Tehran Is Ramping Up Nuclear-Fuel Output

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 2/22/2012 | Jay Solomon

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Iran has significantly increased its stockpile of a purer form of enriched uranium that is closer to weapons grade, according to the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, and has begun to produce it at a fortified mountain site seen as potentially immune from a military strike.

The International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday also reported that Iranian officials continue to rebuff the agency's calls to explain growing evidence that shows Tehran has experimented in developing the technologies for atomic weapons. This week, for the second time in a month, Iran denied IAEA inspectors access to sites, scientists and documents that the agency believes are related to nuclear-weapons work.

The report on Iran's nuclear advances rattled international oil markets on Friday and intensified fears in the international community that the country is moving closer to a nuclear-weapons capability, something Tehran denies it wants.

By blocking the IAEA's mission, Tehran also cast doubt on Western hopes for a resumption of negotiations on the nuclear issue in the coming weeks.

"Iran's actions demonstrate why Iran has failed to convince the international community that is nuclear program is peaceful," White House National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said. "If it refuses to shift course, its isolation from the international community will only continue to grow."

Iran in recent months has significantly increased the number of centrifuge machines that are used to produce nuclear fuel at sites near the Iranian cities of Natanz and Qom, according to the IAEA.

The Qom facility, called Fordow, has particularly concerned the U.S., Israel and their European allies because it is based at a military site protected by antiaircraft batteries and a mountain of rock and soil. The Iranian government had previously kept the Fordow facility secret from the IAEA, before it was uncovered by American intelligence in 2009.

[bigheadfred]

I’m sorry. Could you repeat the question???

[bigheadfred]

OK. Any “site” that is immune from a “military” strike is one thing.

ACCESS to that site that has been rendered “impassible” is another.

[bigheadfred]

And ONE MORE THING!

Just kidding.

The time to talk was yesterday.

And they bitch about a few “civilian” casualties.

I’m sorry. Oh yah, Neville, you are.

But not as sorry as the 70 million dead or even as sorry as the ones left behind, Barry.

I laugh.

[livius]

But...but...Bambi assured us just a couple of days ago that Iran had absolutely no plans to build a nuclear weapon. How could this be if our Dear Leader says it isn’t so?

[Venturer]

This is pretty much the same rhetoric the Democrats were spewing before Bush was elected.

Bush got elected and went to Iraq, and then all of the WMD Democrat spewers turned on him like rabid dogs and denied what they had been saying.

In fact they even voted for us to go to Iraq ,and still they denied that we needed to go.

Is Iran actually in the act of building a Nuclear weapon?
I believe they are,but Obama will not attack , and if we get a real President, the Dems will start the same crap they did with Bush.