Iran defies world with plan for ten new nuclear sites

Iran’s Government today announced plans to build ten new uranium enrichment plants and said work would start within two months.

Each site will be the size of the existing Natanz plant with the aim of producing between 250-300 tonnes of uranium a year.

IRNA, Iran’s state news agency, says the Government ordered the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to begin construction of five uranium enrichment sites that have already been studied and propose five other sites for future construction.

The decision was made during a Cabinet meeting headed by President Ahmadinejad on Sunday evening, IRNA said.

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4 comments on “Iran defies world with plan for ten new nuclear sites

  1. azusa says:

    The Light Worker will stop this!

  2. sophy0075 says:

    Where is Neville Chamberlain and his umbrella, to come back from Tehran declaiming “peace in our time”?

    Oh, yeah, right. Despotic antisemites nowadays are willing to change their goals on the basis of pleas from the liberal elite in the western world. Not!

  3. libraryjim says:

    Is anyone surprised? Seriously?

    Jim Elliott
    Florida

  4. Br_er Rabbit says:

    Is this not the same behavior that we have tolerated from North Korea for the last 50 years? Why should Iran not conclude that they can get away with the same defiant provocations?