Iran loading fuel into Bushehr
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11045537
Scientists from Iran worked to fuel the reactor
Iran has begun loading fuel into its first nuclear power station in a ceremony attended by Russian officials.
Russia will operate the Bushehr plant in southern Iran, supplying its nuclear fuel and taking away the nuclear waste.
Iran has been subject to four rounds of UN sanctions because of its separate uranium enrichment programme.
Experts say that as long as the plant is Russian-operated, there is little immediate threat of its fuel being diverted to make bombs.
From Washington, the US state department said that it saw no “proliferation risk” from the plant. The UK also said had “always respected” Iran’s right to civilian nuclear power.
Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has promised a global response if his country is attacked, in an interview with Qatari daily Al-Sharq published today.
“Our options will have no limits… They will touch the entire planet,” he said in reply to a question about Tehran’s reaction in the event of such an attack.
Iran’s arch-foes the United States and Israel have never ruled out military strikes against Tehran to halt its nuclear programme which they and other Western powers suspect is aimed at making weapons.
Tehran denies the charge, saying its atomic programme has purely peaceful goals.
“I believe that some think about attacking Iran, especially those within the Zionist entity (Israel). But they know that Iran is an indestructible bulwark and I do not think their American masters will let them do it,” Ahmadinejad said.
“They also know that the Iranian response will be hard and painful,” he added.
The UN Security Council in June slapped its fourth set of sanctions on Iran over its refusal to halt its uranium enrichment work.
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sort of anti-climactic..so..where do we go now?..if this was the reactor that israel would never let be built..and it is now built..what happens next?
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Israel will probably wait a while, maybe until many of the Russians have gone home…then.
might be right!