Mugabe signs secret deal to sell uranium to Tehran Article Graphic: supply of uranium to Iran 1 of 2 Robert Mugabe with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran in 2006 ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Robert Mugabe with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran in 2006 Robert Mugabe with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran in 2006 ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Jerome Starkey, Jan Raath in Harare, Michael Evans and Hugh Tomlinson Published at 12:02AM, August 10 2013 Zimbabwe’s Government has signed an agreement with Iran to sell raw materials for a nuclear weapon in direct breach of international sanctions, a senior government official has told The Times. The move by Harare and Tehran is expected to provoke international outrage because of the attempt to circumvent punitive Western sanctions imposed on the two regimes. Gift Chimanikire, the Zimbabwean Deputy Mining Minister, said that a memorandum of understanding had been signed to export uranium to Tehran, despite warnings from Washington of serious “ramifications” if such a deal went ahead.
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