Iran has notified the UN nuclear watchdog...
from hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Salehi told IRNA that "we could not wait any longer for the needs of our sick people who require radio isotope medicines." The Tehran reactor for which the fuel is needed makes medical isotopes.
Salehi, however, said that Tehran will stop the enrichment program if a deal on the enrichment of uranium can be agreed with the six world powers negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program.
A UN-brokered plan approved by the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany envisages Tehran exporting most of its low-enriched uranium to Russia for further enrichment and its conversion into fuel rods for the research reactor in France.
Tehran has missed the deadline for response to the deal, prompting Western powers to demand tougher UN Security Council sanctions.
MOSCOW, February 8 (RIA Novosti)
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