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IRAN'S NUCLEAR SECTOR CAN RECOVER QUICKLY FROM ATTACK.

Vice-President for Atomic Energy Qolam Reza Aqazadeh-Khoi, who heads the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, said in a 6 February interview with state television that Iran can recover from an attack on the Bushehr nuclear facility fairly quickly. There would be economic damage, he acknowledged, but Iran's know-how, designs, and capability would not be damaged. Even the physical damage can be repaired, he said, because of the lessons learned in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War. Turning to Iran's mastery of the nuclear-fuel cycle and ability to produce UF6, Aqazadeh-Khoi said there are only seven or eight factories in the world that can make UF2, UF6, uranium oxide, and uranium metal. BS

source: RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 9, No. 24, Part III, 7 February 2005