Ahmadinejad says Iran now has 5,000-to-6,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment

AFP via translation | July 26, 2008

[HAL9000]

via translation -

ALERT - Nuclear: Iran has 5,000 to 6,000 centrifuges

TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Iran had 5,000 to 6,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment activities, confirming that the Islamic Republic has expanded its controversial nuclear programme, reported state radio.

[HAL9000]

Sounds like enough to be considered “weapons-scale”.

[HAL9000]

AFP - Iran has up to 6,000 enrichment centrifuges: Ahmadinejad

[Cindy]

http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

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Video and photo included.

stepping back in time to May, 2008...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7420737.stm

Page last updated at 20:47 GMT, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:47 UK

“Iran ‘withholds nuclear details’”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Iran has told the IAEA it plans to have 6,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges operating by the end of the summer.”

[Cindy]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/07/opinion/edzimmer.php

“IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROJECT
Nearer to the Bomb”

By Peter D. Zimmerman Published: July 7, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “But the advanced centrifuges will enable the Iranians to build about twice as many nuclear weapons a year with the current infrastructure than they otherwise could have done. If they add 6,000 machines to today’s 3,000, the bomb-building potential is more than doubled again, but the peaceful utility of the plant is zero.”

[elhombrelibre]

Soon to be nuclear-armed Iran ping.

[himno hero]

I dont think so

He is only confirming what we already know and not the known unknowns or better yet the unknown unknowns.

To me it looks like he is just bragging that we have the job done and are spinning more for back up.

Worse yet, you can’t stop me! UN? Who are they????

[Cindy]

Note: Photos included.

http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/newsmlmmd.48a37caae2b442617a93f7062cd0855e.281.html

“Iran has up to 6,000 enrichment centrifuges: Ahmadinejad”
26/07/2008 11h00

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “TEHRAN (AFP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that Iran has boosted the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges to up to 6,000, in an expansion of its nuclear programme that defies international calls for a freeze.

“Today they (the West) have agreed that the existing 5,000 to 6,000 centrifuges do not increase and that there is no problem if this number of centrifuges work,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by state radio.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “But Ahmadinejad vowed on Wednesday that Iran would make no concessions in the nuclear crisis and that further sanctions would not force it to back down.”

[Cindy]

PHOTOS:

http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=+site:www.globalsecurity.org+Natanz

[Cindy]

PROPAGANDA On The Internet:

irib.ir

english.irib.ir

english.irib.ir/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=17

[Cindy]

JPOST.com - THE JERUSALEM POST - Topic: “The Iranian Threat”
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/IndexParMult&cid=1145961369337

[Cindy]

http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Focus/IaeaIran/index.shtml

“In Focus : IAEA and Iran”

[alexander_busek]

Ahmadinejad says Iran now has 5,000 to 6,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment

Would it have been too much to ask that he also supply us with the bombing co-ordinates of those centrifuges?

[Cindy]

Resource Link:

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/nuke/index.html

[Cindy]

RECAP:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50511

“Iranian Threat Justifies Missile Defense, General Says”

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 15, 2008

[Cindy]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,391529,00.html

“Report: Ahmadinejad Says Iran Has 6,000 Centrifuges”
Saturday, July 26, 2008

TEHRAN, Iran —

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Iran says it plans to move toward large-scale uranium enrichment that ultimately will involve 54,000 centrifuges.”

[tobyhill]

This means that Obama’s trip to the Middle-East was a failure after such high expectations by the MSM.
I guess this Messiah has his limitations.

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

The euroweenies are sure doing a great job handling the Iranians arn’t they? This is what happens when you put socialist bedwetters in charge of a international crisis.

[DocRock]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040522/news_1n22uranium.html

Excerpt near bottom of article concerning 500 tons of Uranium U.S. found in Iraq:

"Of the uranium, 500 tons is naturally occurring ore or yellowcake, a slightly processed concentrate that cannot be directly used in a bomb. Some 1.8 tons is classified as low-enriched uranium, a more potent form but still not sufficient for a weapon.

Thomas B. Cochran, director of the nuclear program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the low-enriched version could be useful to a nation with nuclear ambitions.

"A country like Iran," Cochran said, "could convert that into weapons-grade material with a lot fewer centrifuges than would be required with natural uranium."

[Chode]