Tehran: A senior Iranian official has denied reports the Islamic republic has temporarily stopped enriching uranium to the 20 per cent level, the state news agency IRNA said today.
"Iran's nuclear activities are unchanged and enriching uranium to 20 per cent continues," IRNA quoted Alaeddin Boroujerdi, who heads the Iranian parliament's influential foreign policy committee, as saying.
Iran's nuclear enrichment programme is at the core of its dispute with world powers, who suspect it masks a drive for atomic weapons despite repeated denials by the Islamic republic.
Conservative MP Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, the spokesman of the foreign affairs commission, was quoted as saying on Thursday that Iran was temporarily halting its production of uranium to the 20 per cent level.
But on Friday the MP told Fars news agency he had been misquoted.
Iran proposed a roadmap to settle the dispute at talks in Geneva earlier this month.
"Iran's nuclear activities are unchanged and enriching uranium to 20 per cent continues," IRNA quoted Alaeddin Boroujerdi, who heads the Iranian parliament's influential foreign policy committee, as saying.
Iran's nuclear enrichment programme is at the core of its dispute with world powers, who suspect it masks a drive for atomic weapons despite repeated denials by the Islamic republic.
Conservative MP Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, the spokesman of the foreign affairs commission, was quoted as saying on Thursday that Iran was temporarily halting its production of uranium to the 20 per cent level.
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But on Friday the MP told Fars news agency he had been misquoted.
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Iran proposed a roadmap to settle the dispute at talks in Geneva earlier this month.
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