Iran dismisses French warning of nuclear build-up as `nonsense`
(WorldNews Europe)

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Sunday dismissed a claim by France that Tehran was in the process of building up its nuclear weapons as "absurd nonsense". The French accusation came on Saturday, the same day Iran`s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired ballistic missiles in the Indian Ocean, ending a two-day military exercise. Acting on orders from President Hassan Rouhani, Iran announced this month that it was pressing ahead with plans to enrich uranium to 20 per cent fissile strength at its new underground Fordow nuclear plant. In doing so, Iran accelerated its breaches of the 2015 nuclear...