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No Plans to Halt Nuclear Work, Iranian Official
Iran will not halt uranium enrichment as demanded by a UN Security Council resolution, Reuters quoted Iran’s top nuclear official on Sunday as saying.
The UN Security Council passed a resolution on December 23, 2006, imposing sanctions on Iran after it refused to suspend nuclear work. The document gave Iran 60 days to halt uranium enrichment which Western powers fear will be used to military ends.
“We believe that the resolution has serious legal and executive problems,” Ghomal-Reza Aghazadeh, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said Sunday. “We have said from the beginning that Iran will not implement it.”
Other Iranian officials have also ruled out suspension of Iran’s nuclear work.
A high-placed Iranian source said earlier international inspectors had installed surveillance cameras at an underground facility where Iran plans to install 3,000 additional centrifuges for uranium enrichment. Meanwhile, a source in the IAEA reported that Iran had not complied with all requests on surveillance cameras at the underground facility.
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