Iran wants 15 nuclear facilities
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December 13, 2009, Sunday
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Iran needs up to 15 nuclear plants to generate electricity, its foreign minister said yesterday, underlining Tehran's determination to press ahead with work the West suspects is aimed at making bombs.
Manouchehr Mottaki, addressing a security conference in Bahrain, also cast further doubt on a UN-drafted nuclear fuel deal meant to allay international concern about the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions.
"First I think we could just totally abandon the whole thing or we could propose something more moderate, a kind of middle way ... Iran has done that," he said.
Iran has sought key amendments to the proposed deal, under which it would send out a large part of its low-enriched uranium stockpile and receive fuel for a medical research reactor in return.
"We need 10 to 15 nuclear plants to generate electricity in our country," Mottaki said. Iran, the world's fifth-largest crude exporter, currently has one nuclear power plant, under construction by Russia.
Manouchehr Mottaki, addressing a security conference in Bahrain, also cast further doubt on a UN-drafted nuclear fuel deal meant to allay international concern about the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions.
"First I think we could just totally abandon the whole thing or we could propose something more moderate, a kind of middle way ... Iran has done that," he said.
Iran has sought key amendments to the proposed deal, under which it would send out a large part of its low-enriched uranium stockpile and receive fuel for a medical research reactor in return.
"We need 10 to 15 nuclear plants to generate electricity in our country," Mottaki said. Iran, the world's fifth-largest crude exporter, currently has one nuclear power plant, under construction by Russia.
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