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February 12, 2010

US Dismisses Iranian Claims on Uranium Enrichment
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The Obama administration has dismissed Iranian claims to having produced
its first stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium. Declaring Iran a
“nuclear state,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the claim
Thursday at a rally marking the thirty-first anniversary of the Iranian
revolution. But UN inspectors have concluded Iran is experiencing major
setbacks in its uranium program. White House Press Secretary Robert
Gibbs cast doubt on Ahmadinejad’s claims.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs: “We do not believe they [Iran]
have the capability to enrich to the degree to which they now say they
are enriching.”



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