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The Big Chill

March 1, 2010 14:17
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"Iran sits on 50 percent of the world's energy supplies and if it wants, Europe will spend the winter in a chill," Hossein Salami, a leading commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, said yesterday when he addressed Basij militiamen in the Iranian city of Kerman.

If it has 50% of the world's energy supplies already, why does Iran need a nuclear enrichment programme "for peaceful civilian use"?