Their stunning punch to the West is... nuclear capabilities for peaceful ends? Oh. Okay.
Iran is now a 'nuclear state', President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced this morning.
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He spoke as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Tehran to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
Despite fears of violence, opposition supporters found themselves largely overwhelmed by the clerical regime and pro-government demonstrators.
The massive security clampdown appeared to succeed in preventing protesters from converging into a cohesive demonstrations.
Large numbers of riot police, members of the Revolutionary Guard and Basij militiamen, some on motorcycles, deployed in back streets near key squares and major avenues in the capital to move against protesters.
This morning Ahmadinejad announced to scores of cheering Iranians that the Islamic Republic is capable of producing weapons-grade uranium.
Today President Ahmadinejad announced that the Islamic Republic had produced its first batch of 20 per cent enriched uranium. He is pictured here at the Natanz nuclear plant
Read the whole story/more pictures here: Iran Revolution day protests: Islamic Republic now a nuclear state | Mail Online
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