Photo: Soldiers man an anti-aircraft gun outside Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment complex in 2006. An Iranian official said the nation would begin constructing a new enrichment facility by next March (Behrouz Mehri/Getty Images)Iran To Begin Work On New Enrichment Plant In 2011 -- Global Security Newswire
Iran plans to start work by next March on a second uranium enrichment facility, the Associated Press reported Saturday (see GSN, June 11).
The Middle Eastern state has maintained that its nuclear program is strictly peaceful, but the United States and other Western powers have expressed concern that Tehran could tap its enrichment capability to produce highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. The nation's leaders have endorsed plans for 10 enrichment facilities in addition to its existing site at Natanz (Associated Press/Google News, June 12).
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