Re: bombs in Iran soon? -- UN

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/23/07, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran23feb23,1,3525440.story?coll=la-headlines-world
>
> Iran's nuclear effort in high gear, U.N. says
> The report raises fears Tehran may be capable of a warhead in a year.
> By Bob Drogin
> Times Staff Writer
>
> February 23, 2007/L.A. TIMES
>
> VIENNA — Iran has accelerated its program to enrich uranium and defied
> a United Nations Security Council deadline to suspend nuclear
> activities, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said here Thursday.
>
> The report by Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic
> Energy Agency, confirmed that Iran recently began installing the first
> of 3,000 gas centrifuges in a heavily fortified, underground chamber
> at its Natanz plant and that it planned to "bring them gradually into
> operation by May 2007."

For the last couple of months, it's been frequently reported that
there emerged increasing debates and questions about the nuclear
program in Iran's media, including the media closest to Ali Khamenei,
but it turns out that the program is essentially unchanged and if
anything accelerated.  What other economic sanctions might the West be
planning on?
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