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Can their program be destroyed? The military options against the mullahs.

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| October 23, 2006 | Loyola, Mario | COPYRIGHT 2006 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

AT Natanz, about 130 miles from Tehran, the Iranian regime is constructing a vast "commercial scale" uranium-enrichment facility that will house as many as 55,000 centrifuges. Deep under several meters of steel-reinforced concrete, conveniently out of reach of the most powerful known conventional bunker-busters, the facility will be able to produce sizeable quantities of lightly enriched uranium (LEU) in a matter of months once it is operational. The steps required to enrich LEU all the way to highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium are few and have been described by experts as purely mechanical.

Some have argued that operational launch of these main "enrichment ...

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