AEOI Chief: Iran Entitled to Enrich Uranium to 90% Grade
Sun Apr 13, 2014 5:39
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930124000768

TEHRAN (FNA - FARS NEWS AGENCY)- Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of
Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi underlined that the country is entitled to
enrich uranium to the level of 90%, and said Tehran plans to build four new
nuclear plants with Russians' help.

"Firstly, we believe that we are entitled to any right that any NPT
(Non-Proliferation Treaty) and (International Atomic Energy) Agency member
has, which means that enrichment (of uranium) from 1% to 90% is our right,"
Salehi said in a televised interview on Sunday.

He said that Iran has accepted to limit its enrichment program to the level
of 5% only in a voluntary move based on the Geneva deal inked between Tehran
and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany)
sealed in November.

Elsewhere, Salehi announced Iran's plans to build four other nuclear power
plants in the coming years, and said the construction work for the
establishment of Iran's second power plant would start this (Iranian) year
and the same trend would continue for the construction of three more plans
every other year.

He said that Iran seeks to build its next nuclear power plants through joint
cooperation between the country's experts and their Russian counterparts.

Iran is under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down
West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment, saying the demand
is politically tainted and illogical.

Iran has so far ruled out halting or limiting its nuclear work in exchange
for trade and other incentives, saying that renouncing its rights under the
NPT would encourage the world powers to put further pressure on the country
and would not lead to a change in the West's hardline stance on Tehran.

Iran has also insisted that it would continue enriching uranium because it
needs to provide fuel to a 300-megawatt light-water reactor it is building
in the Southwestern town of Darkhoveyn as well as its first nuclear power
plant in the Southern port city of Bushehr.

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