Iran says it has enlarged its stockpile of uranium enriched to top levels, in defiance of United Nations demands that it halt the program. The Vice President, Ali Akbar Salehi, also says Iran has build a plant to create nuclear fuel plates and rods in Isfahan. That would allow Iran to make its own reactor fuel. But Western specialist have disputed whether Iran has the technological ability to produce plates and rods when Tehran has complete similar claims in the past. And Israel's departure intelligence chief, Meir Dagan, said last week that he believe Iran will not be able to construct a nuclear weapon before 2015 at the earliest.
The Israeli newspapers Yediot Aharonot and Maariv, gave famous coverage to Mr Dagan's leaving after eight years as the director of Mossad, the intelligence service, and his astonishingly upbeat assessment of Tehran's nuclear ability. The assessment, which pushed back other Israeli guess by a year or more, was base on the obstacle Iran has faced, including technical difficulty and covert action beside its nuclear program by intelligence agencies. But Mr Salehi, who is also Iran's performing foreign minister, said on Saturday that Tehran currently has 40 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20 per cent, up from 30 kilograms statement in October.
Uranium enriched to 20 per cent is sufficient to make fuel for a medical research reactor but far below the more than 90 per cent necessary to build fissile material for nuclear warheads. A deal for the West to give fuel for the reactor has fallen separately in the deadlock over Iran's broader nuclear program, which the West suspect is planned to expand atomic bombs. Iran denies the allegation, and says the plan is peaceful. Iran says fuel for the Tehran research reactor that create the medical radioisotopes will run out in September, exit it without the materials wanted to diagnose and treat 850,000 cancer patients across the country.
The Israeli newspapers Yediot Aharonot and Maariv, gave famous coverage to Mr Dagan's leaving after eight years as the director of Mossad, the intelligence service, and his astonishingly upbeat assessment of Tehran's nuclear ability. The assessment, which pushed back other Israeli guess by a year or more, was base on the obstacle Iran has faced, including technical difficulty and covert action beside its nuclear program by intelligence agencies. But Mr Salehi, who is also Iran's performing foreign minister, said on Saturday that Tehran currently has 40 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20 per cent, up from 30 kilograms statement in October.
Uranium enriched to 20 per cent is sufficient to make fuel for a medical research reactor but far below the more than 90 per cent necessary to build fissile material for nuclear warheads. A deal for the West to give fuel for the reactor has fallen separately in the deadlock over Iran's broader nuclear program, which the West suspect is planned to expand atomic bombs. Iran denies the allegation, and says the plan is peaceful. Iran says fuel for the Tehran research reactor that create the medical radioisotopes will run out in September, exit it without the materials wanted to diagnose and treat 850,000 cancer patients across the country.
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