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— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008
No, Iran's not stepping up it's nuclear program
Published Mon, May 14 2007 6:58 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, War on Terror, United Nations, Annoyances, Middle East, Iran
Remember Dennis Kucinich's articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney? Remember that the third article discusses Cheney's belligerent threats against Iran? Remember how Iran is a peaceful nation and how it's the United State's that's the real problem?
Well now even the New York Times has to deal with the fact that Iran's not only working on weapons grade uranium, but they're stepping up their program. Apparently they've had a breakthrough and can enrich uranium even faster now...
VIENNA, May 14 — Inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded that Iran appears to have solved most of its technological problems and is now beginning to enrich uranium on a far larger scale than before, according to the agency’s top officials.
The findings may change the calculus of diplomacy in Europe and in Washington, which aimed to force a suspension of Iran’s enrichment activities in large part to prevent it from learning how to produce weapons-grade material.
In a short-notice inspection of Iran’s operations in the main nuclear facility at Natanz on Sunday, conducted in advance of a report to the United Nations Security Council due early next week, the inspectors found that Iranian engineers were already using roughly 1,300 centrifuges and were producing fuel suitable for nuclear reactors, according to diplomats and nuclear experts here.
Until recently, the Iranians were having difficulty keeping the delicate centrifuges spinning at the tremendous speeds necessary to make nuclear fuel and were often running them empty or not at all.
Now, those roadblocks appear to have been surmounted. “We believe they pretty much have the knowledge about how to enrich,” said Mohammed ElBaradei, the director general of the energy agency, who clashed with the Bush administration four years ago when he declared that there was no evidence that Iraq had resumed its nuclear program. “From now on, it is simply a question of perfecting that knowledge. People will not like to hear it, but that’s a fact.”
"People will not like to hear it, but that's a fact."
Can we stop pretending that Iran is a peaceful nation without any plans to harm the west? Can we stop ignoring Ahmadinejad's threats yet? Perhaps now the U.N. will actually do somethings? Can we get an apology out of Dennis Kucinich? Or should I just keep breathing, knowing that if I hold my breath waiting I'll die of asphyxiation?
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