Iran steps up production of weapons-grade uranium

The title is the headline in the Independent.co.uk. Compare the headline to the actual story.

The nuclear brinkmanship between Iran and the West is expected to step up a gear amid predictions that Tehran is about to announce that it has begun industrial-scale production of enriched uranium.

Iran has started installing about 3,000 centrifuges, the machines that can turn uranium into fuel for nuclear reactors or bombs, at a huge plant in Natanz - a prime target if the US or Israel conclude that there is no other way to stop Iran acquiring the bomb. [emphasis mine]

Omar goes into a department store and buys kitchen knives which can be used to prepare food for a meal or, OMG, stab his wife, kids and neighbors to death! He has to be stopped.

In this case I think "or" is the operative word.

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Be afraid. Be very afraid. Yeah, right.

Iran's efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the material used to make nuclear bombs, are in chaos and the country is still years from mastering the required technology.

Iran's uranium enrichment programme has been plagued by constant technical problems, lack of access to outside technology and knowhow, and a failure to master the complex production-engineering processes involved.

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