Sorry to rain on your parade harbourlights, but it's weapons grade uranium, not plutonium and yes Iran has been making weapons grade HEU. Samples
were found from the snap inspection of a hidden underground nuclear facility at Netanz.
Iran had previously assured the IAEA that it was only enriching Uranium to 1.2% U235. In fact Uranium samples were found at Netanz with various stages
of enrichment up to 70%. Bomb grade is about 90% upwards.
One sifts and resifts uranium in a centrifugal bowl under heating to continuously keep re-enriching it, thus 70% is well on the way to bomb grade and
there was no reasonable peaceful reason to enrich it to that level for nuclear power.
There have also been samples taken at the University of Tehran which prove the reactor there was used to separate Plutonium from spent nuclear
fuel.
Iran is known to have imported tons of Tributylphosphate from China for the purpose of plutonium separation in 1992.
The full nuclear cycle is from mining the ore, obtaining the metal oxides, mixing the oxide with flourine gas in a compound for enrichment, enriching
the uranium with centrifuges, compiling the Uranium fuel into fuel rods with the precious metal Zirconium to clad the fuel rods, operating the
reactors, obtaining heavy water and then separating Plutonium from the spent fuel rods, disposal of the remaining nuclear waste.
That is what the term nuclear fuel cycle means. Makeitso the above should answer your question at the very start of this thread and no this is not a
bluff. It is verified by IAEA inspections.
It would be interesting for him to define exactly what "fully possesses the whole nuclear fuel cycle" is supposed to mean in reality.