Iran: Nuclear Club Member

June 12, 2007

 

— Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking to government officials and university heads in Sudan, March 1, 2007

“With great honor, I declare that as of today our dear country has joined the nuclear club of nations and can produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale.”

—Ahmadinejad, at the Natanz nuclear facility,
April 9, 2007

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has installed 3,000 centrifuges and begun feeding them with uranium hexafluoride gas…We are ready for talks with the West to reach an agreement that guarantees the opposite side in the talks a civilian focus to the Iranian nuclear program…but during the negotiations, we are not going to give up our rights.”

—Ali Larijani, Iranian nuclear negotiator,
after speech by Ahmadinejad, April 9, 2007

Photo Credit: Ahmadinejad