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Iran Defiant On The Nuclear Front

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Foreign Policy

Their answer to the recent unanimous UN resolution?

TEHERAN - Iran will on Sunday start putting in place 3,000 uranium enriching centrifuges at a key nuclear plant in an immediate response to a UN sanctions resolution, top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani told the hardline Kayhan newspaper.

Ã¢â‚¬Å“Our immediate response to the UN Security Council is that, as of today, we will start the activities at the site of the 3,000 centrifuge machines in Natanz and we will go ahead with full speed,Ã¢â‚¬Â? Larijani told the paper.

Natanz is the plant where Iran carries out uranium enrichment, a process the West fears could be diverted to make a nuclear bomb, a charge vehemently denied by Iran.

Ã¢â‚¬Å“We will accelerate our programme to install the 3,000 centrifugesÃ¢â‚¬Â? in response to the resolution, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the influential head of parliamentÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s security commission, told state radio.

Moves like this make it almost certain that we’ll be taking some type of military action in the future given our foreign policy stance of “strike first.”

Get ready.

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One Response to “Iran Defiant On The Nuclear Front”

sleipner Says:
December 25th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
I’m willing to bet that in 2025, historians will look back at the invasion of Iraq as the starting point of World War 3. As we pull out, Iran, Syria, and Turkey will fight over the rotted carcass of Iraq, Iran will continue to enrich uranium, Bush will probably then unilaterally firebomb Iran without waiting for international consensus, and Iran will retaliate by screwing up the world’s oil market. Israel will freak out about Iran’s nuclear capability, and they will nuke Iran, who will retaliate in kind. North Korea, not to be upstaged, will probably do something like threaten Japan with nukes unless they get what they want.

Do I read too much apocalyptic sci fi or what?

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