Iran building ten new nuclear enrichment plants
Iran gave its response to President Obumbler's pleas for 'engagement' on Sunday and it was not what the President expected. The atomic body has been ordered to begin building at five new sites earmarked for uranium enrichment plants, state television IRIB reported on its website.
The government also ordered the Iranian body to locate sites for another five over the next two months, the media organisation said.
The new enrichment plants are to be the same size as its main enrichment complex at Natanz.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reported to have said he will not allow an inch of Iranian rights to be wasted.
The cabinet is meeting on Wednesday to discuss plans to enrich uranium up to 20% purity, the president is quoted as saying on the website.
Mr Ahmadinejad said Iran should be producing 250-300 tonnes of nuclear fuel per year, according to IRIB.
The development is likely to add further strain to relations between Iran and Western powers.
It would seem logical to assume the purpose of these multiple sites is to make a successful military strike to downgrade or destroy Iran’s nuclear-bomb-making capacity difficult to the point of impossibility. It would be hard enough for Israel or the United States to stage a complex series of simultaneous surprise aerial bombings against four locations; from four to 14 would certainly be beyond Israel’s capacity and would significantly strain our own.
Remember when everybody was saying, including in the Democratic primary for president, that it would be unacceptable for Iran to get the bomb? Remember when President Bush said those who allowed Iran to get the bomb would enjoy the same reputation in the annals of history as the Western leaders at Munich?
Seriously though, this development may speed up the timetable for an Israeli strike. If there are really only four facilities right now, it will be much easier to hit four than fourteen.
Israel Matzav: Iran building ten new nuclear enrichment plants
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