Fri, Jun 18, 2004 - Page 6 News List

Iran could resume uranium program

RIFT With the IAEA on the verge of issuing a tough rebuke, President Mohammad Khatami said his country no longer had a `moral commitment' to European countries

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Under the terms of the deal last October between Iran and the foreign ministers of Germany, the UK and France -- at a time when the US was urging a harder line on Iran -- the Europeans offered to sell nuclear technology to the Iranians if they agreed to stop enriching uranium.

Iran, while asserting its right to enrich uranium, said it would suspend the activity.

A recent report by the agency cast doubt on Iran's claims. It said the Iranian government was continuing to make parts for centrifuges, the machines that enrich, or purify, uranium by spinning it.

The agency's director-general, Mohamed ElBaradei, said it was "premature to make a judgment" about whether Iran's program was military.

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