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Interestingly, he said that Iran couldn’t "go back" on
its peaceful nuclear program and being vague on
whether that meant couldn’t just be civilian,
rollback a nuclear weapons program, or go back on its
promises on civilian program. Going against
conventional wisdom that Iran illicitly obtained
weapons technology from Pakistan’s disgraced nuclear
scientist A.Q. Khan; he insisted that Iran's nuclear
research capabilities as "100%
domestic.
Sidestepping questions on the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, Mashaee diverted conversations to issues concerning
fossil fuels. He said that his Government has agreed
in "principle" to ratify the mega Liquefied
Natural Gas deal held in abeyance after India's
September vote against its nuclear program. He also
sounded overly optimistic about the
Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline project.
Meanwhile, Iran has accelerated its
"research" program and is deploying hundreds
of centrifuges it illegally procured from the Khan
network.
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