Iranian Spokesman to Reporters: “What Do You Care?”
Charles Johnson
Thu Aug 4, 2005 at 8:05 pm PDT • Views: 510
You are not going to believe this press conference with Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi, broadcast on Iranian Channels 1 and 2 on July 31, 2005, in which reporters ask questions about Iran’s plan to restart their UCF (Uranium Conversion Facility) at Esfehan:
Reporter: What will the scope of the (UCF) activity in Esfahan be at the beginning? Will it have full or partial capacity?
Asefi: What do you care?
Female reporter: I’ll repeat my colleague’s question…
Asefi: Go ahead, please…
Female reporter:… regarding the UCF in Esfahan. Will its activity start at full or partial capacity, in order to show that the suspension…
Asefi: He asked, and I already said it is of no interest to you.
Female reporter: Please tell us, it might interest us.
Asefi: No. I know it is of no interest to you.
Reporter: Regarding the IAEA inspectors stationed in Tehran, when the UCF activity starts in Esfahan, will the inspectors be there, or did the Iranians plan a special ceremony to mark the start of activity?
Asefi: No. If by “special ceremony” you mean handing out cake and candy, then we have no such thing.
Courtesy of MEMRI TV.
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