Iran refining nuclear fuel in underground facility.
Iran has begun making nuclear fuel in its underground uranium enrichment plant, the international atomic watchdog said on Wednesday, in a move by Tehran that raises the stakes in its showdown with world powers.
A confidential note by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also said Iran had started up more than 1,300 centrifuge machines in an accelerating campaign to lay a basis for "industrial scale" enrichment in the Natanz complex.
...Iran has installed hundreds of centrifuges within weeks and aims to have 3,000 operational by next month. That could be enough to refine uranium for one bomb within a year, if Iran wanted to and if the machines ran for long periods without breakdown -- a proficiency Iran has yet to demonstrate.
We can hope for problems, I suppose.
The U.N. continues to unleash every devastating weapon in its Soft Power Arsenal, and not without results. I understand someone in the Iranian government suffered a severe papercut from a five page stern letter on the good U.N. stationery.