Iran swears weapons grade nuclear material won't be used to make weapons... really

Unless of course they they say they won't develop nuclear weapons and even sign some treaty promising not to then ten years later detonate a nuke in the middle of the desert. Wow, that's like deja vu all over again. TEHRAN (AP)-[off the wire, no link]-Iran will have new ideas on its contentious nuclear program, which the U.S. claims is geared toward making atomic bombs, as well as foreign policy issues, the country's ultraconservative president-elect said Tuesday. An Iranian nuclear official also said his country will resume nuclear enrichment - a process that can be linked to making bombs - with or without accord from European Union negotiators trying to persuade Tehran to end such activities. The U.K., France and Germany are trying to persuade Iran to permanently freeze its enrichment activities. Tehran voluntarily froze them in November under the threat of U.S.-backed United Nations Security Council sanctions, but says it reserves the right to restart them at any time. [...]Iran has previously said that it would restart enrichment-related activities at its Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility whether or not there is an agreement with the Europeans. No operations are currently taking place at the Isfahan facility, which can convert uranium ore concentrate, known as yellowcake, into uranium gas, the feedstock for enrichment. Copyright © 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.(AP-DJ)--07-12-05 1710EDT