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2021-08-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IAEA: Iran producing uranium metal, which can be used in nuclear bomb
[IsraelTimes] UN nuclear watchdog says Tehran produced 200g of material enriched up to 20%, in further departure from deal.

With the chances of a return to the 2015 nuclear deal fading, 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...
has progressed with producing uranium metal, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Monday.

"On 14 August 2021, the Agency verified... that Iran had used 257g of uranium enriched up to 20% U-235 in the form of UF4 (uranium tetrafluoride) to produce 200g of uranium metal enriched up to 20% U-235," the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency wrote, according to Rooters.

Uranium metal can be used as a component in nuclear weapons. Iran had signed up to a 15-year ban on "producing or acquiring plutonium or uranium metals or their alloys," under the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed in 2015 with world powers.

Iran previously told the UN nuclear watchdog that it was advancing research on uranium metal production, saying it is aimed at providing advanced fuel for a research reactor in Tehran.

The IAEA added that the move was step three in a four-step plan, the fourth being the production of a reactor fuel plate, according to Rooters.

But Iran has insisted its nuclear activities are peaceful and that it is not aiming at building a weapon.

Former United States president Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
pulled out of the deal in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions that have choked Iran’s oil-dependent economy. Iran has responded by walking back measures it had agreed to abide by, including enriching uranium to unprecedented levels, near weapons-grade.

Talks kicked off in April in Vienna to find a way to bring both parties back to the deal. But the last round took place on June 20, with no date set for when they would resume. The EU chairs the meetings.

US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
, Trump’s successor, has signaled his readiness to return to the nuclear deal and has engaged in indirect negotiations with Iran alongside formal talks with the agreement’s remaining parties, Britannia, China, La Belle France, Germany, and Russia.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-17 00:01|| || Front Page|| [15 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 
For Stinky stuff and Giggles, lets say its a given they have built a 10+ KT dirty nuke.


But I'd bet y'all saying they could never get it into the USA.

So let me share some publicly available historical info. Back in 2002, then Senator Biden was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He asked a few US nuclear labs IF a terrorist group could construct an Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) nuclear weapon using nothing but commercially obtainable parts. It took them just a few months to report back YES and with a working model. They also did so without any illegal activities and avoided setting off any NEST warning flares.

Then Biden had them bring their home-built device to the Senate, minus the Nuke source.

See congressional record CREC-2002-06-26
Start reading at Page 11 bottom right and continues. But the real interesting part is page 13 lower left column and continues.

So the question is NOT IF, BUT WHEN & WHERE a Iranian type Nuke will be popped. Followed by what will Tehran look like 30 days later.
Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-17 06:54||   2021-08-17 06:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Page 13 is a good read.

"Late in 2001, two containers containing enormous amounts of radioactive strontium-90 were found by
hunters in the woods of the Republic of
Georgia. The sources were so hot that
they melted the snow for yards around,
leading the three woodsmen to cart
them off to warm their tent."
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-17 07:50||   2021-08-17 07:50|| Front Page Top

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