U.S. Official: Iran Operating Newer, More Advanced Nuclear Centrifuge

Iran is operating a newer, more advanced centrifuge at the country's Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant at Natanz, a State Department official who works on arms control and WMD issues has confirmed to FOX News.

To enrich uranium to the high levels needed for a nuclear weapon, centrifuges are assembled in groups of 164 — known as "cascades."

Mastery of a single cascade is an extremely difficult process, but once that is achieved it is fairly easy for an industrialized country to attain a nuclear weapons capability because it requires only the building of more cascades and enough fissile uranium to feed into them.

This is one of the best things we have going for McCain. He has the guts and the cojones to knock Iran's nuclear ambitions back by 10 years or so. Which we can very easily do. By dropping bunker busters and other explosives on their nuclear sites.

There really is no other candidate who will do this.

I just wish I knew all the unintended consequences of such a strike. Unfortunately, no one does.

Not to worry. Barry has it under control:

“Sen. Barack Obama said Friday that as president he would personally negotiate with Iran, offering economic incentives and a chance for peaceful relations if Iranian leaders would forego pursuit of nuclear weapons and support of terrorists.

Citing a long history of progress through diplomatic gestures toward China and the former Soviet Union, Obama laid out in stronger terms his call for diplomacy with Iran — a policy with greater emphasis on negotiation than the Bush administration policy and a stance that has been ridiculed by his fellow Democratic presidential candidates.

“It has consequences not only for our strategic interests, it has consequences for our troops in Iraq and it has consequences for our economy,” Obama told NBC’s “Today” show.

He said in an interview with The New York Times that Iran could possibly be rewarded with membership in the World Trade Organization and other economic benefits if the country shows “changes in behavior.”

The Democratic presidential candidate discussed his hopes for diplomacy after introducing a Senate resolution late Thursday that says President Bush does not have authority to use military force against Iran, the latest move in a debate with presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton about how to respond to that country’s nuclear ambitions.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307516,00.html

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