Iran may move its uranium enrichment services to safer locations if this becomes essential a senior military commander said on Wednesday, dazzling Iran's worries about a possible military strike against the sites. Both the US and Israel have not ruled out a military option beside Iran's controversial nuclear program, which the West suspects is aimed at making atomic weapons.
Iran denies the charge, saying the program is geared toward generate electricity and producing medical radioisotopes desirable to treat cancer patients. Gholam Reza Jalali, who commands an anti-sabotage unit in the powerful Revolutionary Guard, said the susceptibility of Iran's nuclear facilities from a probable strike is "already minimal" but that the move still may go through for their better protection.
"If conditions require, we will move (our) uranium enrichment services to safer locations," Jalali was quoted by the semi-official Mehr news agency as saying. Iran's main uranium enrichment site in Natanz in central Iran is built partly subversive while the long-secret Fordo facility was built deep inside a mountain as a safety measure from aerial attacks. Jalili said the existing infrastructure has previously been "a kind of deterrent" against attacks.
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