Supreme Leader Khamenei: Negotiations with the United States possible if “sanctions and threats” against Iran dropped; Iran launches Bushehr nuclear power plant
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    • Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that any talks with the US would only be possible if Washington drops “sanctions and threats” against Tehran. He also stated that “the respected president (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) and others have said that we are ready for negotiations. It is right. But not with America…The reason is that America does not enter the field honestly as a normal negotiator. They should drop the face of a superpower, they should drop threats, they should drop sanctions and they should not set a goal for negotiations. Then we are ready.” However, earlier this month, President Ahmadinejad had urged the United States to join talks on a nuclear fuel swap deal for Iran. He also proposed talks with US President Obama on “global problems” at the UN General Assembly in September. But the United States rejected this proposal.1

    Reports noted that Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant has been launched on August 21, 2010 as engineers loaded the first of 163 fuel rods into the reactor under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency. According to the reports, with this beginning Iran has joined 29 nations which are currently generating nuclear power. The nuclear power plant will produce 1000 megawatts of electricity once all the fuel rods are loaded into the core of the reactor. Iran plans to build enough plants so that 20,000 megawatts of power can be generated over the next 20 years.2

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