Is Iran Defiant or Desperate?

SHOOT: Iran says they need to build nuclear power stations for electricity. This investment could conceivably free up oil resources for export. The US and mainstream media are insisting the nuclear facilities are for weapons. But then they would, as a pretext for invasion/controlling access to Iranian oil resources.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Iran touted the expansion of enrichment as necessary for its plans to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity through multiple nuclear power plants in the next 20 years.