Iran Now Has Enough Uranium For Bomb: UN Admits Miscalculation
Iran has built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations officials acknowledged on Thursday.
In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear programme, UN officials said Iran had produced more nuclear material than previously thought.
They said Iran had accumulated more than one tonne of low enriched uranium hexafluoride at a facility in Natanz.
If such a quantity were further enriched it could produce more than 20kg of fissile material – enough for a bomb.
“It appears that Iran has walked right up to the threshold of having enough low enriched uranium to provide enough raw material for a single bomb,†said Peter Zimmerman, a former chief scientist of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
The new figures come in a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, released on Thursday. This revealed that Iran’s production of low enriched uranium had previously been underestimated.
When the agency carried out an annual stocktaking of Natanz in mid-November Iran had produced 839kg of low enriched uranium hexafluoride – more than 200kg more than previously thought. Tehran produced an additional 171kg by the end of January.
“It’s sure certain that if they didn’t have it [enough] when the IAEA took these measurements, they will have it in a matter of weeks,†Mr Zimmerman said.
Iran’s success in reaching such a “breakout capacity†– a stage that would allow it to produce enough fissile material for a bomb in a matter of months – crosses a “red line†that for years Israel has said it would not accept.
UN officials emphasise that to produce fissile material Iran would have to reconfigure its Natanz plant to produce high enriched uranium rather than low enriched uranium – a highly visible step that would take months – or to shift its stockpile to a clandestine site.
No such sites have been proved to exist, although for decades Iran concealed evidence of its nuclear programme.
A senior UN official added that countries usually waited until they had an enriched uranium stockpile sufficient for several bombs before proceeding to develop fissile material. He conceded that Iran now had enough enriched uranium for one bomb.
“Do they have enough low enriched uranium to produce a significant quantity [enough high enriched uranium for a bomb]?†he said. “In theory this is possible, [although] with the present configuration at Natanz it isn’t.â€
David Albright, the head of the Institute for Science and International Security, said: “If Iran did decide to build nuclear weapons, it’s entering an era in which it could do so quickly.â€
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Now Israel will to do what the world is unwilling to do… save itself.
Nothing to see here move along, move along
That picture is worth a thousand nightmares.
Let carpet bombing begin.
Let me guess, the democrats will blame BUSH! For this! They will say he dragged his feet for eight years. But the truth is
after the fall of Iraq if the left would not have gone out of it’s way to embolden our enemy’s, and instead joined the rest of America in defeating our enemy’s, we would have bombed these swine back to the stone age within 6 months of the fall of Iraq, resulting in stopping most of the insurgency that killed Americans over the last 4 years. That would have completely changed the current dynamic in the middle east. It would not be perfect, but we would have almost all these ass hats, including the Palestinians wide eyed at this point.
The Iraniac Mullocracy has made their intentions very clear. The only way that their Mahdi can return is if Israel is destroyed.Too bad Cyrus and Artaxerses are turning over in their graves about now at that prospect.; knowing what they knew about Israel and how the God that never sleeps watches over his people day and night.
In the end, Iran will suffer the consequences and Ahmedinajihad will be sucking wind. Him and the rest of his delluded followers of the prince of liars.
The outcome is already known. Not to worry Israel. God has your six, even if “teleprompter Jesus” and his bitch Hitlery does not.
NOW IS THE TIME to take it to the iraniacs. Fuck the UN and their nuclear watch-, er, LAPdog IAEA. They’ve fucked up enough already. Can the world afford to keep believing those lying, incompetent cocksuckers?
GO GETEM ISRAEL
Time to implement Bush’s Iraq Exit Strategy…
Exit Iraq through Iran
Iraq, I think, was in addition to the more direct goals was originally intended to be this era’s and that region’s “Tour of the Great White Fleet”. WWI was on the verge, and Japan was already stirring. TR sent the new and mighty US fleet on a pointed world tour that along with “big stick” diplomacy and stamping out some “bushfires” postponed WWI for ten years and kept the Japanese mostly in a box for three plus decades. The DemoRATS “torpedoed” Bush’s “Tour”, a nuclear Iran, Islamofascists resurgent, Israel essentially at war again, and more dead Americans were a price that they were willing to pay to put little Barry in the White House.
The mullahs scrapped their nuke program after we took Afghanistan and Iraq. They knew we were just looking for an excuse to settle old scores. The only reason we invaded Iraq instead of Iran was that we not only had plenty of causus belli but have been officially at war since Desert Storm. Saddam never lived up to his cease-fire obligations, and Clinton basically fought a low-scale war against him.
After the fall of Baghdad, the less delusional mullahs got the message and didn’t do anything to earn an ass-kicking, but then they watched the Left tear this country to pieces and decided that we didn’t have the will to fight another war. Thanks, Nancy!