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Iran Seeking Weapon-Grade Uranium, Cheney Says
From Tuesday, March 25, 2008 issue.
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday accused Iran of developing a uranium enrichment program to produce material that could be used in a nuclear bomb, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, March 24). “Obviously, they’re … heavily involved in trying to develop nuclear weapons enrichment, the enrichment of uranium to weapons-grade levels,” Cheney told ABC News. The vice president did not say what evidence supports his assertion on Iran, which insists that its nuclear program is intended only to produce electricity. President George W. Bush said last week that Iran had publicly stated its intention to develop a nuclear weapon. Analysts quickly refuted that statement and the White House backed off the claim (Agence France-Presse/Google News, March 25). Meanwhile, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has said that Israel could help to defuse international tensions over Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons development by signing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Interfax reported yesterday. “Egypt honors its commitments under the NPT, whose universal nature can be achieved through the inclusion of states that have not yet signed it, for example Israel,” Mubarak told a Russian newspaper in an interview scheduled for publication today. “The possession of nuclear weapons is a threat from any side both to the Middle East and the entire world.” He said that Iran must be completely open about its nuclear activities in order to resolve questions over the nation’s nuclear ambitions and called on Israel to join a comprehensive ban on weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East (Interfax, March 24).
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