Iran Using Arab Spring As Cover To Accelerate Nuclear Program -- HaaretzIran appears as keen as always to produce nuclear weapons, amid reports about increasing cooperation with North Korea.
The unrest and uprisings in the Arab world are distracting the international community from Iran's nuclear program. Iran is taking advantage of the situation to accelerate its efforts. The head of Iran's atomic energy agency, Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi Davani, announced this week that his country would continue to enrich uranium. He said enrichment would be done at both the country's facilities: to 3.5 percent at Natanz to produce fuel for nuclear reactors that would produce electricity, and to 20 percent at the fortified underground facility near Qom, intended for the research reactor in Tehran to produce isotopes for medicinal purposes.
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My Comment: The media's attention (and diplomatic/political core) may be focused elsewhere .... Arab spring, financial/debt crisis, etc. .... but intelligence services are not. But its cooperation with North Korea (if true) is the most troubling to me .... because it will be North Korea that provides the perfect cover for Iran to assemble and obtain information/materials to have an undeclared (but present) nuclear arsenal.