The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi stated that “close to 20 sites” for new nuclear enrichment plants have been earmarked and construction of two of them could begin this year itself. It is interesting to note that the Iranian New Year begins on March 21.1

• 1. ‘Iran earmarks sites for 10 uranium plants’, Khaleej Times, February 22, 2010 at http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2...