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Kamal Kharrazi; We Are Proud Of Our Missiles.(Interview)
Byline: Lally Weymouth
Bush administration worries over Iran are mounting: about its nuclear program, about Iran's murky role in the mayhem of Iraq, about ties to terrorists. What does Tehran have to say for itself? Iran's foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, sat down last week with NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth to address these and other issues. Excerpts:
WEYMOUTH: Is Iran seeking a uranium-enrichment capability solely to fuel nuclear power reactors or also to give your country a nuclear-weapons option?
KHARRAZI: It is solely for producing fuel needed in our power plants. It is not for producing nuclear weapons.
The IAEA does not seem to be persuaded that you are living up to the agreement that you made with the Europeans in the fall of 2003--to stop enriching uranium.
We have suspended the enrichment process, but they are asking us to suspend related activities, by which they mean the production of spare parts. For some time, in an agreement with the Europeans, we stopped manufacturing spare parts. But the Europeans were supposed to work actively to close Iran's file at the IAEA. Since they failed to meet their commitments, we did not find ourselves committed to the agreement.
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