Iran conference panelists criticize nuclear program
Panelists at a conference about Iran's nuclear program have spoken out publicly about its steep costs to the country.
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A conference at the University of Tehran about Iran’s nuclear program has produced some of the harshest criticism yet of its costs to the country, prompting condemnation from a parliamentary official, who called for legal action to be taken against the prominent Iranian panelists.
The Iranian Students’ News Agency published the transcripts of the conference, and the story became popular on social media after foreign-based Radio Farda compiled some of the conference's highlights.