Reuters: Iran Allows Journalists Into Key Nuclear Plant

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8032822

Iran Allows Journalists Inside Key Nuclear Plant
Wed Mar 30, 2005 03:23 AM ET

By Amir Paivar
NATANZ, Iran (Reuters) - Iran allowed journalists for the first time on Wednesday into part of a nuclear plant which Washington and the European Union want permanently closed and which until late 2002 was a closely guarded secret.

The visit by about 30 local and foreign journalists to the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, 150 miles south of Tehran, reflected an unusual degree of openness by the Islamic state.

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Approaching the 1,110-acre site ringed by arid mountains, journalists counted at least 10 anti-aircraft batteries, parts of which have been built deep underground as protection from aerial attack.

At the heavily guarded main gate there were no signs to indicate the nature of the sprawling site whose existence was first revealed by an Iranian exile group in late 2002, prompting international concern about Iran's atomic ambitions.

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1. This is great

Iran is finally getting smart about this. No more grandstanding, and no more playing around. They are going to put some media types into the works and will try to get some security against Bush.

Iran is no saint in its government, and is pound for pound worse than the U.S., but it is still one hell of a lot more stable than would be a U.S. occupation.

And as for the nukes? I'm more worried about our own impulsive Texan wannabe leader than the Iranian freaks. Our nuts are more dangerous...