Iranian Nuclear Plant is Powering Up

The first Iranian nuclear power plant is powering up and will be able to provide electricity to the nation’s cities by next month, according to Vice President Ali Akba Salehi.
The Iranian leader was quoted by the semi-official Fars news service as saying the 1,000-megawatt light-water nuclear reactor built by Russia in Bushehr has been loaded with enough fuel for the plant to go online.

Israel and the United States, as well as a number of other Western nations are convinced that Iran is intent on building a nuclear weapon of mass destruction, rather than simply producing nuclear energy for peaceful domestic purposes, as it claims.
The United Nations Security Council has repeatedly ordered Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program, which it refuses to do, and has since imposed four rounds of increasingly severe economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic as a means of forcing it to do so.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, often threatens in public speeches to annihilate the State of Israel.