Namibian Prime Minister Nahas Angula told The Namibian newspaper that Namibia’s largest uranium miner, Rossing Uranium, was under pressure not to supply Iran with the radio active material.

The Iranian government holds a 15 percent stake in Rossing Uranium, which has previously denied any commercial deal to supply Iran with uranium mined in Namibia.

Under Namibian laws, the government approves all uranium exports.

Angula could not say whether Namibia was supplying Iran with uranium but revealed that government viewed Iran as one of its customers who have contracts to buy uranium mined from the country.

“Unless an international agreement, such as with the UN Security Council, calls for countries not to supply to Iran, the Namibian government treats Iran as any other country,” the daily quoted Angula as saying.

The USA, Britain, Germany and France states which believe that Iran is running low on uranium supplies, have been lobbying intensely to bar uranium producers from supplying the material to Iran for fear that Tehran is trying to develop an atomic bomb.

Source: APA