Tehran
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said this week Iran would "celebrate" its mastery of the nuclear fuel cycle within three months. "We want to produce nuclear fuel, and we have to install 60,000 centrifuges," Ahmadinejad said. The Iranian leader said he hoped "to hold the big celebration of Iran's full nuclearization" by February, to coincide with the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The U.S. and other Western countries accuse Iran of seeking to build nuclear weapons. Iran insists its program is intended to produce electricity. But the International Atomic Energy Agency said this week it had found unexplained traces of plutonium and enriched uranium in an Iranian nuclear waste facility, and it said Iran was still hiding some of its programs.
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