Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 39

27-September-2004

IRAN

Iran Defies IAEA By Resuming Uranium Conversion

Tehran has announced the resumption of uranium upgrading, bolstering US suspicions that it is developing nuclear weapons rather than power technology as it claims, and testing the patience of EU states which have supported diplomacy rather than sanctions as a means of finding the true intent of Irans nuclear program. Gholamreza Aghazadeh, Director of the Iranian Atomic Energy...