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November 30, 2009

Iran Plans to Build Ten New Uranium Enrichment Plants
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The Iranian government has announced plans to build 10 new uranium
enrichment facilities in defiance of the United Nations. The decision
came just two days after the U.N’s International Atomic Energy Agency
backed a resolution censuring Tehran over its construction of an
enrichment plant in secret. On Friday the outgoing head of the IAEA
Mohamed El Baradei said negotiations with Iran were at a dead end.

Mohamed El Baradei: “The Agency has continued to verify the
non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran. However, there has
been no movement on remaining issues of concern which need to be
clarified for the Agency to verify the exclusively peaceful nature of
Iran’s nuclear program. It is now well over a year since the Agency was
last able to engage Iran in discussions about these outstanding issues.
We have effectively reached a dead end, unless Iran engages fully with
us.”



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