NCRI – France called on Iranian regime to submit to a full IAEA inspection regime at all its nuclear sites and halt its ongoing program to enrich uranium, AFP reported on Friday.
France expressed concern after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian regime’s president, announced that his regime had developed new nuclear fuel enrichment technology despite international pressure not to do so.
French foreign ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier told reporters: "These are worrying declarations …We need to check the accuracy of the figures … and for that we'll wait for the International Atomic Energy Agency."
The Wall Street Journal wrote today, “The expansion of Iran's nuclear program is feeding fears in the global community that nations are running out of time to prevent Tehran from acquiring technologies needed for an atomic weapon.”
Iranian regime on Thursday also said it has built 7,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium a process that can be used to make fuel for weapons. That is up from 6,000 centrifuges operating in February. Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of the regime's Atomic Energy Organization added that his regime has developed technology to produce a more "accurate" generation of centrifuges.
Oerlich Ivan Oelrich, vice president of the Strategic Security Program at the Federation of American Scientists told the Wall Street Journal that nothing is known about the new Iranian technology.
However, he said its development "could dramatically reduce the floor space you need to produce the enriched uranium and therefore potentially make it much easier to maintain a clandestine site." A major international concern is that Iranian regime could build secret sites to enrich weapons-grade uranium, without international inspectors knowing, the report added.
