Iran's president (centre) said Iran had advanced its nuclear programme
Posted on 04/09/2009 12:36:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Iran's president has opened the country's first nuclear fuel production plant, making what correspondents say was a defiant speech.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran was open to an offer of fresh talks with world powers, but only if they were based on "justice" and "respect".
He also announced progress on a new generation of centrifuges.
Iran denies Western claims it aims to build a nuclear bomb, saying its nuclear programme is for peaceful ends.
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran says it is the president's defiant political message that is the most significant move of the day.
Mr Ahmadinejad made it clear he did not see any change in US policy towards Iran, and therefore offered nothing in return, our correspondent says.
Instead he told his audience that pushing ahead with the nuclear programme was the only way for Iran to achieve the status in the world that it deserved.
While most international attention is focused on Iran's uranium enrichment activities, the inauguration of the new plant in Isfahan shifts attention to a parallel programme that also has outside observers worried, BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus reports.
Once it is fully operational it could produce sufficient plutonium for two nuclear weapons a year, should Iran choose to separate the plutonium from the reactor's spent fuel, he says.
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Iran's president (centre) said Iran had advanced its nuclear programme
Just behind the word “Fuel” in that picture I think I can see faded words, “Baby Milk”.
...and building nuke power plants as opposed to nuke weapons does that?
I don’t know.. looks like aspirin to me but eyes are pretty bad of late.. lol
This doesn't exactly square with prior statements regarding Israel and the USA. We therefore call BS, Mr. I'monajihad.
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