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Russia said it was seriously concerned by the proposal for a huge expansion of Iran's atomic program. Washington has condemned the plans as a "serious violation" of U.N. Security Council resolutions demanding it suspend uranium enrichment. The comments by Ali Larijani, the influential conservative speaker of parliament, underlined deteriorating relations between Iran and world powers, after a brief diplomatic rapprochement two months ago, seeking a peaceful solution to a long-running standoff over Iran's disputed nuclear program. Last week, the 35-nation governing board of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), rebuked Iran for building an enrichment plant in secret, triggering Tehran's defiant announcement to erect 10 more such sites. "I believe that their moves are harming the NPT the most ... Now whether you are a member of the NPT or pull out of it has no difference," Larijani told a news conference, alluding to the global pact banning development of nuclear weapons. "This decision (new enrichment sites) was the result of the recent (IAEA) resolution, and Iran's government sent a strong message," said Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, quoted by state broadcaster IRIB. Top Iranian officials have repeatedly said Iran has no intention of leaving the NPT, under which its nuclear sites are subject to IAEA inspections, or use enrichment to produce fuel for nuclear weapons, which it says violate the tenets of Islam. Analysts also believe Iran would think twice before quitting the NPT since such a move would betray nuclear weapons ambitions and could provoke pre-emptive attack by Israel and possibly the United States. SUSPICIONS ABOUT MAJOR ENRICHMENT EXPANSION It could take sanctions-bound Iran, which has problems obtaining materials and components abroad, many years to equip and operate 10 new plants, strategic analysts say. Iran dismissed skepticism voiced by some Western analysts about its wherewithal to execute the plan. "They will see in the future that what we have said is no bluff," First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi told Fars news agency. If Iran indeed expands enrichment so much, suspicions of an underlying agenda to develop nuclear weapons will rise since Iran lacks the fuel-fabrication technology that is required to turn low-enriched uranium (LEU) into material for civilian nuclear power plants -- but not needed to refine LEU to the high purity needed for bombs. Further, Iran is not building any nuclear power plants that could use the LEU it is producing. Salehi said Tehran would not violate its international commitments, an allusion to basic IAEA nuclear safeguards. But a hardline newspaper editor, appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, asked in an editorial whether it was time for Tehran to withdraw from the NPT. "After seven years of hasty behavior by the (IAEA) and (six world powers involved in diplomatic efforts to resolve the row), isn't it time for Iran to pull out of the NPT?" wrote managing editor Hossein Shariatmadari of Kayhan newspaper. "This is a serious question and needs a logical answer." Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! Facebook LinkedIn Next Article: Serena fined $175,000 for U.S. Open tirade Also On Reuters Blog: Why is Starbucks hiding its iconic logo? 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