Israel say Iran's nuclear programme 'completely unacceptable'

Israel has said that the fuelling of Iran's first nuclear reactor is "totally unacceptable" and urged better world pressure to force Tehran to stop any further uranium enrichment. Iranian engineers apparently began loading fuel into the country's first nuclear power plant with the help of Russia on Saturday, mark a milestone in Tehran's development of what it insist is a peaceful nuclear energy program. "It is completely unacceptable that a country that so blatantly violates international treaties should enjoy the fruits of using nuclear energy," Fox News quoted Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yossi Levy, as saying in a report. "The international community should enlarge pressure to force Iran to abide by international decisions and cease its enrichment activities and its building of reactors," Levy added.

Iran has insisted that it would continue to enrich uranium despite a caution from the White House last week, which said that the Bushehr progress underscore that Iran does not need its own enrichment capability if its intentions, as it states, are for a peaceful nuclear program. arlier, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had said, "If the Iranians are genuine in a peaceful program, their needs can be met without undertaking its personal enrichment program, which call into question its motives." However, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said that Iran wants the uranium to supply future power reactors. "The country's large scale need to energy is clear and that is the reason why we want to produce the required fuel ourselves," Mottaki added. (ANI)