Posted on 04/13/2006 5:34:28 AM PDT by unionblue83
Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani announced on Tuesday that Iran had successfully enriched uranium at a heavily-fortified buried facility in Natanz, southwest of Tehran, raising the specter that the U.S. and its allies would take pre-emptive military action against Iran.
Long considered a “moderate” by many in the West, Rafsanjani has been a key figure in Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program since 1985, when he sponsored a series of conferences to entice exiled nuclear scientists to return to Iran.
By announcing the success of Iran’s uranium enrichment program, Rafsanjani upstaged the current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who made a similar announcement on Wednesday in the northeastern city of Mashad, bordering Afghanistan.
Rafsanjani beat Ahmadinejad to the punch by almost twenty-four hours in an interview with the Kuwait News Agency. The two men have been archrivals since Ahmadinejad bested Rafsanjani in a stage-managed election last June.
If nothing else, Rafsanjani’s involvement should remind us in the West that for all the factional fighting in Tehran, this regime stands united in its determination to development nuclear weapons and is willing to pay a high cost to achieve nuclear capability.
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Iran had successfully enriched uranium ......as democrats cheered!
saying this guy is a moderate is like saying himmler was not as bad as hitler....
We should have a pool to guess how long it takes for someone to try and pre-emptively take out that facility..
Bump
They've enriched uranium, but its not weapons-grade. THIS is the moment to bomb the shiite out of Natanz.
What is Europe and the UN going to do about it? Nothing, oh well.
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