Iran not to shut down nuclear facilities

Tehran: Iran will not shutdown or dismantle any of its nuclear facilities, a senior Iranian official has said.
Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) Deputy Managing Director for Protection and Security Asghar Zare’an said, “None of the nuclear sites (in Iran) will be shut down or dismantled and one should not be influenced by the foreign media hype,” the Press TV reported Sunday.
Zare’an made the remarks Saturday during an opening ceremony of projects at Arak nuclear site in Iran.
“We need to … bear in mind that the hostility of the enemies toward the Islamic Republic of Iran is endless. Therefore, we should wisely and prudently turn the enemies’ hopes into despair,” Zare’an said.
Mohammad Hassan Asafari, member of national security and foreign policy committee said Feb 6 that Iran would not dismantle any centrifuges, adding if the Islamic Republic had such an intention, it would not have entered into nuclear talks with the six world powers. Iran and group P5+1 — Russia, China, France, Britain the US plus Germany — reached a nuclear deal in Geneva November 2013. The interim deal, which came into force Jan 20, is aimed at resolving the decade-old dispute over Iran’s nuclear energy programmes and sanctions imposed over it. (IANS)