Nuclear Crisis Part I: Risks Escalating

With the announcement on February 11 by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Iran has produced its first batch of uranium enriched to 20%, the Islamic Republic has moved a step closer to being able to produce a nuclear weapon. Tehran insists that its nuclear programme has no military application, and that the 20% enriched uranium will be used in a reactor producing medical isotopes. Moreover, with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors still regularly visiting the Islamic Republic's nuclear fuel enrichment plant at Natanz, it would be difficult for Iran to divert any of the 20% enriched uranium produced there without

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