Posted on 12/12/2009 3:40:55 AM PST by rdl6989
MANAMA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Iran needs up to 15 nuclear plants to generate electricity, its foreign minister said on Saturday, underlining Tehran's determination to press ahead with a programme the West suspects is aimed at making bombs.
Manouchehr Mottaki, addressing a security conference in Bahrain, also cast further doubt on a U.N.-drafted nuclear fuel deal meant to allay international concern about the Islamic Republic's atomic ambitions.
"First I think we could just totally abandon the whole thing or we could propose something more moderate, a kind of middle way ... Iran has done that," he said.
Iran has sought key amendments to the proposed deal, under which it would transfer stocks of low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad and receive fuel in return for a medical research reactor. Tehran says it could produce the fuel itself if it is not able to obtain it from abroad.
The proposal to farm out most of Iran's LEU reserves is aimed at minimising the risk of the country refining the material to the 80-90 percent grade suitable for a weapon.
Iran, the world's fifth-largest crude exporter, says its nuclear programme is aimed at generating electricity so that it can export more of its gas and oil.
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I don’t have a problem with 15 nuclear power plants in Iran I just want those plants to be withing U.S. embassies. Power lines can leave the 15 U.S. embassies that has nuclear power plant. Sounds good to me. Iran wants electricity and the U.S. wants nuclear stability.
Let me rephrase that. Let us put 15 U.S. embassies in Iran and each embassy can have a nuclear power plant installed. Each power plant can in turn provide power to Iran. This arrangement would result in Iran abandoning its nuclear ambitions, or submitting to carpet level destruction.
The only US Embassies that should be in Iran would be on US military bases.
It probably would be better if some nation gave them 15 thermonuclear devices delivered by rockets. That should give them enough “energy”.
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