Iranian Lawmaker: Iran Resolved to Continue 20% Uranium Enrichment.

Iranian Lawmaker: Iran Resolved to Continue 20% Uranium Enrichment.(Fars).A ranking member of the Iranian parliament said Tehran is determined to continue uranium enrichment to the purity level of 20% as an indispensible right of the Iranian nation and it would never exchange this right with the world powers' content.
The remarks were made by Member of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mansour Haqiqatpour on Saturday.
"Irrespective of agreement or disagreement of the Group 5+1 (the US, Britain, France, Russia and China plus Germany), the Islamic Republic of Iran will not surrender its right to achieve nuclear technology and produce 20-percent enriched uranium, which is needed for radio medicines," he added.
In mid-September, Iranian nuclear experts, in an unprecedented move, utilized their utmost knowledge, endeavor and ambition to enrich the uranium to the purity level of 20% for the Tehran research reactor to defuse the Western sanctions against Tehran, said a senior Iranian nuclear official.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the 56th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and after a meeting with the IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano, Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi said when the country faced sanctions and failed to provide the 20 percent enriched uranium needed by the Tehran research reactor from the world market, through endeavors of Iranian technicians, it managed to change chains of centrifuges, thus doing 20 percent enrichment and providing necessary fuel for the Tehran reactor.
Abbasi said that Iran has gained significant nuclear achievements over the past one year and the achievements have been despite sanctions issued against Iran by a few western states on the false hope that they are crippling.
He said that the main part of Iran's enrichment is at the level of 3.5 percent and added that Iran will determine the amount of the enriched uranium based on its needs in the future.
Abbasi noted that the 20 percent enrichment in Iran is for production of radio medicine while certain people try to link it to non-peaceful goals.
Israel and its close ally the United States accuse Iran of seeking a nuclear weapon, while they have never presented any corroborative document to substantiate their allegations. Both Washington and Tel Aviv possess advanced weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear warheads.
In the meantime, in September, Iran announced that it plans to synthesize 20 kinds of radiomedicine inside the country, stressing that its scientists are capable of supplying the 20%-enriched uranium needed for the production of such drugs.
"Iran has gained the necessary preparedness to produce 20 radiomedicines and we will provide the 20% (enriched) fuel needed for the production of these medicines this year," Deputy Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) for Planning, International and Parliamentary Affairs Massoud Akhavan-Fard told FNA in September.
In addition to the Tehran research reactor which has long been used by radioisotope production, Iran also plans to build four other research reactors in the other parts of the country, he added.Read the full story here.