Zimbabwean Mining Minister Obert Mpofu has rejected reports about signing an agreement to sell uranium to Iran as �fiction and wishful thinking� of Western media.
"We are free to trade with any country but my ministry has not signed an agreement about uranium with Tehran,� Mpofu said on Saturday.
"It is fiction and usual wishful thinking of the Western media. Why would we have a secret deal when we are a free country,� he added.
The UK daily�The Times�had earlier quoted Zimbabwean Deputy Mining Minister Gift Chimanikire as saying that Harare had signed a uranium deal with Iran.

Chimanikire himself has denied the report, saying that, �We are not selling or marketing any uranium to anyone at all, so we cannot talk of shipments to anyone.�

�We signed a MoU with Iran, which covers various agreements in mineral trading such as diamonds, gold and other minerals� We have no capacity to handle uranium as a country, and besides we don�t even know the quantity of uranium deposits viable for mining,� Chimanikire said.

The state-owned Zimbabwe Mining Development Corp. has also rejected the report, saying the country is not planning to export uranium to any other state.

�There is no shipment or plans to ship uranium to Iran whatsoever. We are not even considering anything like that or planning to ship anything,� Zimbabwe Mining Chairman Florence Gowora said.

�It�s very unfortunate that Zimbabwe is being linked to something it does not have or will have in the foreseeable future,� Gowora added.

By Press TV

 

The Iran Project is not responsible for the content of quoted articles.