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Gnomemoot 0: Iran - what is the problem? | 194 comments (194 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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Iran's "urgency" in developing nuclear enrichment technology could be for the very reasonable reason that their nuclear program has fallen behind by decades -- remember, it was the Shah that started the program, and Iran was supposed to have 7 functioning nuclear reactors by now.

Since then, Iran's oil production has halved, its population has doubled, and Iran consumes 40% of its oil production domestically.

As for "bigger" centrifgues -- this is the first time that I've heard of this claim, and secondly, so what? Bigger doesn't necessarily mean "for nuclear weapons" -- especially since Iran's enrichment program is under IAEA safeguards.

by CyrusI on Fri Mar 10th, 2006 at 05:33:05 PM EST
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