, a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday.

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, last year proposed a five-year moratorium on the creation of new nuclear fuel production facilities around the world, which would include Iran's uranium enrichment facilities.

But Sirus Naseri, a senior member of Iran's delegation to the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said such a moratorium would be tantamount to handing the world's few existing nuclear fuel suppliers a monopoly.

"The five-year moratorium proposed by ElBaradei is equal to exclusivity of supply," Naseri told Reuters in a telephone interview. <snip>

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7502522

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