Posted on 09/24/2009 2:40:03 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/20268.htm
Iranian Nuclear Chief: We'll Progress In Nuclear Fusion
Iranian Atomic Energy Organization director Ali Akbar Salehi has said that Iran is researching nuclear fusion and that it will make great progress in that area.
Source: ISNA, Iran, September 22, 2009
Posted at: 2009-09-23
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http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/20234.htm
Blog Details Iran: We've Started Producing Improved Centrifuges
Iranian Atomic Energy Organization director Ali Akbar Salehi says that Iran has begun to produce a new generation of improved centrifuges, and that he assesses that Israel is not in a position to attack Iran.
Sources: Fars, ISNA, Iran, September 22, 2009
Posted at: 2009-09-22
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http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/19383.htm
Iranian Website: Enhanced IAEA Supervision – Proof of Iran's Flexibility
The Iranian website Tabnak stated that, by allowing the IAEA to install more cameras in its nuclear facility in Natanz, and by allowing IAEA inspectors to visit the heavy water plant in Arak, Iran had demonstrated its desire to break the deadlock in the nuclear talks, scheduled to reopen in November. The site stated further that Iran was operating 10,000 centrifuges and testing 2,000 more.
Source: Tabnak (Iran), August 21, 2009
Posted at: 2009-08-23
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=55905
NEWS ARTICLE
New Missile Plan Better Suited Against Iran, Gates Says
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2009 – The new U.S. missile defense plan will offer better protection than a previous proposal even if intelligence forecasts on Iran prove wrong, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates escorts visiting Czech Defense Minister Martin Bartak through a cordon of honor guards and into the Pentagon, Sept. 18, 2009. The two defense leaders met to discuss the Obama Administration’s latest decisions regarding missile defense technologies. DoD photo by R. D. Ward
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As opposed to earlier plans to build ground-based components in Poland and the Czech Republic, the new sea-based approach is better suited to intelligence on Iranian threats and would provide protection sooner, the secretary said.
Going a step further, Gates — a former CIA director — said the new arrangement is preferable even if U.S. intelligence assessments that indicate Iran is more focused on developing short-range missiles over long-range capabilities prove incorrect.
“I probably am more familiar with the risks of over-reliance on intelligence than anybody, because I’ve seen how often it’s wrong,” he said. “If the intelligence is wrong, and the Iranians develop a capability sooner than the intelligence is saying, this architecture gives us a better chance of being able to cope with it than the [previous program], just because of the new technologies that are available that give us more flexibility.”
The defense secretary appeared before Pentagon reporters with his Czech counterpart, Martin Bartak, following a meeting that included discussion of the new missile defense system in Europe that President Barack Obama announced yesterday.
In December 2006, Gates recommended to then-President George W. Bush that the United States should put advanced radars in the Czech Republic and 10 ground-based interceptors in Poland. That was when intelligence officials gauged the development of Iran’s intercontinental ballistic missile as the foremost threat to the United States and its allies.
Now, intelligence reports paint a different picture – that the country is moving faster to develop its shorter-range missiles.
“The original program that I recommended would have had no capability against short- and medium-range missiles until probably 2018,” Gates said today. “What the new system provides is some capability beginning in 2011 that will grow steadily each year in terms of its sophistication and its coverage of Europe. The next phase would begin in 2015.”
A drawback to the previous plan was that ground-based interceptors designed to deal with no more than five enemy missiles at once were prone to being overwhelmed by a larger salvo fired simultaneously, Gates said.
“What we have seen with the Iranians is that they’re producing and deploying significant numbers of short and intermediate missiles, and so [a salvo like that] could overwhelm even when the 10 interceptors were in place,” he said, though he added that research will continue on the ground-based system.
After much deliberation, Gates told reporters, his recommendation to Obama was to begin phasing in a missile defense system that puts radars and missiles in place sooner that are more suited to protect against the current threat. Plans are then to continue building on the system to increase its range of defense capabilities.
Deploying the Navy’s ships equipped with the Aegis weapons system to the region by 2011 drives the new plan’s initial phase. Their Standard Missile 3 interceptor has passed several tests in the past two years, and forward-position Army radar systems will support them.
This will give the military a smaller range of detection and protection, but is enough initially to protect U.S. troops and allies against Iran’s shorter-range missiles, officials said.
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Minister of Defense Martin Bartak (right), of the Czech Republic, meets with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (left foreground) at the Pentagon, Sept. 18, 2009. The recent decision by President Barack Obama to cancel the planned deployment of a missile defense system in eastern Europe was at the forefront of the discussions between Gates and Bartak. Also participating in the talks is Czech Ambassador to the U.S. Petr Kolar (center). DoD photo by R. D. Ward
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what’s the long and short of this, Cindy?
what’s the long and short of this, Cindy?
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3781710,00.html
“PM to UN: World must rally against Iran”
SNIPPET: “During General Assembly address, Netanyahu slams Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial; ‘Is this a lie?’ he says while brandishing Auschwitz death camp plans. PM also criticizes UN for failing to condemn Hamas fire on Israel”
News Agencies
Latest Update: 09.25.09, 00:39 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he wants to make peace with the Palestinians and hopes the world will rally against the Iranian nuclear threat.
Speaking before the UN General Assembly in New York, Netanyahu said that “the most urgent challenge facing this body today is to prevent the tyrant of Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.”
The Iranian regime, he said, “Is motivated by fanaticism… They want to see us go back to medieval times. Perhaps some of you think that this man and his odious regime, perhaps they threaten only the Jews. Well, if you think that, you’re wrong. You’re dead wrong,” he said.
“The struggle against Iran pits civilization against barbarism,” Netanyahu told the UN. “This Iranian regime is fueled by extreme fundamentalism.””
It’s fission, not fusion.
Thanks John and Rhonda.
Those are quotes.
I appreciate your input, though.
Also discussing missiles...adding 1 more article:
Published August 2009
Vol. 9, No. 7 25 August 2009
“New Developments in Iran’s Missile Capabilities:
Implications Beyond the Middle East”
by Uzi Rubin
SNIPPET: “Click here to down the powerpoint presentation that accompanied the briefing.”
The question is, once Iran has the capability of building a fission bomb, can the resist the temptation to to ahead and use it against Israel while they’re still trying to build a fusion bomb?
Tidbits I found interesting on the internet — all in English for easy reading and all brief.
Smiling at you...I’m a housewife, not a scientist.
Since your question is so well stated, what is your opinion-speculative answer?
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Right now, I think it's a crapshoot. Spculating on what Ahmadinejad might do involves trying to think like he does, and I'm afraid I'm too sane to be qualified.
I understand your logic tacticlogic.
I don’t know if you find this helpful, but I do keep a page on Iran that show from the bottom to the top link incidents and personalities connected with Iran.
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
I'm not exactly a scholar on Islamic scripture, but there seems to be some prophecy about a "New Caliphate" that's supposed to rise up and dominate the world. If Ahmadinejad believes that prophecy, then that possibility does not exist for him. For him, starting a global nuclear conflict would be just the thing to help usher in that new age of Islam.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347902/posts
“Officials: Iran has revealed existence of a second uranium enrichment plant”
AP via Breitbart ^ | September 25, 2009 | N/A
Posted on September 25, 2009 12:26:23 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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