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| Iran nuclear head says new centrifuges built |
| 2009-09-23 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's nuclear chief said Tuesday the Islamic Republic had built a new generation of centrifuges as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned that his country was ready to confront the "forces of darkness" from anywhere in the world. "Our scientists have built new generation of centrifuges and cascades with 10 centrifuges each are now being tested," Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency. Salehi said the new generation of centrifuges can enrich uranium with "more than five times the output capacity" of the earlier standard centrifuges and that Iran "plans to raise this capacity to 10 times." Iran and the world powers are at loggerheads over Tehran's decision to continue enriching uranium, the process which can generate the raw material to make an atomic bomb. The atomic chief's statements came shortly after Ahmadinejad, speaking at an army parade marking the anniversary of the eruption of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, renewed his demand that U.S.-led foreign forces operating in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan leave the region. "We advise you to go back to your own land. Our region will never accept a lengthy presence of foreigners," the re-elected president, dressed in his trademark light-color jacket and wearing sunglasses, said at the ceremony attended by top military and administrative officials. "As you saw in Iraq and Afghanistan, people are against the presence of foreigners. It is impossible (for foreign troops) to have a stable base in the region," added Ahmadinejad, who according to state television left Iran shortly after the parade, bound for New York where he is to attend the U.N. General Assembly meeting. During the parade, Iranian military pick-up trucks were seen sporting large banners proclaiming, "Death to Israel" and "Death to America." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Why are they telling us? Seems like they would want to keep this quiet unless it has greater propaganda value than military value. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-09-23 10:50 |
| #2 WMF > IN ANY SINO-US WAR, GIVEN THE PRESENT TECHS SUPERIORITY OF THE USA, CHINA'S FOCII SHOULD BE "TO NOT LOSE" [Survivable/manageable stalemate-defeat], NOT TO FIGHT FOR OVERWHELMING MILITARY VICTORY. It is also in Chin's interests to help its Amer enemy "NOT LOSE" ITS AMER WAR AGZ CHINA??? IOW, not unlike Muslim military history, CHINA = MUSLIMS = LIKES TO FIGHT "LONG WARS", NOT US-WEST FAVORED "SHORT/BRIEF WARS". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-09-23 03:18 |
| #1 ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [RUSS Generals Vladimir Dvorkin, Victor Yesin] IRAN'S MISSLE PROGRAM HAS POTENTIAL GREATER THAN NORTH KOREA'S. Collectively, RUSSIA > believes that IRAN already possesses 3000-KM range Ballistic Missles, and desires to dev 4000-KM-AND-BEYOND STRATEGIC LR ICBMS come Year 2015 or shortly after [indigenous Iran-improved 'Dual Use", MIL-CIV SPACE, "SHAHAB" BMS]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-09-23 03:12 |