West Says Iran Has Broken Nuclear Pledge

(Telegraph-UK) Anton La Guardia - Senior Western diplomats accused Iran Tuesday of breaking a promise to halt uranium enrichment, a key process in making a nuclear weapon. Western officials said Teheran was still buying and assembling machines to enrich uranium. "This is clearly a breach. The goal is cessation of enrichment and we are moving in the opposite direction," said one senior Western source. Iran promised to suspend "all uranium enrichment-related activities" as part of the deal that saved Iran from being referred to the Security Council and being treated as an international pariah.


2004-01-21 00:00:00

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