Posted on 04/11/2006 12:44:36 AM PDT by HAL9000
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians will hear "good news" on their country's atomic programme on Tuesday night, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency."After hearing all the good news tomorrow (Tuesday) night, Iranians should prostrate themselves before almighty God," he said in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Monday night.
A conservative newspaper close to key officials has speculated the news would be that Iran had enriched uranium to the 3.5 percent level needed for fuel to run nuclear power stations.
A reporter for the Arabic-language Al Arabiya satellite channel said Iran had already successfully achieved this level of enrichment, but did not give a source.
Iranian officials could not immediately comment on this report.
Iran has been referred to the U.N. Security Council after failing to convince the international community that its scientists are enriching uranium for power stations, and not for weapons.
Not really. Remember, in the last century they've been fought over, meddled with or occupied by Britain, Iraq, the Ottomans, Russia and America. There is a point where you start making all crucial facilities on the basis that they will become targets...
Note that that does not endorse their policy, but if I was Iran I'd be building every major power or essential facility on the assumption that one of their psycho neighbours would intervene or target it at some future point...just think of Afghhanistan, Russia and Pakistan for starters. Plus they have no idea what future Iraqi regimes will be like.
It would not surprise me if the next head of the IAEA was Iranian. That's just how twisted things are at the UN.
Well it's Tuesday night over there, what is the news?
Mashhad was filled with pictures of red tulips last year.
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