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Credit: Reuters/Vladimir Soldatkin VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is enriching nuclear material to higher levels as a backup plan because it fears it will not receive foreign fuel for a medical research reactor, Tehran's envoy to the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Wednesday. World Iran started refining uranium to 20 percent purity in February saying it wanted to produce fuel for a reactor that makes isotopes for treating cancer after talks over a fuel swap deal proposal with big powers stalled. The move sparked Western concerns as it brings the material closer to the level of refinement needed for atomic arms. "We have to do it since we have been facing a lack of any legally-binding assurance of supply," Ali Asghar Soltanieh told reporters. Iran says its nuclear work is for peaceful uses only. Under a proposal drafted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in October, Iran would part with 1,200 kg of its low-enriched uranium -- enough for an atom bomb if enriched to higher levels -- in return for the special fuel rods. Last month Brazil and Turkey resurrected parts of the plan, seen as a possible way to ease nuclear tensions with the West, and Iran said it agreed to it. But Western officials have voiced doubts over the new plan because of Iran's launch of higher scale enrichment and the growth in its low-enriched uranium stockpile. Asked if Iran would stop 20 percent enrichment if the fuel swap took place, something analysts have suggested as a compromise to reassure the West, Soltanieh said: "We have to be very careful not to create precedents." Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki also gave ambiguous signals on a trip to Brussels on Wednesday. "When we don't need 20 percent uranium, we will not produce it," he said. He urged world powers to cooperate with Iran over its nuclear programme and said new sanctions would not persuade Tehran to abandon it. MISSING EQUIPMENT Soltanieh also denied a section in the IAEA's latest report on Iran which said inspectors had discovered nuclear equipment had been removed from a research laboratory in Tehran after the agency had asked for details about the work. "Nothing has been removed," he said. "Whatever that is in this paragraph is wrong, we are writing to the director general and insisting that he corrects it." Diplomats said Soltanieh had not made the complaint in a closed-door IAEA briefing to countries on Wednesday despite talking at length about the report. According to the report, Tehran told the agency it had started researching the production of uranium metal, raising Western concerns because this material has both weapons and civilian applications. In a visit in April inspectors noticed some of the equipment -- an electrochemical cell -- had gone. There was no explanation, but removal of any nuclear equipment without agency knowledge would also raise questions. An official with knowledge of the Iran investigation said the missing part was the "outer vessel" of the equipment and that the main section had been left in place. Asked where the equipment is now, Soltanieh said: "It is as it was," and added that he would explain the uses of the research in his letter to the agency. World Comments See All Comments (6) | Post Comment Jun 02, 2010 2:22pm EDT Once again, the USA, with the Israelis giving the talking points will search for any seeming discrepancies and hyper inflate it into, “Iran is bulding nuclear weapons”. It would calm tensions if the political wing in the US Government (The White House and the State Department) would stop parroting the Israeli talking points and listen to our intelligence community who say that there is no evidence that Iran is building any nuclear weapons. Aarky Report As Abusive Jun 02, 2010 2:29pm EDT Well said Asrky, but unfortunately the US are just puppets for Israel and they have to power or say so in any decision making. All the decision making is in the background dictated by Israel. Its too bad the American public is not intelligent enough to figure that out even though the rest of the world knows that. RickyX Report As Abusive Jun 02, 2010 2:51pm EDT The hypocritical non-proliferation regime has become a politically driven tool in the hands of the United States to selectively “lay down the law” on weaker states. Why the fuss over Iran when Israel remains in a state of nuclear denial? And why does a member of the NPT like Iran get punished for seeking civilian enrichment technology, when India and its nuclear arsenal has chosen to remain outside the regime and challenge it overtly, gets a big reward from Washington instead? Furthermore, why expect compliance with Western preferences in the NPT if the major nuclear powers have been unable to honor their part of the deal and move decisively toward disarmament? DC106 Report As Abusive Jun 02, 2010 2:54pm EDT Backup plan? Why does the world, or Iranians, need medical research from their soil right now anyway?! And that is if they are actually ‘not’ lying…. Which of course they are. SeaWa Report As Abusive Jun 02, 2010 3:00pm EDT ‘weaker’ states. That’s a mentality of it’s own. Those that assume the strong take advantage of the weak would definitely take advantage of those they themselves perceive to be weak. The Iranians are flat out liars. That’s worse than the supposed hypocrisy I hear the paranoid world apply to the U.S. which has been an avid defender of most of those complainants at its own expense. SeaWa Report As Abusive Jun 02, 2010 3:30pm EDT SeaWa you sound very ignorant and brainwashed just as the rest of the American public is. The ONLY LIARS in this world are Israel and the US which is run by Israel. What kind of dumn comment was that you made “Why do the Iranians need medical research”??? Why not?? Duhh why does the US need anything????? Stop being a damn racist and open your eyes and you can see whats really going on in the world. RickyX Report As Abusive See All Comments (6) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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