Iran approaching nuclear “peak”: Ahmadinejad
TEHERAN - Iran is approaching the “peak” in its nuclear programme and will not yield to Western pressure to halt its activities, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.
Ahmadinejad was speaking in the southwestern town of Bushehr near the site of Iran’s planned first nuclear power plant, being built with Russian help, and predicted the country would have nuclear electricity by this time next year.
“If you (Western powers) imagine that the Iranian nation will back down you are making a mistake,” he said in a televised speech.
“On the nuclear path we are moving towards the peak,” he said without elaborating.
Defying international pressure, Iran has been working on producing its own nuclear fuel, technology the West fears will be used to make atomic bombs. Teheran says its work is peaceful and has refused to stop.
He was speaking two days after Iran received the eighth and final consignment of nuclear fuel from Russia for the Bushehr plant. Teheran has said the plant will start in mid-2008, though past deadlines have slipped.
“Next year at this time ... nuclear electricity should flow in Iran’s electricity network,” he told the crowd.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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