Ahmadinejad orders uranium enrichment in fresh challenge

[Adsos Letter]

Source: AFP

TEHRAN (AFP) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered Iran's atomic chief on Sunday to enrich uranium to 20 percent, in a fresh challenge to Western powers bidding to rein in Tehran's galloping nuclear drive.

"I had said let us give them (world powers) two to three months and if they don't agree, we would start ourselves," Ahmadinejad said in a speech at an exhibition on laser technology which was broadcast live on state television.

"Now Dr (Ali Akbar) Salehi, start to make the 20 percent with the centrifuges," the hardliner told the atomic chief, who was sitting in the audience.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/wl_afp/irannuclearpolitics

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This is the entire initial news release at this time; more to follow at other sources, I'm quite sure...

[On the Road]

1. It is Important to Get Thorium Power Going

because that will invalidate any plausible reason for enriching uranium.

[Prometheus Bound]

2. Good negotiating move on Iran's part.

[Psephos]

3. This fundy, election-stealing, citizen-murdering regime is a runaway train loaded with dynamite...

...and dead ahead lies City Center Station.

Meanwhile, the world debates whether the train should be going 60 mph instead of 80.