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| IAEA: Iran Enriching Uranium Gas |
| 2007-04-20 |
| Iran has started enriching small amounts of uranium gas at its underground plant and is already running more than 1,300 of the machines used in the enrichment process, according to an International Atomic Energy Agency document obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. The confidential document — a letter to Iranian officials from a senior IAEA staff member — also protests an Iranian decision to prevent agency inspectors to visit the country's heavy water facility that, when built, will produce plutonium. Enriched uranium and plutonium can both be used for the fissile core of nuclear warheads. Last week, Iran said it had begun operating 3,000 centrifuges at its Natanz facility, nearly 10 times the previously known number. The United States, Britain, France and others criticized the announcement, but experts, and several world powers, expressed skepticism that Iran's claims were true and diplomats in Vienna familiar with the state of the program told the AP they were greatly exaggerated. Still, the one-page letter reflected a swift advance in the program. A little more than two weeks ago, those diplomats had said Tehran was running only a little more than 600 centrifuges, and had not introduced any uranium gas into them. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Zenster: Perhaps I used the wrong choice of words, but the fact remains that we are having our asses handed to us in any number of forums. Far too many of our armed forces are dying due to the testicular atrophy you refer to and that is where I was placing the focus of my comments; the lack of leadership in Washington by members of both sides of the aisle. Yes I will agree that at the grass roots level this is the greatest country and I do see that every day in the faces and labors of all those I work with and pass by on the roads; but these same folks have to a large degree lost their political compass, it is reduced to being influenced by 30 second sound bites and the rantings on lunatics that the MSM is only far too happy to render homage (and air time) to. I stand by my statement; until we have a smoking hole where there was once a US ZIP Code, you are going to nothing of substance come from the general population. One example: Why hasn't Nevada started a recall against Reid for not only his latest sleazeball remarks but for his borderline criminal real estate deals? Maybe when I see evidence that folks are trying to take back their part of the country then I will defer to your point of view, but until then, I must respectfully disagree. |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2007-04-20 22:57 |
| #7 i respectufully disagree with you zenster. 40 percent of this country will actively assist work against ANY american interests as they are sore that the ussr fell apart before they could live in their peoples utopia. they are still seething in anger of all things american and will until there is a severe enough shock to show them the nature of this enemy beyond their ability to rationalize away. |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2007-04-20 22:12 |
| #6 Maybe then the sheeple of this once great country will wake up. What's this "once great country" horseshit? America is still the greatest nation on earth and I challenge you to deny it, USN, Ret.. This country doesn't need a terrorist nuclear attack to wake it up, it needs coherent leadership capable of articulating the danger that confronts us. No-fucking-one seems to have the testicular endowment to step up to the plate on this subject and the political legacy of our current leadership — republican and democratic alike — will go down as among the very worst in our nation's history. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-20 17:04 |
| #5 Let them play and go ahead and smoke a US city. Maybe then the sheeple of this once great country will wake up. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-04-20 11:57 |
| #4 Time to loose the Israeli's. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2007-04-20 05:58 |
| #3 Lest we fergit, KUCINICH.US [Feb 2007] > claims vv Russ mil analysts that Putin has ordered elite Russian special forces and other units to enter Iran and militarily protect-secure Russia's "vital interests" in that country, AGAINST ANYONE INCLUDING US/US-LED FORCES, espec as per nuclear power plant [but not limited to]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-04-20 02:49 |
| #2 That's okay, let's redeploy the troops in Iraq to Candyland. Name Murtha governor of Candyland. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2007-04-20 00:50 |
| #1 Are we too afraid to assume the worst? |
| Posted by: Thrush B. Hayes7260 2007-04-20 00:39 |