Iran readies uranium for nuke: Diplomats
Iran is preparing large amounts of uranium for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons, days before its promise to freeze all such activities takes effect, Western diplomats said on Friday.
"The Iranians are producing UF6 (uranium hexafluoride) like hell," a non-US diplomat on the governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told Reuters. "The machines are running."
Iran denied the information, which was confirmed by multiple diplomatic sources in Vienna.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "This is a sheer lie. I strongly reject it. In contrary, Iran is preparing itself to suspend production of UF6," Iran's top IAEA delegate Hossein Mousavian told Reuters in Tehran.
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