By NNN-IRNA,
Tehran : There is no reason for Iran to drop uranium enrichment as there is no guarantee that West would meet the country’s demand on nuclear fuel, senior Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
Hassan Qashqavi, made the remarks during his weekly press conference.
As the countries that claimed to supply nuclear fuel have failed to keep their words and were neither capable of guaranteeing to accomplish their commitments later, Iran has no reason to stop it uranium enrichment activities to provide necessary fuel for its nuclear power plants, Qashqavi said.
“It is a fact known in the world that talks which had started 20 years ago for setting up a committee to guarantee nuclear fuel supply, has not reached any conclusion yet,” argued the spokesman.
As for Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities even in the pre- revolution era, Qashqavi said even the former head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency had said in that time that neither the US, nor Germany and France had honored their previously agreed commitments to Iran.
“Uranium enrichment is an absolute right for Iran based on the Non-Proliferation Treaty and Tehran would pursue this right to the end,” Qashqavi added.