http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9326126/Iran-designing-nuclear-submarine.html
Iran 's navy "needs the (nuclear-powered) propulsion system to succeed in
realising very long-distance operations."
Iran regularly boasts about advances in military and scientific fields, but in
most cases fails to provide proof they were ever carried out. Western military
experts regularly cast doubt on its claims.
Iran is pushing forward with an ambitious nuclear programme despite UN Security
Council resolutions demanding a halt to uranium enrichment.
"Initial steps to design and build nuclear submarine propulsion
systems have begun," Admiral Abbas Zamini, the technical deputy navy
chief, told the agency.
"All countries have the right to use peaceful nuclear technology,
including for the propulsion system of its vessels," he said.
He did not provide further details.
Just a handful of nations - the United States ,
Russia , France , Britain
and China
- have the technology to make their own nuclear-powered submarines. India has a
model under development.
The navy official's announcement comes as the P5+1 group of world powers
are preparing for a new round of crunch talks with Iran in Moscow on June 18
and 19 over Tehran's disputed nuclear activities.
The nuclear programme is at the heart of a decade-long standoff between a
defiant Tehran
and Western powers that fear the Islamic regime is covertly conducting research
for atomic weapons capability.
Source: AP
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