Iran accelerates nuclear program
By The Associated Press
This article was published February 9, 2010 at 11:19 a.m.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level on Tuesday over the objections of the United States and its allies who fear the process could eventually be used to give the Islamic republic nuclear weapons.
Even before the announcement U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he believed the U.N. should slap new sanctions on Iran in “weeks, not months,” according to his spokesman Tuesday.
France and the U.S. said Monday that Iran’s action left no choice but to push harder for a fourth set of U.N. Security Council sanctions to punish Iran’s nuclear actions. Russia, which has close ties to Iran and has opposed new sanctions, appeared to edge closer to Washington’s position, saying the new enrichment plans show the suspicions about Iran’s intentions are well-founded.
Iranian state television said that the process began in the presence of inspectors from the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency.
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