Reply #22: MSRNC: (updated 1205pm) Iran will soon join"nuke technology club"

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THEY've got 110LBS of the shit...twice the amount previously known



Iran says will soon join nuke technology 'club'
Tehran successfully enriches uranium for the first time, ex-president says

Updated: 12:05 p.m. ET April 11, 2006
KUWAIT - Iran “will soon join the club of countries with nuclear technology,” Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday.

Separately, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani said Tehran has successfully enriched uranium for the first time.

The U.N. Security Council has demanded that Iran stop all uranium enrichment activity by April 28. Iran has rejected the demand, saying it has a right to develop the process.

The comments by the Iranian officials came as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, was due to visit Tehran this week for talks on the nuclear standoff.

Officials with his International Atomic Energy Agency have said he is hoping to win at least partial concessions from Iran. IAEA inspectors are currently in Iran visiting two key facilities.

Rafsanjani’s comment, carried by the Kuwait News Agency. was the first disclosure that Iran had successfully enriched uranium since February, when it began research at its enrichment facility in the town of Natanz.

Rafsanjani did not disclose the amount of uranium that Iran had enriched through the facility’s 164 centrifuges, but he said it would put the country in a good position for ElBaradei’s visit.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12267675/