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2021-03-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran has started enriching uranium at its underground Natanz plant with a second type of advanced centrifuge, the IR-4
Unexpectedly. The Biden administration is as effective as we anticipated.
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Last year Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
started moving three cascades, or clusters, of different advanced models of centrifuge from an above-ground plant at Natanz to its below-ground Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP). It is already enriching underground with IR-2m centrifuges. The deal only lets it enrich there with first-generation IR-1 machines.

"On 15 March 2021, the Agency verified that Iran began feeding the cascade of 174 IR-4 centrifuges already installed at FEP with natural UF6," the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency said in the report to member states dated Monday, referring to uranium hexafluoride, the form in which uranium is fed into centrifuges for enrichment.

Iran has indicated that it now plans to install a second cascade of IR-4 centrifuges at the FEP but installation of that cascade has yet to begin, the report said. Iran has already increased the number of IR-2m machines, which are far more efficient than the IR-1, installed at the underground plant.

"In summary, as of 15 March 2021, Iran was using 5,060 IR-1 centrifuges installed in 30 cascades, 522 IR-2m centrifuges installed in three cascades and 174 IR-4 centrifuges installed in one cascade, to enrich natural UF6 up to 5% U-235 at FEP," the IAEA report said, referring to the fissile purity of uranium.

Iran is enriching up to 20% purity at another plant, Fordow.
Posted by Fred 2021-03-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 ...So, if I have this straight, at this point the Iranians are saying, "Lift the sanctions or we'll do more of what we weren't supposed to be doing but were doing anyways"...?

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-03-17 05:39||   2021-03-17 05:39|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ "And pay us"
Posted by Frank G 2021-03-17 07:00||   2021-03-17 07:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Bombed First World War tunnel found, with remains of 270 German soldiers still in it
Posted by Skidmark 2021-03-17 09:28||   2021-03-17 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 To misquote: I'm expecting an earth-shattering boom.
Posted by Mercutio 2021-03-17 10:45||   2021-03-17 10:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Is that a whistling sound coming from the west?
Posted by ed in texas 2021-03-17 17:29||   2021-03-17 17:29|| Front Page Top

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