[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran will tell the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Monday of its plans to enrich uranium to 20 percent, atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi told state television on Sunday, adding that the process will begin on Tuesday.
"We will inform the IAEA in a letter tomorrow (Monday) of our intention to enrich uranium to 20 percent," Salehi told the Arabic-language Al-Alam television, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
"The higher enrichment will begin at the Natanz plant from the day after tomorrow (Tuesday)," he added. Natanz is in the central province of Isfahan.
Salehi's remarks came hours after hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered him to begin higher uranium enrichment, raising the stakes in a dispute with the West days after seeming to accept a U.N. drafted nuclear deal.
Iranian officials have repeatedly said the Islamic Republic can make fuel enriched to 20 percent itself if there is no agreement on obtaining the material from abroad.
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#1 Because of upheaval in the country they are desperate for war to get the people behind them!
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#2 OTOH PAKISTANI DEFECE FORUM POSTER > opines that, as per Thread sources, Iran already has approxi 135 NUCLEAR WEAPONS [500KT-2MT yield] as purchased from an Iran-friendly foreign country?
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* SAME > HINDU EXTREMIST GROUPS RING ALARM BELLS AROUND THE GLOBE. ARTIC > certain Hindu groups are NOT above being like Radicalist MUSLIM Groups + forcing local CHRISTIANS, OTHER TO CONVERT TO THEIR -ISM UPON PAIN OF VIOL, NEVER-ENDING PERSECUTION ANDOR DEATH.
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