Iran Digs-in After IAEA Resolution; Will “Produce Own Nuclear Fuel”

One day after the international Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution demanding that Iran halt construction of a new enrichment facility to prepare uranium for use in a medical research reactor in Tehran, the Iranians responded with a defiant pledge to enrich its own uranium. The rebuff came in a speech by senior Iranian cleric Ahmad Khatami at Tehran University. He demanded that the IAEA provide the fuel needed for the Tehran reactor, otherwise the Iranians will enrich it themselves.  Previously, the Iranians rejected an IAEA proposal under which its uranium stockpile would be shipped to Russia for enrichment.