There is a one hundred percent guarantee that Iran’s first nuclear power plant, officialy launched yesterday, will be used only for peaceful purposes, a top Russian official said. “Of course there is a one hundred percent guarantee, because this guarantee is not one formulated by Moscow but by objective fact,” Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Interfax news agency. He said that the fact that Russia had delivered the fuel for the plant and would take back spent fuel for reprocessing showed that all non-proliferation rules applied to the plant. Iran is to formally launch the Russian-built plant in the southern port city of Bushehr on Saturday in a major landmark for its controversial nuclear drive. Russia has been building the plant in Iran since the mid-1990s but the project has been marred by a series of delays and the issue is hugely delicate amid the standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme. source: AFP
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has promised a global response if his country is attacked, in an interview with Qatari daily Al-Sharq published on Saturday. “Our options will have no limits… They will touch the entire planet,” he said in reply to a question about Tehran’s reaction in the event of such an attack. Iran’s arch-foes the United States and Israel have never ruled out military strikes against Tehran to halt its nuclear programme which they and other Western powers suspect is aimed at making weapons. Tehran denies the charge, saying its atomic programme has purely peaceful goals. “I believe that some think about attacking Iran, especially those within the Zionist entity (Israel). But they know that Iran is an indestructible bulwark and I do not think their American masters will let them do it,” Ahmadinejad said. “They also know that the Iranian response will be hard and painful,” he added. The UN Security Council in June slapped its fourth set of sanctions on Iran over its refusal to halt its uranium enrichment work. source: AFP | |
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