Iran Admits Lying About Nuclear Program
Charles Johnson
Sun Mar 6, 2005 at 6:17 pm PST • Views: 158
The mullahs must be feeling pretty secure to make this statement: Iran Admits Keeping Nuclear Program Secret.
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran confirmed Sunday that it initially developed its nuclear program in secret, going to the black market for material, and blaming its discretion on the U.S. sanctions and European restrictions that denied Iran access to advanced civilian nuclear technology.
Iran now openly admits that it has already achieved proficiency in the full range of activities involved in enriching uranium — a technology that can be used to produce fuel for nuclear reactors or an atomic bomb.
Washington has accused Tehran of using its civilian nuclear program as a cover to build a nuclear bomb. Iran denies this, saying its nuclear program is merely geared towards generating electricity.
“True. There was secrecy,” former president Hashemi Rafsanjani said Sunday. “But secrecy was necessary to buy equipment for a peaceful nuclear program.”
“If sanctions had not been imposed on us, we would have declared everything publicly, but we had problems buying metal. Nobody sold us anything in the market,” he said.
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