Images show Iran’s Arak plant is operational
The Telegraph says Tehran operating Arak heavy-water production plant in effort to produce plutonium which can be used to make nuclear bomb. Plant protected by anti-aircraft missiles
The images show signs of activity at the Arak plant, located 150 miles south-west of Tehran, including a cloud of steam that indicates heavy-water production.
Mark Fitzpatrick, a former US State Department official told the British newspaper that Arak could be part of a process that might trigger Western strikes on Iran.
“Some think Israel’s red line for military action is before Arak comes online,” he said. “The option of a military strike on an operating reactor would present enormous complications because of the radiation that would be spread,” he warned.
IAEA inspectors have been trying to visit the facility since August 2011 and Iran has refused repeated requests for information about the site.
IAEA inspectors unable to visit Arak plant (Photo: GettyImages)
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The Telegraph can disclose details of activity at a heavily-guarded Iranian facility from which international inspectors have been barred for 18 months.
The images, taken earlier this month, show that Iran has activated the Arak heavy-water production plant.
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British newspaper Daily Telegraph releases satellite footage indicating that a heavy-water factory is in operation at nuclear plant near Arak, an element in the production of plutonium, an alternative to uranium used to build nuclear bombs.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/iran-pursuing-nuclear-bomb-through-plutonium-production-new-satellite-images-reveal-1.506051
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The Telegraph says Tehran operating Arak heavy-water production plant in effort to produce plutonium which can be used to make nuclear bomb. Plant protected by anti-aircraft missiles
The images show signs of activity at the Arak plant, located 150 miles south-west of Tehran, including a cloud of steam that indicates heavy-water production.
Mark Fitzpatrick, a former US State Department official told the British newspaper that Arak could be part of a process that might trigger Western strikes on Iran.
“Some think Israel’s red line for military action is before Arak comes online,” he said. “The option of a military strike on an operating reactor would present enormous complications because of the radiation that would be spread,” he warned.
IAEA inspectors have been trying to visit the facility since August 2011 and Iran has refused repeated requests for information about the site.
IAEA inspectors unable to visit Arak plant (Photo: GettyImages)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4350002,00.html
World powers, Iran wrap up crunch nuclear talks
Two days of talks in Kazakhstan conclude with no sign of breakthrough; experts to meet in Istanbul in mid-March, negotiations to resume early April
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4350119,00.html
Iran’s ‘Plan B’ for a nuclear bomb
Iran is developing a second path to a nuclear weapons capability by operating a plant that could produce plutonium, satellite images show for the first time.
The Telegraph can disclose details of activity at a heavily-guarded Iranian facility from which international inspectors have been barred for 18 months.
The images, taken earlier this month, show that Iran has activated the Arak heavy-water production plant.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9896389/Irans-Plan-B-for-a-nuclear-bomb.html
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Revolutionary Guard officials are helping Hamas and Islamic Jihad extend their range, report says
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranians-in-gaza-guiding-rocket-development/
Iran pursuing nuclear bomb through plutonium production, new satellite images reveal
British newspaper Daily Telegraph releases satellite footage indicating that a heavy-water factory is in operation at nuclear plant near Arak, an element in the production of plutonium, an alternative to uranium used to build nuclear bombs.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/iran-pursuing-nuclear-bomb-through-plutonium-production-new-satellite-images-reveal-1.506051
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