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Iran’s nuclear technology lies in minds of Iranian scientists: first IAEO director

PARIS, Jan. 16 (MNA) -- Akbar Etemad, the founder of the Iran Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) and the first IAEO director, says that Iran’s nuclear technology lies in the minds of the country’s nuclear scientists and thus can never be suspended.

Etemad, who once headed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors and was even a candidate for the post of IAEA director general, has a lot to say about Iran’s nuclear activities.

In a recent interview with the Mehr News Agency, he said that nuclear expertise is in fuel technology rather than in power plants.

If a country has access to the complete nuclear fuel cycle it is considered a nuclear power, even though it may have no nuclear power plants, Etemad observed.

“In fact, even if you have dozens of nuclear reactors but lack the national power to access the nuclear fuel cycle, you would only be a consumer in the nuclear market,” he explained.

“If I were still director, I would never have allowed Iran to join the NPT, which is in fact an inefficient treaty meant to grant a special concession to some powerful countries,” he said.

“Rather, I would have tried to continue cooperation with the IAEA within the framework of its charter,” he added.

The former IAEO director noted that France and Germany have both proven that they are not prepared to give Iran its nuclear rights.

He stated that Iran had purchased 10 percent of the shares of France’s Eurodif uranium enrichment plant for one billion dollars in 1975, enabling it to avoid bankruptcy, but has never received any uranium from the plant, even though it is a shareholder.
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