ISRAEL MUST HAVE NUKES TO SECURE ITSELF FROM IRANIAN THREAT. Usborne, David, and Andreq Grice. "Ahmadinejad Has Enough Uranium to Go Whole Way' - Middle East, World - The Independent" The Independent | News | UK and Worldwide News | Newspaper. 26 Sept. 2009. Web. 25 Aug. 2010. 1793483.html>. Iran had previously insisted that its plant at Natanz, which is open to international inspection, was the only one involved in enrichment. The new revelation sharply raises the stakes at a time when Israel has been signalling that military strikes against Iran are on the table. ran's first response was one of familiar defiance. "If I were Obama's adviser, I would definitely advise him to refrain from making this statement because it is definitely a mistake" President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview with Time magazine in New York. Western sources said the plant at Qom, 120 miles southwest of Tehran, is not yet operational. But it is designed to hold about 3,000 centrifuge machines, which would provide the uranium needed to produce one atomic bomb a year. "Iran has enough uranium to go the whole way" one Western diplomat said. A senior US official said that number of centrifuges could not produce enough uranium to make sense commercially for power generation. "But if you want to use the facility to produce a small amount of weapons-grade uranium, enough fora bomb or two a year, it's the rightsize"
