Posted on 11/27/2004, 6:48:32 PM by milwguy
BERLIN, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Iran is working on a secret nuclear programme for military purposes despite promising the European Union it would halt all activities related to uranium enrichment, the news magazine Der Spiegel said on Saturday.
The magazine said it had obtained documents from an unnamed intelligence agency showing that Iran had dug a secret tunnel near an Isfahan facility preparing raw uranium for enrichment, even though operations there had been stopped.
Iran, which has repeatedly denied trying to develop nuclear weapons, promised the European Union on Nov. 14 it would halt all activities related to uranium enrichment, a process that creates atomic fuel for power plants or weapons.
It then demanded an exemption for some 20 enrichment centrifuges for research purposes, a move Western diplomats argued could torpedo the whole deal. They said Iranian officials in Vienna dropped the demand on Friday, but were waiting for a final decision from Tehran.
Der Spiegel, in an advance release of a report due to appear on Monday, said the secret underground facility near Isfahan could soon be ready to produce large amounts of uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6). Centrifuges that spin at supersonic speed can produce enriched uranium from UF6.
The magazine said that according to the intelligence documents, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei personally issued a directive at the start of October to build the secret tunnel.
As usual the MSM fails to report the reason behind iran's activites. Had europe stood up with the US, Britian, Austrailia, Italy and the other members of the coalition, iran would be wondering if they were the next target.
However, france and germany are so insecure and yet arrogant, they thwarthed the US actions. Lybia caved in before they realized how unstable and irrational the europeans are. iran and north korea would have not been as resistant about inspections and closing down their operations if they felt an attack was possible.
But, the MSM will never place the blame where it belongs. Instead they will continue to spew the lies that the Bush Administration failed to put and end to the ambitions of iran and north korea.
France and Germany will foreever be pieces of rat excrement. And throw the MSM on the dung heap of history too. They all belong there.
Iran will be bombed.
With no second thought about it.
I'm shocked shocked to find gambling in this casino.......
Remember Jock's words to Tony Blair concerning helping America with the war in Iraq. I believe he said something like you will get nothing out of it, The Americans don't remember how to return a favor'
I really believe that we should cut off all aid to these countries that have proven not to be our allies. Their economy is in the Crapper, so let them go down. The money we will save, 2 Billion from Egypt alone can be better used somewhere else. The Sudan, Poland, even here in our own country. The same for the UN itself. We can do a lot better if we were not mixed up with this International Gangster Org. Pull out and throw them out.
The Bunker--buster bombs technology funds were killed just recently.
The rest of the article:
" Diplomats say the Iranian attempt to exempt some centrifuges from the deal struck with the European Union was infuriating both the EU, which is offering Tehran a package of economic incentives in exchange for freezing enrichment activities, and Washington which is adamant Iran is trying to produce nuclear arms.
Oil-rich Iran says it wants nuclear power only to meet booming domestic demand for electricity. "
In the long run, I can't see that there is any way to stop nuclear proliferation. If a bomb can be made, it will be made, whether clandestinely or not. In fact, the United States, itself, was once extremely active in trying to spread nuclear power plant construction thruout the world (a step, it seems to me, toward the whole process of nuclear proliferation). I met a nuclear engineer just this week who said he closed a deal to build Iran's first nuclear power plant back in 1968. He told me the cost of that project at that time was $15 million.
I don't believe that for a minute!
But on the other hand didn't we just develop a bigger bunker buster bomb?
Only the nuclear ones. We've got some "interesting" non-nuclear bunker busters now.
No the MOAB, while a heck of a big bomb, is not a bunker buster. More of an area clearance bomb.
No, I think I read somewhere recently that they increased the size of the BBB to about 25,0000 pounds.
It's another of those measure/countermeasure leapfrogging contests.
The question is whether the bunker-builders can raise the ante to where "conventional" explosives absolutely cannot be made to work.
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