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IRAN'S NUCLEAR SECTOR CAN RECOVER QUICKLY FROM ATTACK.

Vice-President for Atomic Energy Qolam Reza Aqazadeh-Khoi, who heads the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, said in a 6 February interview with state television that Iran can recover from an attack on the Bushehr nuclear facility fairly quickly. There would be economic damage, he acknowledged, but Iran's know-how, designs, and capability would not be damaged. Even the physical damage can be repaired, he said, because of the lessons learned in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War. Turning to Iran's mastery of the nuclear-fuel cycle and ability to produce UF6, Aqazadeh-Khoi said there are only seven or eight factories in the world that can make UF2, UF6, uranium oxide, and uranium metal. BS

source: RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 9, No. 24, Part III, 7 February 2005

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This is not what the Wahhabis in the Saudi Arabian government want to hear..:

LEADER OF IRANIAN HAJJ PILGRIMS COMES HOME.
Hojatoleslam Mohammad Mohammadi-Reyshahri, the supreme leader's representative to the hajj pilgrimage, returned to Iran from Saudi Arabia on 30 January, "Iran" reported. Hojatoleslam Gholam-Hussein Mohammadi-Golpayegani, head of the supreme leader's office, and Commerce Minister Mohammad Shariatmadari greeted him at the airport. Reyshahri told reporters that approximately 100,000 Iranians participated in this year's pilgrimage, of whom 3,000 were based in other countries. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met on 3 February with Reyshahri and other officials, IRNA reported. Reyshahri said the Muslim community's knowledge about and interest in Iran's Islamic Revolution was increasingly evident at the pilgrimage. (Bill Samii)

..as there is a shi'ia majority around the oil wells in Saudi.