Iran should halt sensitive atom work: Ebadi
Tehran,
Nov
19:
Iranian
Nobel
Peace
Prize
laureate
Shirin
Ebadi
called
on
the
Islamic
Republic
today
to
suspend
sensitive
nuclear
activities
which
the
West
suspects
are
aimed
at
making
bombs.
''Iran should respect UN Security Council resolutions and it means suspending uranium enrichment and resolving the dispute (on the nuclear issue) through talks,'' Ebadi, a leading human rights lawyer, told reporters.
Iran says its nuclear programme is peaceful and has repeatedly refused to halt enrichment, a process to make fuel for power plants that can also provide material for bombs.
Criticising the handling of Iran's nuclear policy is sensitive because it is considered a matter of national security. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has branded critics who want Iran to suspend uranium enrichment as ''traitors''.
Reuters
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