IRAN: Regarding the United Nation Security Council decision about sanctions on Iran, the Iranian newspapers have published these news on Sunday December 24

Iran will start installing 3,000 centrifuges at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant from Sunday as an immediate reaction to the U.N. Security Council resolution, Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said. "We will start our installation activities at the Natanz facility from Sunday," he told the Kayhan newspaper. "It is our immediate answer to the resolution and we will go ahead with full speed." The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and technology, in an attempt to stop uranium enrichment work that could be used in bombs. Iran has condemned the resolution as an illegal measure outside the council's jurisdiction. Larijani insisted sanctions would not deter Iran. The resolution demands Iran end all research on uranium enrichment, which can produce fuel for nuclear power plants or for bombs, and halt all research and development on methods of producing or delivering atomic weapons. The thrust of the sanctions is a ban on imports and exports of dangerous materials and technology relating to uranium enrichment, reprocessing and heavy-water reactors, as well as ballistic missile delivery systems. Iran in October started up a second group of 164 centrifuges, which spin at supersonic speeds to enrich uranium. Tehran says its Natanz underground facility will eventually house tens of thousands of the machines but that it will only use them to enrich uranium to a level suitable for use in atomic power reactors.

ITN Source | December 24, 2006

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