NEW YORK: A senior Iranian official said on Tuesday that Tehran was willing to share its controversial nuclear technology with neighboring countries, suggesting it could help Turkey build a nuclear power plant.
Western countries suspect Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons and, along with the U.N. Security Council, have imposed sanctions to try to stop the from country enriching uranium. But Tehran says its nuclear program is to generate electric power.
Referring to Iran's nuclear technology, the official, Mohammad Javad Larijani, said, "We are quite ready to share it with our neighboring countries."
"Turkey is for years trying to have a nuclear power plant but no country in the West is willing to build that for them," Larijani told reporters.
"We are ready to cooperate with (other countries in the Middle East) in this regard, within the NPT." He was referring to the 1968 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which aims to prevent the spread of atomic weapons technology.
Turkey has ambitious plans to build up a civil nuclear production capability.
Larijani is head of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights, an adviser to Iran's chief justice, and head of a mathematics and physics institute. He is also the brother of parliament speaker Ali Larijani.
Larijani's comments came a week after the U.N. atomic watchdog issued a report saying Iran appeared to have worked on designing a nuclear weapon.
Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Nov-15/154168-iran-aide-suggests-could-help-turkey-with-nuclear-plant.ashx#ixzz1do2gHyur
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)
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