Inside Iran's nuclear nerve centre: halfway house to an atomic bomb

The Guardian ^ | July 30, 2007 | Julian Borger

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Spinning the UF6 gas until it is up to 5% rich in U-235 produces nuclear fuel. Keep spinning until it is 90% enriched and you have the makings of a bomb.

That - combined with the fact that Iran omitted to tell the IAEA about Natanz until its existence was revealed by an opposition group in 2002 - lie at the roots of the global scepticism over Iran's programme.

But there is another huge question mark hanging over Isfahan and Natanz: why is the government in such a rush to enrich fuel, when it has no nuclear power plants in which to use it?

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al-Guardian gets it right for once!! Their reporter notices that Iran apparently has NO CIVILIAN REACTOR(s) under construction (or even planned??) for the uranium they are in such a rush to enrich. The one reactor the Russians are building is only 'allowed' to receive its fuel from Russia...... so why is Iran in such a hurry to enrich uranium for its non-existent 'civilian' nuclear power program???? BIG DUH....

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No serious person doubts what Iran is really up to.... the question is, what will we do about it?? The EU-IAEA-UN Axis of Weasels has had YEARS to show what they could (not) accomplish by diplomacy, negotiations, whining and puling, ass-kissing, pleading, etc.

WHAT HAPPENS NOW?

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Iran intends to sell weapons and reactor grade uranium and plutonium for about half price to establish itself as a world power.

Follows their pattern of using "subcontractors" to project power.

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