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Deeper Than Oil: A Day Out at an Iranian Nuclear Reactor

19:41 20/02/2012 Weekly column by Marc Bennetts

I’m no expert of course, but security at the Tehran nuclear reactor where I spent last Valentine’s Day seemed a touch on the lax side. Aside from a metal detector and a poster of the late Ayatollah Khomenei, there didn’t really seem to be much else safeguarding the facility ahead of what promised to be a milestone event for Iran’s disputed atomic program.

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