Iranian TV gives crash course on nuclear enrichment

The Pennisula:

Feeling the international pressure over Iran’s nuclear programme, the Islamic republic’s state television network has embarked on giving the Iranian public a crash course in the joys of atomic power.

In a series of primetime spots entitled “Towards Tomorrow”, viewers are informed how Iran mines and converts uranium-parts of the nuclear fuel cycle and the focus of Western suspicions that the clerical regime is seeking the bomb.

But keeping true to Iran’s assertion it only wants to light up homes-and not attack arch-enemy Israel-state television is drumming home the message of “nuclear electricity, sustainable development and enrichment”.

Viewers are shown male and female scientists in green or white overalls, while animated graphics and video footage help explain the science behind Iran’s extensive nuclear drive.

“Acquiring this technology is important and praiseworthy, and rightly deserves to be guarded,” the infomercials assert, without mention of demands from Europe and the United States that the country abandon the fuel cycle drive altogether.