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Iran's Nuclear Bazaar
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Vladimir Putin agreed Monday to sell the mullahs sophisticated air-defense missile systems. Now China plans to join Russia in building new nuclear reactors for the Islamic Republic. Oil-rich Iran has little need for the one nuclear power plant it already has in Bushehr, but it wants five more. The reactors will open more paths to nuclear-weapons capability. Reactors "can be copious producers of plutonium suitable for nuclear weapons," notes Henry Sokolski of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. He adds that building a small clandestine reprocessing plant to extract the plutonium "is actually easier than putting up a centrifuge plant" such as those Iran has at Natanz and Fordo.