mad mushroom party

let's get one thing straight: there really is a good reason to doubt iran's claim that they want to enrich uranium for peaceful use as reactor fuel, namely, they don't have any nuclear reactors!

that said, only a couple possible reasons exist to enrich uranium: 1) to make weapons or 2) to provoke a preventive attack by the US or, more likely, israel, who iran would expect to act as a surrogate to hide US involvement. iran's response would be all-out war on israel with right and world opinion on iran's side, since israel would've fired the first shot, thus playing into iran's game.

but wait! did i say get it straight? according to my 1997 world almanac, as of the end of 1995 the IAEA said iran had under construction 2 reactors capable of generating a total of more than 2000MW.

so what's going on?

as the mad hatter said, i haven't the slightest idea.