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Can Iran produce its own nuclear fuel? Free

18 January 2010
csmonitor.com: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will make its own higher enriched nuclear fuel, effectively rejecting a UN-backed exchange proposal that would have eased Western fears about Iran's nuclear program."I declare that by the grace of God, the Iranian nation will produce 20 percent enriched uranium and anything it needs itself," Ahmadinejad told thousands of people in the central city of Isfahan last month.Yet analysts cast doubt on Iran's technical and industrial capacity to fulfill that pledge.
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