IRAN IS SUDDENLY RESUMING WORK TOWARD A-BOMB

From The New York Sun

LONDON — Iran has broken the seals on nuclear equipment monitored by United Nations inspectors and is once again building and testing machines that could make fissile material for nuclear weapons.

Tehran’s move, disclosed to the Daily Telegraph yesterday by Western sources, breaks a deal with European countries under which Iran suspended “all uranium enrichment activity.” It will also exacerbate fears that the regional power is determined to make an atomic bomb within a few years.

Enrichment is the most controversial part of Iran’s “peaceful’’ nuclear program because the same technology used to make low-enriched uranium to fuel nuclear reactors can be used to refine material for bombs.

America has in recent weeks renewed its call for Iran to be referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. Diplomats said senior officials from the “EU-3’’ — Britain, France, and Germany — would try to coax Tehran back to the path of co-operation at a secret meeting in Paris on Thursday.

Their chances of success seem slim because Tehran appears to have calculated that America is paralyzed by the presidential election campaign and that Europe is too divided to exert real pressure.

How long before the mad mullahs have the bomb?
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