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Ahmadinejad: Iran Added 3,000 More Centrifuges
2012-02-16
(Naharnet) - Iran announced new strides in its nuclear program on Wednesday, in a defiant blow to U.S. and EU pressure to rein in its atomic activities and amid signs of an increasingly vicious covert war with Israel over the issue.

President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad unveiled on state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
what was described as Iran's first domestically produced, 20-percent enriched nuclear fuel for Tehran's research reactor.

He also said 3,000 more centrifuges had been added to his country's uranium enrichment effort.

And Ahmadinejad said that uranium exploration in Iran had been stepped up and a new yellowcake processing factory would be "pre-launched" next month.

Officials said new-generation centrifuges had been installed at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility that are able to produce three times more enriched uranium than previous models.
Bomb them now. Friday before the start of the Sabbath would be nice, for the sake of the Orthodox missiliers.
The developments underlined Tehran's determination to forge ahead with nuclear activities despite tough sanctions from the West -- and despite speculation that Israel or the United States could be months from launching military strikes against Iran.

Iran portrayed the advances as evidence it was only interested in peaceful nuclear goals, under the slogan "nuclear energy for all, nuclear weapons for none."
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  NEWSMAX > {USDNI Director LTG Ronald Burgess] US INTEL CHIEF: IRAN UNLIKELY TO START [any]CONFLICT, unless it is attacked or provoked first.

* Also from NEWSMAX > PANETTA: ISRAEL SHOULDN'T ACT ALONE ON IRAN. US SecDef Leon + German DM Thomas De Maiziere'.

Various Perts + Bloggers around the MSM-Net feel similarly, i.e. believe Israel can't + shouldn't attack Iran by itself.

* SAME > [Sky News] FEAR IRAN HELPING ["core" = Ayman] AL-QAIDA FOR SPECTACULAR ATTACK, agz the US-West, e.g. 2012 London Olympics, in retaliation for any US or Israel milstrike on Iran or revenge for the successful US SEAL-led raid on Osama Bin Laden at Abbottabad.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-02-16 23:47  

#6  #5 - or, per Spengler's rule #1: A man or a nation at the brink of death does not have a "rational self-interest
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2012-02-16 13:42  

#5  I think some of the libs in Foggy Bottom running our Middle Eastern policy would rather eat glow in the dark caviar than eat anything raised or grown in Israel.

It seems to me that the only thing keeping all of the Iranian nuke sites from being glow in the dark smoking craters is the US heel dragging and sniveling around espousing a "diplomatic solution."

The libs and most diplomats never learn you cannot negotiate a treaty with someone who will either not negotiate or has no intention of honoring the treaty once the ink is dry.

We could have put an end to this crap in Iran years ago.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2012-02-16 12:23  

#4  Should say the "elites in Washington" instead of just the libs. All of them like the regular, non-glowing caviar!
Posted by: Slindsey   2012-02-16 08:55  

#3  I mean the libs in Washington can't have glow in the dark caviar you know

Not a problem.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-02-16 07:01  

#2  Who is going to clean that mess up after a bomb is dropped.

I mean the libs in Washington can't have glow in the dark caviar you know...
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2012-02-16 00:32  

#1  More indigenous advanced NG Centrifugies + more Reactor thingys set up around the country.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-02-16 00:18  

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