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NEW YORK — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that his country has complied with U.N. rules that require it to inform the world body’s nuclear agency six months before a uranium-enrichment facility becomes operational.
The Iranian leader said at a news conference that the new facility won’t be operational for 18 months, so Iran has not violated any requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran acknowledged the facility’s existence for the first time in a letter Monday to the Vienna-based IAEA that said the enrichment level would be up to 5 percent, suitable only for peaceful purposes. Weapons-grade material is more than 90 percent enriched.
