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Iran has now officially gone insane.
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| NeoPhono |
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/...4.sw653dwn.html
| quote: | Iran confirms stepping up nuclear activities
Jun 09 8:14 AM US/Eastern
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An Iranian official has confirmed that the country has stepped up its nuclear activities, following a report from the UN atomic agency that said Iran has accelerated uranium enrichment.
"Iran has started another stage of injecting hexafluoride gas into centrifuge machines," the student news agency ISNA quoted an unnamed official as saying on Friday.
"Iran is also pursuing a plan to have a 3,000-centrifuge cascade by the end of the current year (March 2007)," he noted, adding that all the material used in uranium enrichment facilities has been produced domestically.
A report from the International Atomic Energy Agency obtained by AFP on Thursday said that Iran had accelerated uranium enrichment on June 6, the same day world powers asked it to halt the work and open talks to guarantee it will not make nuclear weapons.
On that Tuesday, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana visited Tehran to present a package of benefits aimed at enticing Iran to suspend uranium enrichment.
Enriched uranium makes nuclear reactor fuel, and in a highly refined form can produce atom bomb material.
"Iran is continuing its installation work on other 164-machine cascades," said the report from the IAEA chief, Mohamed ElBaradei.
Iran built the cascade as a pilot plant for what it hopes will eventually be an industrial plant of more than 50,000 centrifuges, used to refine the uranium 235 isotope.
Iran started last August to make feedstock uranium hexafluoride gas, which it then fed into centrifuges in February this year. It produced enriched uranium beginning in April.
The quality of enriched uranium being produced in April was appropriate for nuclear reactor fuel and was not the highly-enriched variety needed to make weapons.
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| shaolin_Z |
Good, they could really use those nukes right about now.  |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
Good, they could really use those nukes right about now. |
Guess you missed that last line...
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...The quality of enriched uranium being produced in April was appropriate for nuclear reactor fuel and was not the highly-enriched variety needed to make weapons.
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I thought they were close to a deal?
What are they up to? :conf: |
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| metalgearsolid |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
I thought they were close to a deal?
What are they up to? :conf: |
They probably are not interested in the deal as they are in making weapons and energy from Nuclear. |
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| Q5echo |
| there is no other alternative they want. they want war. it's very simple. |
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| Kapedan |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
there is no other alternative they want. they want war. it's very simple. |
then we'll give them war!!!!!! :whip: :whip:
:p :p |
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| venomX |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
Guess you missed that last line...
I thought they were close to a deal?
What are they up to? :conf: |
Their preparing a counteroffer at the moment >>Source << They're probably going to keep enriching until they reach an agreement. Both sides are willing to co-operate so i think it's just a matter of time until they reach some sort of agreement. |
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| BrenLuxor |
| quote: | Originally posted by venomX
Their preparing a counteroffer at the moment >>Source << They're probably going to keep enriching until they reach an agreement. Both sides are willing to co-operate so i think it's just a matter of time until they reach some sort of agreement. |
I dunno, the Iranians will never be in a better position to get nuclear weapons as America is bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq and the last thing the American puclic would want is another war that would make Iraq look like a playground fight.
Some may see the fact that the US has so many troops close to Iran as putting the US at an advantage (so did I immediately after the occupation of Iraq/Afghanistan) but I think its the other way round now.
The US and Iran both know that if the US were to strike at Iranian nuclear targets then Iran has about 150,000 Americans it can attack with great ease.
Most of Irans neighbours in the region are scared of Iran getting nuclear weapons but they are also scared that not only will Iran disrupt oil supplies if she is attacked but it may also strike targets in these countries as Iran could claim they have helped the US to attack it.
So I think the neighbours will be unwilling to allow US troops to use their countries to attack Iran.
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| wizniz |
| we wanted war. march 10th whether or not they had weapons, was to be the launch date |
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| wizniz |
| and by we i mean the united states or specifically, g bush |
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| Sunflower |
| I dont think americans would be against an aerial bombing of specific site. |
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