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| Iran starts enrichment at Natanz site: IAEA |
| 2007-04-19 |
| Iran has assembled some 1,300 centrifuges at a key underground nuclear plant and has started to feed them with the uranium gas necessary for enriching uranium, the UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday. Iran has eight cascades of 164 centrifuges each at a heavily-bunkered underground facility in Natanz and "some UF6 (uranium hexafluoride) is being fed," a diplomat said. The diplomat was quoting to AFP a confidential document the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sent Wednesday to the 35 member states of its board of governors. The IAEA had agreed to "a combination of unannounced inspections and containment and surveillance measures," the diplomat said, adding that the IAEA had backed off from its insistence that cameras had to be installed to monitor the centrifuges. Is there any POINT to continuing this charade? |
| Posted by:Dave D. |
| #7 Don't forget, JosephM, that the head of the IAEA, el Baradai, was involved in starting up Egypt's nuclear weapons development program... which I'm under the impression didn't get very far. He's much more concerned with shielding Iran from interference until a second Muslim Nuclear Bomb is achieved than in enforcing IAEA rules. (Pakistan's was the first, of course.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-04-19 23:11 |
| #6 Don't tell them, but they are running the centrifuge motors backwards, bwahahahah! [/disinformation campaign aimed at MMs] |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2007-04-19 22:47 |
| #5 Is that again? Or still? Or just more? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-04-19 10:26 |
| #4 Why. Don't. We. Bomb. Them. (And by we I really do mean Canada. We've got cash. We could buy a proper airforce if only we had the will.) |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-04-19 08:57 |
| #3 WAFF/UPI/RIAN > IRAN'S WIN-WIN STRATEGY. All signs point to Radical Iran dev nuke weapons one day, but hard or difficult for UNIAEA to specifically prove right now due to swavvy politicking/PC by Moud & Mullahs. IRAN, HOWEVER, IS LIKELY DESPERATE FOR FDI = INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS. * STRATEGYPAGE > ISLAM TRIUMPHANT article > aka How Radical Islamists have RUINED = MADE WORSE every country = areas they've taken over or tried to. WANT TO GOVERN BUT EVIDENCES THUS FAR INDIC DON'T KNOW HOW TO [Rule by Faith, NOT by Fact]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-04-19 02:46 |
| #2 Danking70, Gates means working "in mysterious ways", of course. /sarc Well, at least we know where to hit hard, when time comes. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-04-19 02:01 |
| #1 See also: Gates: Diplomacy With Iran Is 'Working' |
| Posted by: Danking70 2007-04-19 01:13 |