Prometheus 6

Iran Rejects Any Deal to End Uranium Enrichment
October 16, 2004

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Saturday it would reject any proposal to drop uranium enrichment, a step European Union diplomats are proposing to end a row over whether Iran is seeking atomic weapons.

EU diplomats have said they are seeking U.S. and Russian support for a deal that would ask Iran to give up uranium enrichment in return for technical and economic assistance.

"Any proposal which deprives Iran of its legitimate right to a fuel cycle is not acceptable," Hossein Mousavian, Iran's head of foreign policy on the Supreme National Security Council, told state television.

Stepping past the absurdity of a right to nuclear technology, you need to understand the NNT does not forbid research into nuclear technology, or even nuclear weapons. Quite naturally no one wants them things spread all over the place but notice the actual legal complaint isn't "you have stuff" but "we didn't know you have stuff."

I should also tell you North Korea did no research into the technology they agreed to abandon…plutonium reactors…until the treaty was irrevocably breeched by the USofA's failure (for whatever reason) to install the light water nuclear reactors we promised. It was known, of course, that the agreement was intended to stop the development of nuclear technology by North Korea but the letter of the treaty was adhered to. And given that both South Korea

South Korea said its scientists produced 150 kilograms (330 pounds) of uranium metal in 1982 in undeclared activities and a small amount of that was used in 2000 to produce a microscopic amount of enriched uranium.

The scientists also admitted to having extracted a miniscule amount of plutonium from 2.5 kilograms of fuel rods in secret research in 1982.

South Korea has the world's sixth-largest civilian nuclear industry, operating 19 power plants that produce 40 percent of the country's energy needs.

and Taiwan

It had been known that Taiwan briefly revived its nuclear weapons research program in the 1980s, and the disclosures confirm suspicions that plutonium-separation experiments were carried out at that time.

Taiwan first launched its nuclear weapons program in the 1960s, but suspended it the following decade under pressure from the United States, which apparently feared the response from Taiwan rival China.

Taiwan's government has never acknowledged having a secret weapons program, analysts say.

have done enrichment tests and China is already a nuclear power I kind of feel I myself would have worked that loophole.