Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 19
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
Iranian students from all around the country have formed a human chain around the Fordo nuclear facility to show their support for Iran's nuclear program, Fars news agency reported on Nov. 19.
The students gathered around Fordo a day before the next round of the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 which is scheduled to be held in Geneva on Nov. 20 and Nov. 21.
The last round of nuclear talks between Iran and the five United Nations veto powers plus Germany, which is known as P5+1, ended on Nov. 10 without any result.
Earlier, Iranian officials stated repeatedly that the Fordo nuclear facility is Iran's "red line." Iran would never agree to shut down its Fordo underground nuclear enrichment facility, head of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi said earlier in October.
Recently at the meeting of Iranian nuclear negotiating team and the Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Comission, it was stressed that Iran will not close any nuclear sites including the Fordo facility and Arak heavy water production plant, and will not halt the enrichment of uranium.
The Fordo underground uranium enrichment facility, which has nearly 3,000 centrifuges installed, is dug deep into a mountain near the city of Qom, some 150 kilometres south of Tehran.
In November 2011, Iranian students formed a human chain around the uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, 450 kmsouth of Tehran to show their support for country's nuclear program.
The U.S. and its Western allies suspect Iran of developing a nuclear weapon - something that Iran denies. The Islamic Republic has stated that it does not seek to develop nuclear weapons, using nuclear energy for medical research instead.