Posted on 11/7/2007, 10:53:18 AM by america4vr
Iran has achieved a landmark, with 3,000 centrifuges fully working in its controversial uranium enrichment program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Wednesday.
"We have now reached 3,000 machines," Ahmadinejad told thousands of Iranians gathered in Birjand, in eastern Iran, in a show of defiance of international demands to halt the program believed to be masking the country's nuclear arms efforts.
Ahmadinejad has in the past claimed that Iran succeeded in installing the 3,000 centrifuges at its uranium enrichment facility at Natanz. But Wednesday's claim was his first official statement that the plant is now fully operating all those centrifuges.
When Iran first announced launching the 3,000 centrifuges in April, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Tehran had only 328 centrifuges up and running at Natanz's underground facility.
In a recent report, drawn up by IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei, the agency put the number of centrifuges working in Natanz at close to 2,000, with another 650 being tested.
Uranium gas, spun in linked centrifuges, can result in either low-enriched fuel suitable to generate power in a nuclear reactor, or the weapons-grade material that forms the fissile core of nuclear warheads.
The U.S. and some of its Western allies believe Iran is using its civilian nuclear program as a cover for weapons' development. Tehran denies this, insisting its nuclear program is geared toward generating electricity, not a nuclear bomb.
U.S. experts say 3,000 centrifuges are in theory enough to produce a nuclear weapon, perhaps as soon as within a year.
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...not for long
A LooK at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
since IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei is married into one of the more prominent families in iran, how in the hell will anything be done by the UN to stop them....... it won’t
.... and that narrows down the options
If he says 3000, you can bet it’s more like 10000+. And still we do nothing.
You're not saying we're missing the latitude/longitude for that facilty, are you? That would be a problem. Otherwise, we should be OK.
Did you say it'll require a heavy-duty bunker-buster? Again, no problem, so long as we have the lat/lon.
HF
“U.S. experts say 3,000 centrifuges are in theory enough to produce a nuclear weapon, perhaps as soon as within a year.”
And you are right, with 10,000 spinning Ahmamurderijad could have his bomb by Christmas. He has the plans, the technical knowledge, the experts and the delivery system.
We are in big, big trouble, and all the while the Demoncrats want to impeach Dick. They are all treasonists.
That’s all right. I just means that it will show up brighter in the debris field that’s left.
it’s an old article true
but we just all watched Isreal take out a Syrian nuke plant
I believe the Syrian facility was considerably more vulnerable in that they didn’t take the precautions the Iranians have in protecting their reactors from attack.
“but we just all watched Isreal take out a Syrian nuke plant”
I think they only took out the one meant to be found
..I put more faith in Israeli intelligence then that
What does surprise me is the absolute silence...????..was it because the Syrians were that close to "doing it" and had to be taken out....or were they ashamed of their incompetence of protecting themselves
“What does surprise me is the absolute silence...????..”
hopes it would blow over in the media and cut attention in their direction so they could continue with the real one maybe
ping
How about the perceived consensus desire/need to get four countries' (Series, Putin-on-a-show, DemonRat-PeepsRK, Ahmanutjob-in-mullahsville) crunched toes all on one message before aggravating one another's toe-pain by going public without any one of those being off-point and spilling beans that dare not be spillt?
Just as with the Kurintonz, they perceive a stunningly strong need for secrecy. One wonders why that would be--NOT!
HF
At this point immafrigginnutjob has won the battle, to incite the war he needs to fulfill his moongods end of days prophecy, we need to make it an utterly devastating display of the lunacy of mu-ham-ed...
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