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Gold9472
08-31-2006, 06:23 PM
US: Iran moving to dangerously perfect uranium conversion

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Deutsche Presse Agentur
Published: Thursday August 31, 2006

New York- The United States charged Thursday that Iran now has the capability to perfect the complex high-tech application of uranium enrichment, which could lead to the manufacture of nuclear weapons. The remarks by US Ambassador John Bolton at UN headquarters followed a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)^that Iran failed the Thursday deadline set by the UN Security Council to suspend all uranium related activities.

He called Iran's capability to achieve the technology a "red flag" in the nuclear non-proliferation regime.

The IAEA said Iran's Natanz nuclear plant has a second 164-machine cascade to enrich uranium. Once Iranian scientists have learned how to enrich uranium, they can multiply the cascade a hundred or thousand times, Bolton said.

"The method they are using is a complex technology with a lots of ways that can break down before you achieve the capability to produce at mass production level," Bolton told reporters.

"The Iranians are going through the difficulties, continuing to perfect, to learn (from) their problems and correct the problems," he said. "Once it is perfected, you take what you learned, and multiply it thousands of times."

"The issue is Iran is allowed to continue after they have perfected it," he said.

Bolton said the IAEA report provided "ample evidence" of Iran's defiance of the international community, which suspects Iran of concealing its nuclear weapon programme.

He said the UN Security Council would not discuss the report until European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana meets with Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani.

While it refused to suspend its uranium conversion activities as demanded by the UN, Iran said it wants more negotiations to settle the dispute.