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Tehran Rejects Claims of Cleaning Up Nuclear Works

IN THIS ISSUE: Iran rejects claims of cleaning up nuclear works, the Parchin Trap, nuclear-security pacts in US, Obama, Putin agree to maintain talks on missile defense, preventing another Fukushima, Democratic United Party opposes plan to build nuke reactors.

Published on March 13, 2012
 

Iran Rejects Claims of Cleaning Up Nuclear Works

Nasser Karimi | Associated Press

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Iran on Tuesday rejected allegations it attempted to clean up radioactive traces possibly left by secret nuclear work at a key military site before granting U.N. inspectors permission to visit the facility.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters in Tehran that the allegations were misleading and false, and insisted that such traces could not be cleaned up.

Satellite images of Iran's Parchin military facility that circulated last week appeared to show trucks and earth-moving vehicles at the location. That set off assertions by diplomats, all nuclear experts accredited to the U.N. nuclear agency in Vienna, about a cleanup operation.  Full Article

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