Posted on 09/24/2008 1:27:16 AM PDT by maquiladora
The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security recently asserted that Iran has resolved many of the technical flaws in its 4,000 centrifuges, used in Iran's uranium enrichment program.
The institute, headed by former U.N. nuclear inspector David Albright, said Iran was enriching uranium at a rate that would enable nuclear weapons capacity by March 2009.
"The centrifuges now appear to be running at approximately 85 percent of their stated target capacity, a significant increase over previous rates," the report concluded. The report, released Sept. 15, was based on information by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
In early 2008, the agency indicated that Iran was operating its centrifuge fleet at 50 percent capacity.
Titled "Centrifuge Operation Significantly Improving," the U.S. institute said Iran has now intensified uranium enrichment. The institute cited an IAEA finding that from May 7 to Aug. 30, Iran fed 3,630 kilograms of uranium hexafluoride into the cascades at the Natanz plant, "a significant increase over previous rates ... Whatever the actual amount of LEU [low-enriched uranium], Iran is progressing toward this [nuclear weapons] capability and can be expected to reach it in six months to two years," the report said.
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What if China gives Iran’s nuke program a kick in the butt? How soon then?
What if Iran already has nukes from N.K. or Russia or Pakistan?
What if they’ve been begging us to hit them so that they can say they were used in self defense and that they weren’t the aggressor? Much of the world would agree with them.
We’ve had nukes since the 1940s.. someone notify the Iranians.
And the West continues to fiddle and diddle. I hope Israel has the stones to do something about this, because we sure as hell don’t.
That is the libaral press story and they are sticking to it.
I am SURE they already do
Thats why the big yap
Dear David,
What if they are working at 150%?????
What about the undisclosed sites and machines????
This is all a cat and mouse game. At what point do you think they will voluntarily tell the truth?
Maybe we should ask obama
Think of the power Al Qaeda will have when Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, and soon more terror sponsoring countries will have nukes...who will we blame when they hit us? Will we be able to prove which country provided the nuke(s)?
What will the world actually do to any nation that hits us with nukes? Do you think France, Germany, or even Britain will come to our aid militarily? Just as President Bush has been trying to tell us...we are fighting for our very existence...
Iran Could Have Nuke Weapons Capacity By March 2009)
Only if we allow it because we are tired of being America and living.......
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