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Secretary of State Warren Christopher clashed publicly with Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen over a reportedChinese plan to sell nuclear reactorsto Iran. Christopher, who is already fighting a similar proposal by Russia, told Qian in New York that the idea was "too dangerous to justify." Qian replied that Beijing was doing nothing that conflicted with international law. According to the Post,Chinaplans to build two 300-megawatt pressurized water reactors in Iran, as well as transfer a dose of its nuclear know...
Russia refused to cancel itssale of nuclear reactorsto Iran, despite Defense Secretary William Perry's warning during talks in Moscow today thatthe dealcould enable Iran to build a nuclear weapons arsenal. Perry said that while Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin assured him that Russia will make sure Iran does not use plutonium from the reactors to manufacture weapons, the U.S. is not confident that Russia can do so. TIME senior editor George Russell says Russia sees Iran as a "major ideological threat," a key Muslim power with links to Muslims in the southern tier of the former Soviet Union...
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