Iran plans 10 new enrichment plants in 2010/11

Source: Reuters

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities during the next Iranian year, its atomic energy chief was quoted as saying, in comments likely to further raise tension with the West.

The statement by Ali Akbar Salehi on Sunday evening comes after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earlier in the day instructed Iran's Atomic Energy Organization to start work on producing higher-grade nuclear fuel for a Tehran reactor.

Iran's announcement raised the stakes in its dispute with the West, but Ahmadinejad said talks were still possible on a nuclear swap offer by world powers designed to allay fears the Islamic Republic is making an atomic bomb.

Salehi, who heads the Atomic Energy Organization, also on Sunday said Iran would start producing uranium enriched to a level of 20 percent on Tuesday, in the presence of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).


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This follows earlier announcement that they will increase nuclear enrichment to a level of 20%

Now that it is apparently arming itself to the teeth,they don't seem so keen on "dealing with it".I am really really shocked by this.

Bear in mind,that once Iran has nukes(if it does manage to obtain them) along with the ability to launch them. The US isn't going to be able to exert the same kind of pressure as before. For fear of what might happen if we pissed them off.