Iran ready to resume nuclear research

[USPatriot8320]

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said it would resume research of nuclear fuel on Monday but there was no confirmation it had done so by the end of the day. The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said the world was running out of patience in the dispute with Tehran over its nuclear program, which the West says is a cover for developing atomic weapons. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, all nuclear powers, have sent strong messages to the Islamic republic to halt plans for the research and resume talks with the<FORM class=yqin action=http://yq.search.yahoo.com/search method=post></FORM>European Union, a senior U.S. official said. "Iran will today resume nuclear fuel research as scheduled," Iranian government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham told a news conference early on Monday.A Foreign Ministry spokesman had said Iran would restart work when the <FORM class=yqin action=http://yq.search.yahoo.com/search method=post></FORM>International Atomic Energy Agency was ready to supervise the removal of seals it put in place two years ago. However, by Monday evening Western diplomats close to the IAEA said it had no reports from its inspectors indicating that any enrichment works had begun or any seals had been broken. There was no word from Iranian officials by midnight there. Iran has not made public what exactly it plans to resume, but nuclear research and development might include the manufacture and assembly of centrifuges used for uranium enrichment, the most sensitive part of the nuclear fuel cycle. It could also include some small-scale enrichment tests.


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[Merlin]

The last thing this world needs is an Iran with nuclear weapons. Although it`s unlikely Iran would openly attack another country with nukes they could give a warhead to terrorists to do their dirty work for them. Thats why force must be used against Iran if no other way of preventing an Iranian bomb is possible.

[ConspiracyBuff]

Merlin-Force yes, American force,nah. We have enough to worry about in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our military is spread out all over, not that we dont have the manpower, and it would pobably not entail many soldiers, mostly just dropping bombs, but this would not be smart for us, US that is. The Islamic world already has hatred toward us, not all, but the extremists and those are the ones we ought to be concerned about. Let other UN nations step up and take some responsibility in the world, America shouldnt be the only one enforcing policy.