By VOA News
Some Iranian lawmakers are saying Iran will
reject a U.N.-backed proposal for Iran's uranium to be enriched abroad.
The semi-official ISNA news agency quotes a prominent conservative lawmaker,
laeddin Boroujerdi, saying Iran will not send away any of its 1,200 kilograms of
enriched uranium.
France, Russia and the U.S. are urging Iran to trade about 7 percent of its
low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, which would assuage international fears
the stockpile would be used to make a bomb.
Another conservative lawmaker, Hossein Naqvi Hosseini, said Iran could not trust
the international promises, therefore it could not accept such an agreement.
He said Iran could buy uranium directly from another country or enrich it
themselves.
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The Development and Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons
Today eight countries
are possessing nuclear weapons. The five nuclear weapons states
United States, Russia (former Soviet Union), United Kingdom, France
and China, are the only countries allowed to have nuclear weapons
according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) from 1970. All
members of the United Nations except Israel, India and Pakistan have
signed the NPT.
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Russia's president Dmitri Medvedev says if Iran
"takes a less constructive stance" in international talks, the possibility of
further sanctions could not be excluded.
In an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, Mr. Medvedev said sanctions
usually represent a step in a "dangerous direction." But he said they may be
necessary, nonetheless.
The International Atomic Energy Agency says it has not yet heard a formal
response to the proposal from Iran.
The U.N. Security Council has hit Iran with three sets of sanctions for its
refusal to stop enriching uranium, a process that can be used to make nuclear
weapons.
Iran says its atomic program is aimed at generating electricity.
Israel's deputy foreign minister says Israel will attack Iran if it continues on
a path of nuclear defiance. Danny Ayalon told Britain's Sky News that Iran has
expressed no desire to halt its nuclear program.
He accused Iran of conducting stalling tactics in hopes of "buying time" on its
uranium enrichment work.
Israel perceives Iran as its greatest threat in part due to remarks by Iran's
president calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
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