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| Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks beneath a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini on Monday during a visit to the 2nd National Festival of Innovation and Prosperity in Tehran. Iran upped the stakes over its nuclear ambitions by announcing intentions to build 10 nuclear power plants, increase the size of its missile defense shield and enrich uranium at yet another higher level. (Getty Images)
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Iran Takes Another Escalation Step Toward Building Nuclear Bomb |
Increasingly testing an impatient West, defiant Iran took another worrisome turn by confirming plans to begin processing its uranium stockpile to higher levels of enrichment. Its intentions set off alarm bells among nuclear-energy experts because they represent another leap toward producing a nuclear bomb. “This is worrying because it’s another small step up the escalation ladder,” said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association in Washington.
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