Iran aims to export radio-medicine

Iran has set its sights on developing into an exporter of radio-medicine to regional countries in the future, says the country's top nuclear official, Press TV reported .

Underscoring Islamic Republic's resolve in producing radio-medicine, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani said, "We will not only make the best efforts to eliminate the need for radio-medicines inside the country but will also focus on exporting the product."

The Iranian official went on to say that reactor expansion is needed to achieve the goal of exporting radio-medicine.

"This means that as well as the maintenance and reconstruction of the present reactor, fuel provision and construction of new reactors top our priorities," he elaborated.

"Iranian experts are being denied attendance in some of the educational workshops [of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)], even in the 'nuclear safety courses'," the Iranian official lamented.

The US and its allies have accused Iran of pursuing a military nuclear program, using it as a pretext to pressure the UN Security Council to impose a fourth round of sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

Iran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the IAEA, insists on its legal right to utilize nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.


/Trend/