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To: haqihana who wrote (18845)	4/9/2007 4:18:49 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

gw's approach toward iran is working miracles "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran has begun enriching uranium on an industrial scale, stepping up the country's defiance of the United Nations and risking an escalation of tensions over its nuclear program. ``I am proud to say that right from today our country has entered the group of countries that produce nuclear fuel industrially,'' Ahmadinejad said today at the Natanz uranium- enrichment site. While the president didn't specify the scale of enrichment, Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani confirmed to reporters that uranium gas was being fed into 3,000 centrifuges. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Feb. 22 that Iran planned to have 3,000 centrifuges at Natanz by May, though a UN official with direct knowledge of the IAEA's Iran inquiries at the time called that goal optimistic. About 1,500 centrifuges spinning non-stop for a year would be needed to produce the 28 kilograms (62 pounds) of 90 percent-enriched uranium needed for a bomb, said nuclear physicist David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington. The announcement was a challenge to the UN Security Council, which gave Iran 60 days from March 24 to suspend enrichment after the country ignored three such deadlines. The Security Council demands were in response to allegations by the U.S. and some of its allies that Iran is using the development of nuclear power to disguise a weapons program in contravention of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.