NCRI – Remarks by the director of the Iranian regime’s Atomic Energy Agency on Wednesday demonstrated once again that the regime is pressing ahead with full force to acquire nuclear weapons. Gholamreza Aghazadeh expressed his brazen comments, saying, “It is time that western countries and especially the new American administration face the facts and acknowledge a nuclear Iran. Of course, even if they refuse to acknowledge this, Iran would still be a nuclear power. … Iran has obtained its goals in every sphere.”
The remarks, which came at the heels of the opening of a nuclear reactor in the southern city of Boushehr, clearly signaled that the religious fascism ruling Iran has accelerated its attempts to complete its nuclear projects and acquire nuclear weapons. This is because on the one hand, it is convinced about a lack of a firm international policy, and on the other hand it seeks to exploit the West’s calls for negotiations. The experience of the past seven years has made it clear that negotiations and unilateral concessions has provided the regime with the best opportunity to inch closer to nuclear bomb.
Aghazadeh also said yesterday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “has no influence over our activities in Natanz. We our doing our work there in accordance with our own schedule.”
Referring to the regime’s plans to install more centrifuges at the nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, central Iran, Aghazadeh said, “We have six thousand operational centrifuges. … If we delay the installation and utilization of centrifuges in Natanz, we would in reality delay the [Boushehr] reactor’s operations. Our goal is to install 50,000 centrifuges over the next five years.”
“The capacity of our new generation of centrifuges is much greater than the existing ones. The capabilities developed in Iran are irreversible,” he added.
He also announced that “We are going to have good news on April 9.”
At the same time, Mohammad Saeedi, deputy director of international affairs of the regime’s Atomic Energy Agency, said, “Access to knowledge and technology, including in the nuclear field, enhances the country’s power, especially at the negotiating table, and forces others to change their behavior.”
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 26, 2009
