Posted on 11/27/2013 8:51:32 AM PST by Dave346
Iran will pursue construction at the Arak heavy-water reactor, Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif was quoted as saying on Wednesday, despite a deal with world powers to shelve a project they fear could yield plutonium for atomic bombs.
France, one of the six powers that negotiated Sunday's interim pact with Iran to curb its disputed nuclear program, said in response to Zarif's statement that Tehran had to keep to what was agreed in the Geneva talks.
The uncompleted research reactor emerged as one of several big stumbling blocks in the marathon negotiations, in which Iran agreed to restrain its atomic activities for six months in return for limited sanctions relief. The agreement is intended to buy time for talks on a final settlement of the dispute.
Western powers fear Arak could be a source of plutonium - one of two materials, along with highly enriched uranium, that can be used for the core of a nuclear weapon - once it is operational. Iran says it would produce medical isotopes only.
According to the agreed text, Iran said it would not make "any further advances of its activities" on the Arak reactor, under construction near a western Iranian town with that name.
"Capacity at the Arak site is not going to increase. It means no new nuclear fuel will be produced and no new installations will be installed, but construction will continue there," Zarif told parliament in translated comments broadcast on Iran's Press TV.
When asked about this, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said: "In the interim accord, the Arak reactor is specifically targeted and the end of all work at this reactor. In the agreement and the text, which has been approved by the Iranian authorities, the Arak reactor is clearly targeted."
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Thank Eil Golan, too.
Surely the surrounding countries can use some drinking glasses.
Has it not occurred to those paying attention that Iran might already have all the components it needs for the nuclear bombs? Reports for several years have again and again projected they were months, even weeks away from finishing all the components. All they were missing was the billions of dollars being held up in sanctions. It’s an easy game to now pretend that they’ll not do what they have already completed. Now they also have those billions, thanks to Obama. Do doubt Obama knows already what they have.
Release the Israeli Kraken.
According to the agreed text, Iran said it would not make "any further advances of its activities" on the Arak reactor, under construction near a western Iranian town with that name. "Capacity at the Arak site is not going to increase. It means no new nuclear fuel will be produced and no new installations will be installed, but construction will continue there," Zarif told parliament in translated comments broadcast on Iran's Press TV.Thanks Dave346. Iran should be allowed to have the Bomb -- just not in the way they want. Forecast for Tehran, 5000 degrees.
Send that to Paul Shanklin-—It needs a couple more verses.
Oh, yeah, that reactor is targeted, alright. Question is, will France or any other nation hit it soon enough? Or is it time for many Iranians and their hundreds of millions (at least) of fellow descendants in other nations to be pulled and inexorable all the way to their final end?
What “agreement” are they talking about? I don’t think Iran ever said they had agreed to anything. Obama and Kerry are the ones who said they’d reached an agreement.
Indeed, the State Department has now admitted as much. No deal has been signed...there are a number of "technical issues" yet to be negotiated...the clock doesn't start running until those issues are resolved...and everybody actually signs on.
In the meantime, of course, we've already handed over the keys to the frozen assets and lifted the sanctions.
It's evident why Obama and Kerry were in such a rush. Obama's TV appearance late Saturday announcing "Peace In Our Time" turned the focus of the Sunday morning shows from the Obamacare embarrassment to the Iran "success".
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