Washington Post: Obama Thinks Netanyahu Authorized Leaks on Iran

inn ^ | 2//15/15 | Elad Benari

[Nachum]

Amid reports that the Obama administration is refusing to share information regarding Iran with Israel as “punishment” for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech before Congress, The Washington Post’s David Ignatius on Monday provided new details into the tensions between Jerusalem and Washington.

According to Ignatius’s column, the mistrust between the Obama administration and Netanyahu has widened even further in recent days because of suspicion in the United States that the Israeli prime minister has authorized leaks of details about the U.S. nuclear talks with Iran.

“The decision to reduce the exchange of sensitive information about the Iran talks was prompted by concerns that Netanyahu’s office had given Israeli journalists sensitive details of the U.S. position, including a U.S. offer to allow Iran to enrich uranium with 6,500 or more centrifuges as part of a final deal,” wrote Ignatius.

“Obama administration officials believed these reports were misleading because the centrifuge numbers are part of a package that includes the size of the Iranian nuclear stockpile and the type of centrifuges that are allowed to operate. A deal that allowed 500 advanced centrifuges and a large stockpile of enriched uranium might put Iran closer to making a bomb than one that permitted 10,000 older machines and a small stockpile, the administration argues,” he continued.

[Nachum]

President Thin Skin strikes again.

[Nachum]

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[BenLurkin]

Hard to Gruber the American public about a deal with Iran — if the American public has access to facts.

[JPG]

[Timber Rattler]

Obama pissed off that Bibi is spilling the beans about Kerry giving away the bomb to Iran.

[Steven Tyler]

Why all the Secrecy?
Will the Senate get to read the details before they vote??

The Senate should announce that EVERY 0bama treaty or agreement will not be recognized by the Senate, nor the House Reps

[SunkenCiv]

Fact check time: The horse's ass Obama got all pissy (like the candy-assed closeted homo that he is) regarding the invitation to Netanyahu -- a man Zero had systematically disrespected while undermining Israel's security, the said there's be a price to pay.

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[faithhopecharity]

Gawd! He used to tie one big whooper of a lie each day. Now he seems to be moving to an hourly schedule.
How does he manage it, what with 218 complete rounds of golf and 457? fundarising trips and speeches and shake-downs

(what’s he still raising funds for, anyway?)

we may have the Ferengi version of Superman here, gang...
never has to sleep....

[Rome2000]

They don't need any centrifuges for peaceful nuclear power generation.

Centrifuges are only needed to make a bomb.

[rockinqsranch]

The fact the a-hole is negotiating with the Iranians alone should be enough in the minds of intelligent, “Normal” people this guy has to be impeached, and NOW.

[Joe Boucher]

President mooselimb!

[Rome2000]

http://www.iranwatch.org/our-publications/articles-reports/irans-nuclear-timetable

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[Rome2000]

This report (12/2/2014) estimates how soon Iran could fuel a nuclear weapon. With its thousands of gas centrifuges, Iran now has the ability to enrich uranium to a grade suitable for use in nuclear reactors or to a higher grade suitable for use in nuclear warheads. The data below, which are based on reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency, describe Iran’s uranium stockpile, its centrifuges, and the rate at which its nuclear capacity is growing. [a]

Highlights:

• By using the approximately 9,000 first generation centrifuges operating at its Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant, Iran could theoretically produce enough weapon-grade uranium to fuel a single nuclear warhead in about 1.7 months.

• Iran's more advanced IR-2m centrifuges, about 1,000 of which are installed at Natanz, would allow Iran to produce weapon-grade uranium more quickly.

• Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium is now sufficient, after further enrichment, to fuel approximately seven nuclear warheads.

• Because Russia has a ten-year contract to fuel Iran’s only power reactor at Bushehr, Iran has no present need for enriched uranium to generate civilian nuclear energy.

• Iran could fuel approximately 25 first generation implosion bombs if it had the ability to enrich the uranium needed to supply the Bushehr reactor annually.

Bomb potential of Iran's low-enriched uranium

• Total amount of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) enriched to approximately 3.5 percent U-235 produced as of October 2014:
  13,397 kg [b]

• Amount of this material ready for further enrichment (i.e., stored in gaseous form) as of October 2014:
  8,390 kg [c]

• Amount theoretically needed to produce a bomb's worth of weapon-grade uranium metal:
  1,053 kg [d]

• Number of first generation implosion bombs this 8,390 kilograms could fuel, if further enriched:
  7 [e]

• Time needed to convert this uranium to one bomb's worth of finished uranium metal enriched to 90 percent U-235:
  3 - 12 months [f]

• Date by which Iran's uranium stockpile probably was sufficient to fuel one first generation implosion bomb, if further enriched:
  February 2009 [g]

• Approximate number of first generation IR-1 centrifuges being fed with UF6 at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant, as of the last reported visit by IAEA inspectors:
  9,000 [h]

• Number of months theoretically needed for these 9,000 centrifuges operating at their present capacity to produce enough enriched uranium for one bomb:
  1.7 [i]

Civilian need for this uranium

• Approximate amount of low-enriched uranium needed annually to fuel Iran’s sole civilian power reactor at Bushehr:
  21 metric tons [j]

• Percent of this uranium Russia will supply under a ten-year fuel contract:
  100 [k]

• Number of years it would take Iran's 9,000 operating IR-1 centrifuges at Natanz to produce one year's worth of fuel for Bushehr:
  10.7 [l]

• Approximate number of separative work units (amount of enrichment work)[m] Iran would need to generate in order to produce one year's worth of fuel for Bushehr:
  100,000 [n]

• Number of IR-1 centrifuges Iran would need to operate in order to produce this level of work annually:
  128,000 [o]

• Approximate number of first generation implosion bombs Iran could fuel if able to enrich the uranium needed to supply Bushehr annually:
  25 [p]

Comments

• Before using uranium in a warhead, it must be enriched to weapon-grade (90 percent or more U-235) and processed into a metallic shape sufficient to explode in a chain reaction.

• This assessment assumes that Iran would use 16 kg of weapon-grade uranium (~90 percent U-235) in the finished core of each nuclear weapon. Sixteen kilograms are assumed to be sufficient for an implosion bomb. This was the amount called for in the implosion device Saddam Hussein was trying to perfect in the 1980’s, and the design for such a device has circulated on the nuclear black market, to which Iran has had access. Some experts believe that Iran could use less material, assuming Iran would accept a lower yield for each weapon. According to these experts, Iran could use as few as seven kilograms of this material if Iran’s weapon developers possessed a “medium” level of skill, and if Iran were satisfied with an explosive yield slightly less than that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. [q] If Iran chose to use an amount smaller than 16 kg, the time required to make each weapon would be less than estimated here. Or, in the amount of time estimated here, Iran could make a greater number of weapons. Iran could decide not to use such a smaller amount of weapon-grade uranium if Iran wanted to have more confidence that its weapons would work, or if it wanted to reduce the size of its weapons by reducing the amount of high explosive required.

• Iran has converted 337.2 kg of 20 percent enriched uranium gas (or 227.6 kg of uranium) into oxide form, producing 162.3 kg of uranium, some of which has been used to produce fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor. If it is not irradiated in the reactor, this material could be returned to gaseous form and enriched to weapon grade. However, it would not be sufficient to fuel more than one nuclear weapon and it is unclear how long it would take to convert and further enrich the material.

• Uncertainties about the number of centrifuges that Iran is operating make it difficult to draw a conclusion about the performance of individual machines. An increase or decrease in the production rate could be attributed to the fact that more machines were operating when IAEA inspectors were not present at the plant, rather than because the machines were operating more efficiently. [r]

• Following start-up, centrifuge cascades must be operated for a time without product withdrawal. This process is called passivation.

[Rome2000]

Because Russia has a ten-year contract to fuel Iran’s only power reactor at Bushehr, Iran has no present need for enriched uranium to generate civilian nuclear energy.

[tet68]

A deal that allowed 500 advanced centrifuges and a large stockpile of enriched uranium might put Iran closer to making a bomb than one that permitted 10,000 older machines and a small stockpile, the administration argues,”

While Iran prepares to destroy Israel, Obama wonders
how many liberals can dance on the head of a pin...

Lord help us.

[elpadre]

I believe they have excluded Israel from the talks because Iran demanded it. And - whatever Iran wants, Iran gets.

[digger48]

Act Stupidly and Carry A Big Selfie Stick

http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/02/branco-cartoon-act-stupidly/

[elpadre]

I believe they have excluded Israel from the talks because Iran demanded it. And - whatever Iran wants, Iran gets.

[Karl Spooner]

Did you see where they spilled the beans on Israel’s hydrogen bomb intentions?