Iranian Officials Insist on Peaceful Aim of Nuclear Program
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：VOA2004（上）--各类新闻
Iranian Officials Insist on Peaceful Aim of Nuclear Program
Kerry Sheridan
One day before U.N. discussions about Iran's nuclear program open in Vienna, senior Iranian officials are repeating statements that their nuclear efforts are peaceful. They are calling for the International Atomic Energy Agency to close its 13-month investigation 1 into Iran's nuclear activities. The head of Iran's security council, Hassan Rohani, says Iran should be recognized as a country that has a nuclear program and enriches uranium, but purely 2 for peaceful purposes.
Mr. Rohani says Iran has taken steps to build confidence among members of the international community. He says it is time for Iran to be recognized as a member of the atomic club.
However Iran has been under a cloud since inspectors 3 discovered it had components 4 that could be used for building weapons. They also found traces of radioactive elements that Iran did not disclose when it opened its nuclear program to international inspectors last year.
U.S. officials suspect Iran is hiding a program to build nuclear weapons.
Analyst 5 Mohamed Abdel Salem, an expert on nuclear issues at Cairo's Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, says Iran is trying to do some last-minute damage control.
He says Iran expects that the U.N. nuclear agency could take drastic steps, and is trying to highlight its cooperation.
But Mr. Salem says the matter is not likely to result in Security Council sanctions against Iran. He says neither the United States nor Iran wants to escalate 6 tensions in the region.
The IAEA is scheduled to begin several days of talks on Monday about nuclear issues in Iran, and also in Libya and Pakistan.
注释：
U.N. abbr. United Nations 联合国
Vienna [vi5enE] n. 维也纳（奥地利首都）
Iranian [i5reinjEn] adj. 伊朗的
International Atomic Energy Agency （IAEA ）国际原子能组织
Iran's security council 伊朗安全委员会
Hassan Rohani 哈桑·鲁哈尼，伊朗最高国家安全委员会负责人
uranium [juE5reiniEm] n. 铀
atomic club 核俱乐部
radioactive [5reidiEu5Aktiv] adj. 放射性的，有辐射能的
disclose [dis5klEuz] vt. 揭露，透露
drastic [5drAstik] adj. 激烈的
sanction [5sANkFEn] n. 批准，认可
escalate [5eskEleit] vt. 使逐步上升
Libya [5libiE] n. 利比亚（北非国家）
Pakistan [7pB:kis5tB:n] n. 巴基斯坦（南亚国家）
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
- This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。
- They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过，通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- the components of a machine 机器部件
- Our chemistry teacher often reduces a compound to its components in lab. 在实验室中化学老师常把化合物分解为各种成分。
- What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
- The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。