Obama Acknowledges Iran’s Right to Nuclear Energy

Obama Acknowledges Iran’s Right to Nuclear Energy

NTI, June 3, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday expressed support for Iran’s civilian nuclear power ambitions while calling on the Middle Eastern state to abandon activities that could contribute to nuclear weapons development, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, June 2)…………

……….. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday pledged to continue defying the international community’s attempts at coercion if he is re-elected to office June 12, Agence France-Presse reported.

“If I get elected, I will go to the U.N. and tell the nations there who dare to threaten Iran … hold your hands up,” the first-term president said.

“Due to your resistance, Iran is now a nuclear nation” with “space” capabilities, he added (see GSN, April 15).

The U.N. Security Council has imposed three sets of sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear activities. The body’s five permanent members and Germany hope to negotiate a permanent halt to Iran’s enrichment program in return for civilian nuclear energy assistance and other benefits (Siavosh Ghazi, Agence France-Presse/Google News, June 2).

http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20090603_5010.php

June 4, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive, uranium