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Asia Times by Jim Lobe | Sep. 28, 2009 (News Report)

Iran, as if on cue, ahead of international talks this week on its nuclear program, on Sunday and Monday test-fired both long-range and short-range missiles. Coming hard on the heels of reports of a second Iranian plant to enrich uranium, Tehran has some explaining to do. Full Story »

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by James Canning - Sep. 28, 2009

Good, balanced story. It might have made clearer the fact Iran seemed to have planned to be able to enrich U-235 to weapons grade if it decided to proceed with developing a nuclear weapon (or weapons) without this becoming known to the world. Marc Lynch (quoted in the article) has a good take on the effect this development could have.

I agree with Marc Lynch that this development potentially could help resolve the problem of lack of adequate transparency (of Iran's nuclear program).