The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Islamist shock troops in charge of Iran’s nuclear arms program, said last week that the speech by President Obama in Cairo had legitimized the nuclear program.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has said Iran has conducted illegal uranium enrichment outside of established safeguards. Iran has followed the model for another would be nuclear weapons state, North Korea, by first joining the IAEA in order to gain access to nuclear technology and then abandoning the controls imposed by that membership in seeking nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, another Majilis member, Ahmad Bozorgian, was quoted by Teheran’s state-run press as saying that the government planned to increase the number of centrifuges used to enrich uranium to 84,000.

Bozorgian said Iran currently has 7,000 centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear facility. “Also, 25,000 centrifuges are in the preliminary phases of installation,” he stated. “Planning has also been done for the production of more than 52,000 centrifuges and these centrifuges are now under production inside the country.”

 

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