Iran's Nuclear Program

WaPo's editorial:

Iran turned down the proposal. Now there is no further room for obfuscation, and no further reason to give Iranians the benefit of the doubt: The real aim of the Iranian nuclear program is nuclear weapons, not electric power.

Those in Washington and elsewhere who have always believed that the Iranians want nuclear weapons have a right to feel that their skepticism was justified.

What remains to be seen is whether the Europeans will come through, as they have promised they would, with a tough-minded push for sanctions.

-- LynZee
Related: Iran Going Nuclear

Update: 4,000 Centrifuges
An Iranian dissident said Tehran has manufactured about 4,000 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade.

Alireza Jafarzadeh told AP that the centrifuges are ready to be installed at Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz.

"These 4,000 centrifuge machines have not been declared to the IAEA, and the regime has kept the production of these machines hidden from the inspectors while the negotiations with the European Union have been going on over the past 21 months," Jafarzadeh said Tuesday in a telephone interview from Washington.