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Iran announces nuclear
projects in defiance of
international pressure

Cody Duty, Houston Chronicle/AP
Dylan Quick, who isa suspect in the multiple stabbings on the Lone Star Cy-Fair Campus, right, is escorted by Harris
County Sherrif's Office investigators after being questioned Tuesday.
Texas commuTnity rockedb
brutal stabbing of 14 people
14 people wounded Cotton said he could not see urged people on campus, about
the girl's injuries, but when he 25 miles northwest of downtown
12 Sent to local and his friends went outside, they Houston, to take shelter and be on
saw a half-dozen people with alert for a second suspect. But the
hospitals, student injuries to their faces and necks sheriff's department said authori-
beingloaded into ambulances and ties believe just one person was
suspect arrested medical helicopters. responsible.
Harris County Sheriff Adrian "It was the same suspect
CYPRESS, Texas (AP) - A Garcia said it was not immediate- going from building to building,"
student went on a building-to- ly clear what type of weapon was department spokesman Thomas
building stabbing attack at a used, but there were indications Gilliland said.
Texas community college Tues- when calls came in to the depart- Garcia said buildings still were
day, wounding at least 14 people ment that "students or faculty being searched hours later, and
- many in the face and neck - were actively responding to work authorities would not provide
before being subdued and arrest- to subdue this individual." more details about the suspect
ed, authorities and witnesses said. "So we're proud of those including his name. Long lines
The attack about 11:20 a.m. on folks, but we're glad no one else of vehicles carrying students
the Lone Star Community Col- is injured any more severely and staff streamed off campus as
lege System's campus in Cypress than they are," Garcia said. law enforcement directed traffic
sent at least 12 people to hospi- Michelle Alvarez told the away from the school.
tals, while several others refused Houston Chronicle she saw the Teaundrae Perryman said he
treatment at the scene, according attacker running toward other was in class when he received
to Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Depart- students and tried to back away. a text message from a friend
ment spokesman Robert Rasa. She said she didn't even feel it as and went outside to see a young
Two people remained in criti- he swiped at her. woman being loaded into an
cal condition Tuesday evening at "He came running and swing- ambulance with what appeared
Memorial Hermann Texas Trau- ing at my neck, as I tried to getout to be stab wounds to either her
ma Institute, spokeswoman Alex of the way," she said. neck or head. He said he didn't
Rodriguez said. Student Michael Chalfan said receive an email alert from the
Diante Cotton, 20, said he was he was walking to class when he college until11:56 a.m.
sitting in a cafeteria with some saw a group of police officers also "I was concerned but I wasn't
friends when a girl clutching her running after the suspect. He said afraid because I was with a large
neck walked in, yelling, "He's one officer used a stun gun to help group of people," the 21-year-old
stabbing people! He's stabbing subdue the man. said, later adding, "The police got
people!" Lone Star 'officials initially to the scene very quickly."

Projects will expand
capacity to utilize
uranium, expanding
Iranian capabilities
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -
With words of defiance, Iran
announced two nuclear-related
projects Tuesday that expand
capabilities to extract and pro-
cess uranium - modest advanc-
es in Tehran's atomic efforts but
ones symbolic of its refusal to
slow nuclear work even as talks
with world powers over the dis-
puted program remain dead-
locked.
The twin sites reflect Tehran's
goal of greater self-sufficiency
through the entire nuclear fuel
cycle from uranium mines to
enrichment labs.
Yet the timing - just days
after the latest round of negotia-
tions ended again in stalemate -
reinforces a broader suggestion
that Iran plans to push ahead
with nuclear projects even at
the potential risk of threatening
the dialogue with U.S. and other
envoys.
It also could amplify ques-
tions about Iran's commitment
to the talks - which have, for
the moment, hushed earlier talk
amongitsadversaries about mil-
itary options - and embolden
calls by some U.S. lawmakers for
even tougher sanctions.
Iran's gambit appears built
around its drive for formal
acknowledgment from Wash-
ington and other capitals of its
"right" to enrich uranium, the
process to make nuclear fuel.
Iran, in tandem, wants the West
to pull back on sanctions in
exchange for some nuclear com-
promises.

The West and its allies,
however, seek to rein in Iran's
nuclear efforts and fear that the
enrichment program could one
day produce material for atomic
weapons.
Iran says it only seeks nuclear
reactors for energy and medical
use. But the tone from Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadine-
jad was taunting on Tuesday to
mark the anniversary of Iran's
first uranium enrichment in
2006.
"You could not block our
access to nuclear technology
when we didn't have it. How
can you take it from our hands
now that we have it?" he said,
addressing the West.
"Iran has gone nuclear," he
added, reiterating past declara-
tions that Iran has comprehen-
sive nuclear expertise. "Nobody
will be able to stop it ... Coopera-
tion with the Iranian nation is
the best solution for you."
In Jerusalem, U.S. Secretary
of State John Kerry repeated that
Washington remained "open to
negotiation" within limits. He
later called the expanded ura-
nium work "not constructive."
"But it is not open-ended,
endless negotiation," he said fol-
lowing talks with Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
whose nation has warned it
could consider military strikes
against Iranian nuclear sites. "It
cannot be used as an excuse for
other effort to try to break out
with respect to a nuclear weap-
on."
Kerry added: "President
(Barack) Obama could not be
more clear: Iran cannot have and
will not have a nuclear weapon."
Mounting nuclear threats
from North Korea, meanwhile,
have only added to internation-
al worries about allowing the

Iranian dialogue to drift indefi-
nitely.
"I think everybody under-
stands that Iran is running out
the clock, has been using the
talks to continue to advance its
nuclear programs," Netanyahu
said, citing the reports of two
new uranium sites in Iran.
Neither represents breakout
technology. Iran already has
uranium mines and the ability
to turn the raw ore into a mate-
rial called yellowcake, which is
the first step in the enrichment
chain.
But the new facilities -
expansion in the country's larg-
esturaniummineandprocessing
facility - give Tehran greater
access and control in making the
raw materials for enrichment to
nuclear fuel and, potentially, for
warhead-grade material.
State TV °'simultaneously
showed ceremonies at Iran's big-
gest uranium mine at Saghand
and a uranium ore concentrate
production plant in Ardakan,
both in central Iran.
Saghand consists of an open
pit with a deep mine reached
by two shafts of more than 335
meters (1,100 feet), according to
the official IRNA news agency.
The mine has a reported capac-
ity of 132,000 tons of uranium
ore per year.
TheArdakanYellowcake Pro-
duction Plant is Iran's industri-
al-scale facility that turns ore
into concentrate, also known as
yellowcake, the feedstock for
enrichment. IRNA said the plant
is capable of producing 66 tons
of yellowcake. About 200 tons
is needed to produce enough
nuclear fuel to run an energy-
producing reactor - similar to
Iran's lone reactor in the Persian
Gulf port of Bushehr - for a year,
nuclear experts say.


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