{"id":16017,"date":"2009-11-13T21:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T19:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=16017"},"modified":"2023-04-06T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T07:23:38","slug":"turkey-warm-to-storing-iranian-uranium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/11\/13\/turkey-warm-to-storing-iranian-uranium\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey warm to storing Iranian uranium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">By JPOST.COM STAFF AND AP <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lead\">Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Friday that if asked, his country would be willing to temporarily store Iran&#8217;s enriched uranium to help defuse a standoff over Western suspicions that Teheran is trying to build an atomic bomb. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lead\">Yildiz stated that storing low-level enriched uranium in Turkey would not pose a problem, adding that although such a request had not been made, the issue was still being discussed.<\/p>\n<p>If asked, he concluded, &#8220;we would not say no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The idea that Turkey could play a role in the crisis was raised in an American television interview by IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei, who noted that Turkey, a Muslim country and a NATO member, has good relations with both neighboring Iran and the US.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after a press conference in Istanbul, Monday.<br \/>\n<strong>Photo: AP<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Iranian Chief of Staff Hassan Firouzabadi spoke later on Friday in support of the proposals to ship most of Teheran&#8217;s low-enriched uranium stockpile abroad for further processing, AFP reported, quoting the Mehr news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative will prove that the country&#8217;s &#8220;peaceful nuclear activities&#8221; are &#8220;bona fide,&#8221; Firouzabadi was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s chief of staff also urged Russia to ship the S-300 surface-air missile system to Teheran in accordance with a contract signed between the two countries months ago, PressTV reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Firouzabadi expressed confusion over Moscow&#8217;s six-month delay. &#8220;Don&#8217;t Russian strategists realize Iran&#8217;s geopolitical importance to their security?&#8221; the general was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The system would significantly boost Iran&#8217;s defense capabilities, especially against aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1258027282462&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JPOST.COM STAFF AND AP Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Friday that if asked, his country would be willing to temporarily store Iran&#8217;s enriched uranium to help defuse a standoff over Western suspicions that Teheran is trying to build an atomic bomb. Yildiz stated that storing low-level enriched uranium in Turkey would not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":179175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,42,89],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-16017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_","category-russia","category-turkey","tag-irans-nuclear-programme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}