Iran goes nuclear

IRAN: Iran will continue enriching uranium for its peaceful nuclear program after starting up operations in its Bushehr plant with fuel supplied by Russia, for its future reactors, said a leading legislator Saturday.

Alaedding Borujerdi, who chairs the Parliament’s Foreign and National Security Commission, replied back to the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, who said Tehran doesn’t need to carry out a process of that type by its own.

Russia will start supplying nuclear fuel August 21st for Iran’s first reactor in Bushher.

The Parliament leader recalled that the legislative house had passed a law demanding the Iranian Government to generate 20,000 MWs of energy from nuclear power plants. This mean that the country must build 20 reactors like the one in Bushher.

For these plants we need fuel, therefore we ought to enrich uranium and we’ll do it, Borujerdi stressed.

Tehran, Prensa Latina