This article is
very relevant with our current conversations in class. It is about
an alleged explosion heard at the Fordo Nuclear Facility. Recently
there has been planned talks between the US and Iran about their nuclear
activity. When asked about it, Saeed Shamseddin Bar Broudi, deputy of the
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said that it was "Western
Propaganda" designed to influence the outcome of the negotiations. The
Iranian parliament's national
security and foreign affairs committee also denied the reports.
A leaked report by the International Atomic Energy Agency stated
that the Fordo facility is ready to double its output of medium-enriched
uranium. Experts say that the uranium could be enriched to weapons-grade in a relatively
short amount of time. Tehran says that its nuclear activities are only peaceful
but Western nations are still obviously concerned.
It is very ironic that the US provided so much support with
weapons and nuclear technology in the past and is now worried that the very
nation we supported will attack us. Things, perhaps, may have been different if
the US had not sided with the Shah during the conflicts in the 80s. It is
unfortunate that money, in this case in the form of oil, drives all of the
world's powers.
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