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Thursday, June 03, 2004
US: Iran Nuclear Program Designed To Produce Weapons
June 03, 2004
Dow Jones Newswires
AP
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department expressed concern Wednesday about Iran exploring the possibility of producing a centrifuge capable of making weapons-grade uranium.
Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the only purpose of 18 years of covert nuclear activity by Iran could be to create weapons.
"There is no doubt," Boucher said, "that they have an extensive program of nuclear activity and that many of those activities are in no way peaceful."
Rather, Boucher said, they "are specifically intended to create weapons."
Earlier Wednesday in Tehran, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Hasan Rowhani, left open the option of producing a centrifuge capable of making weapons-grade uranium.
He spoke a day after the International Atomic Energy Agency credited Iran with being more open about its nuclear programs but expressed concern about years of secret activities.
Asked about the centrifuge, Boucher said "we certainly have talked about some of these reports before and said that we are quite concerned about this information itself, but also about the fact this information was not disclosed by Iran, despite its repeated commitments to do so."
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