FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
Israel to destroy
Iran nuke plant?
Jerusalem considers pre-emptive strike by summer's end

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Posted: April 26, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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While Iran announced plans to begin building a heavy-water reactor
that can produce weapons-grade plutonium, Israel began drawing up
plans to demolish it - much as it destroyed an Iraqi nuclear facility
more than a decade ago.

Sources in Israel say the attack could come before the end of
summer, according to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

While Tehran insists the facility is purely for research, the decision
heightens concern about Iran's ability to produce nuclear aims.

The 40-megawatt reactor could produce enough plutonium for a
nuclear weapon each year, according to sources.

While construction is set to begin in June, Iran already had previously
announced plans to build such a reactor last year to the U.N. nuclear
watchdog agency.

The reactor site is at Arak, next to an already built heavy-water
production plant. It is to replace a reactor using non-weapons grade
enriched uranium that the Iranians mothballed because they said it
was outmoded and lacked fuel.

Because enrichment can be used both to generate power and make
nuclear warheads, Iran has said it has suspended all enrichment
activities to prove its peaceful intentions. It also cannot buy enriched
fuel on legal markets because of international suspicions about its
intentions.

Observers wonder out loud why Iran, a nation with vast oil reserves,
is so intent on producing nuclear power.

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