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Iran reacts to world's criticism with 10 new uranium plants
Published: 29 November, 2009, 22:08
Edited: 30 November, 2009, 12:11
TAGS: Nuclear, UN, Asia, Russia, Middle East, Politics
The Iranian government approved on Sunday the building of ten new uranium enrichment plants. It comes amid mounting pressure over the country's disputed nuclear program.
On Monday, one of the country’s vice presidents reportedly said that Tehran had no intention of building new enrichment facilities, until it was criticized by the UN nuclear watchdog.
Ali Akbar Salehi told state radio that his country needed to give a strong response to Friday’s International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) resolution that demands the immediate suspension of the building of a newly revealed nuclear facility near the holy city of Qom and halting other enrichment activities.
On Sunday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that in order to produce 20 megawatts of atomic energy, 500 new centrifuges will be required.
“We need to achieve the rate of production of 250-300 tons a year,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Iranian parliament is urging the government to scale back cooperation with the UN's atomic agency.
Iran's leaders remain defiant following an IAEA resolution that condemned Tehran's efforts to enrich uranium, calling it “a backward step.”
Both Russia and China backed the UN watchdog's declaration, hinting that more sanctions could follow.
Tehran insists its nuclear program is peaceful, something which many world powers dispute.
Iran's chief representative to the atomic agency, Ali Asgar Soltaneih, told RT that the UN's move will damage chances of a compromise.
“This is a real humanitarian disaster if they [UN] will not cooperate”, he added.
"In the last months Iran has been toughening its policy," said Russian Academy of Science political analyst Aleksey Fenenko. "We remember the military maneuvers and the rejection of the proposals made by the Geneva Six. What Iran is trying to do is to work out the US position. Iran feels that Barack Obama is not as tough a leader as George Bush was and his national security is still governed by the Bush-era documentation. So Iran must find out how far it can go."
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Yes this is the Iranian gamble playing out to the end, truly fascinating game of chance on this one. With Obama struggling with a troop deployment and the domestic US tired of illegal wars, he thinks he can pull it off. He is betting a win either way strategy, he is banking that either the west has no stomach for another illegal fight or that if they do they will come into the snake pit and be eaten bit by bit. Iran also knows that if they can pull it off Israel will come within their grasp, and that is one end game they would be happy with. It's Iran's call, but they are playing for high stakes, they could be miscalculating a little. The west has no level of evil that it will not sink to in order to try to maintain US control over oil and gas and the people of the middle east. They will justify anything to keep Israel in the dominant position in the middle east. So the Iranians could be miscalculating, that an intervention will be conventional. But let's see how it plays out. Iran following through on its international legal right to nuclear power is proving to be interesting and a little much for the western bankers to bare. How dare Iran challenge the masters of the universe, to pursue its legal rights, instead of being controled and frightened into submission.
# From Poland - Yes you are correct, but when it comes to US (and Israeli) interests I have observed that being 'reasonable' does not register with them. There are many people in the US that still think that Saddam Hussain actually had 'weapons of mass destruction' and that Osama Bin Laden still lives in a cave in Afghanistan. These are the same sought of people who voted Bush in for a second term, and who voted for Palin&McCain against Obama, and who still think the US is the 'richest' country in the world (I doubt they have even heard the term 'national debt'). This would be almost funny if some of these same people did not now have their fingers very close to, or actually on, the lauch / fire buttons of some very nasty weapons. Having read some reports from the US and Israel it would appear that many in these counries actually think that they could 'bomb Iran back to the stone age' and not suffer any concequences. I just hope that there are enough sane, sensible, and intelligent people left in the US and Israel to prevent these fools from 'talking up a war' and picking a fight with yet another middle eastern country..........
If the UN and the permanent members of this puppet organization really want to keep the middle east " nuclear free" , why not make Israel give account of its nuclear weapons and also be forced to destroy all of its arsenal, what is good for one should be good for all and even handed. The two face foreign policy set forth by the West is embarrassing and is an insult to the rest of the world, not all countries around the world are gullible and naive to think that this is fare and equitable treatment of these middle eastern countries who are being raped and murdered for there natural resources, and that is oil.