Iran Tuesday denied claims that its responsive uranium enrichment work has been hit by technical problems and stressed that its nuclear programme has not been debilitated by the Stuxnet computer worm. Also rejecting allegations by Western powers that Iran lacks the know-how to create nuclear fuel plates, atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi was obstinate the Islamic republic would be producing fuel for a research reactor by September 2011. Salehi "denied Western media information that enrichment has stopped in Iran," the official news agency IRNA reported. "Iran will never pay notice to lies in Western media on its progressive path in the nuclear issue," he told IRNA.
Salehi appeared to be respond to comments by Olli Heinonen, former deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who said on Monday that technical troubles were slowing down Iran's uranium enrichment. Heinonen, addressing an occasion in Washington organised by the Arms Control Association, said the problems stemmed probably from a flawed design for centrifuges. The centrifuges are operating at only 60 percent of ability and Iran for some reason has removed hundreds of the machines, he said. "This point out there is a problem."
Iran in February started sanitization uranium to 20 percent purity after a deadlock in a nuclear fuel swap deal drafted by the UN atomic watchdog and aimed at given that fuel for the Tehran medical research reactor. Salehi said on Tuesday the enrichment process was enduring apace. "By the month of Shahrivar next year (September 2011), we will make fuel for the reactor," he was quoted as saying by IRNA. Salehi also frequent previous denials by Iranian officials that an extraordinary computer worm, Stuxnet, had in any way debilitated Iran's nuclear programme. "This virus bumped into a dead-end, a wall, and the enemies could not accomplish the goals they had hope for in the past one and a half years," he said.
Salehi appeared to be respond to comments by Olli Heinonen, former deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who said on Monday that technical troubles were slowing down Iran's uranium enrichment. Heinonen, addressing an occasion in Washington organised by the Arms Control Association, said the problems stemmed probably from a flawed design for centrifuges. The centrifuges are operating at only 60 percent of ability and Iran for some reason has removed hundreds of the machines, he said. "This point out there is a problem."
Iran in February started sanitization uranium to 20 percent purity after a deadlock in a nuclear fuel swap deal drafted by the UN atomic watchdog and aimed at given that fuel for the Tehran medical research reactor. Salehi said on Tuesday the enrichment process was enduring apace. "By the month of Shahrivar next year (September 2011), we will make fuel for the reactor," he was quoted as saying by IRNA. Salehi also frequent previous denials by Iranian officials that an extraordinary computer worm, Stuxnet, had in any way debilitated Iran's nuclear programme. "This virus bumped into a dead-end, a wall, and the enemies could not accomplish the goals they had hope for in the past one and a half years," he said.
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