Iran's Manhattan Project Rushes Ahead (with Help from France)

Mon, Apr 9, 2007 at 9:50:07 am PDT

Iran’s madman president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced today that Iran’s production of nuclear fuel has reached industrial capacity.

April 9 (Bloomberg) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran has begun enriching uranium on an industrial scale, stepping up the Islamic Republic’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.

Where has Iran been getting the technical knowledge to enrich uranium on this scale? Would you believe, France? Iran Has Shares In French Nuclear Facility.

WESTERN GOVERNMENTS have been accused of “stunning hypocrisy” after it was revealed that Iran has a 10% stake in the world’s largest uranium enrichment plant in France.

All the time that Britain, France and the US have been pressing the Iranian government to cease enriching uranium, the Islamic republic has been reaping multimillion pound dividends from its shareholding in Eurodif, an international enrichment plant at Pierrelatte in southern France.

Because of its involvement, Iran has also been learning more about the latest enrichment technology. It claims that it only wants to enrich uranium to improve its performance as a fuel in nuclear power stations, but Western nations are worried that it will be used to make nuclear bombs.