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Purveyor

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Tue Aug 28, 2012, 12:15 PM Aug 2012

Iran Will Never Stop Uranium Enrichment: Envoy

By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:01 EDT

Iran “will never stop” its controversial uranium enrichment, the country’s envoy to the IAEA said on Tuesday, on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement ministerial meeting in Tehran.

“Our enrichment activities will never stop and we are justified in carrying them out, and we will continue to do so under IAEA supervision,” Ali Asghar Soltanieh told reporters.

“We will not give up our inalienable right to enrichment,” he said.

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On Iran’s intent to continue enriching uranium, Soltanieh noted that the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the IAEA’s statutes made no explicit mention of levels of enrichment.

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Iran Will Never Stop Uranium Enrichment: Envoy (Original Post) Purveyor Aug 2012 OP
If Israel gives up its nuclear weapons, I suppose that might be negotiable. leveymg Aug 2012 #1
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