Posted on 04/16/2021 7:23:03 PM PDT by massmike
Iran said on Tuesday it will start enriching uranium to 60% purity, a move bringing the fissile material closer to levels suitable for a bomb, after accusing Israel of sabotaging a key nuclear installation.
The disclosure came soon before the resumption of talks in Vienna aimed at reviving Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, an accord Israel fiercely opposed, after former U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned it three years ago.
A fissile purity of 90% is suitable for a nuclear bomb.
Last week, Iran and the global powers held what they described as "constructive" talks to salvage the 2015 accord, which has unravelled as Iran has breached its limits on uranium enrichment since Trump re-imposed harsh sanctions on Tehran.
The deal had capped the level of purity to which Iran can enrich uranium hexafluoride, the feedstock for centrifuges, at 3.67%, far below the 90% needed for bomb-grade material.
Iran in recent months has raised enrichment to 20% purity, a level where uranium is considered to be highly enriched and is a significant step towards weapons-grade. Three-five percent is broadly the level required to run civilian nuclear power plants.
Western intelligence services believe Iran had a clandestine nuclear weapons programme that was mothballed in 2003, though arch-adversary Israel believes it continues in some form and sees Tehran's nuclear activity as an existential threat.
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Thanks, Xiden. Thanks, Xiden’s delusional voters (both real and imaginary).
Israel will soon take care of their nuclear program for good.
The scum American left and Globalists want Iran to have the bomb.”Death to America” will hold more weight if they get it. It takes “one second after” to flush America into the 1800’s.
Israel won’t let them get that far...I only wish President Trump had dropped a few more MOABs in and around IRAN and then said “oops it must have been a tragic accident”...The fools in the Biden Administration don’t GIVE a Damn about America or US citizens. We are at the back of the line and being pushed to the ground while Illegals, Terrorists and BLM and Antifa THugs get the front line goodies!
Most nuclear scientists say once you are at 3%, you are about 1/2 way there to getting to 90%.
We are being run by nutcases in the House and a bunch of multi-national corporations who want to sell their souls to China so the CEO’s can get their next mega bonus.
Dear God how I miss Donald Trump!
ALL real world nuclear engineers and physicists know that getting to 92% from 3.5 % is simply more turns through the centrifuges.
The mechanical engineering for many dozen Hiroshima style bombs is merely machining.
What happened to Traitor Trash Kerry’s and Kenya’s Favorite Son’s treaty? Wasn’t Iran obligated to wait ten years to restart their nuke program?
Good book. Forstchen is a good writer.
Thanks RACPE.
“Iran said on Tuesday it will start enriching uranium to 60% purity, a move bringing the fissile material closer to levels suitable for a bomb, after accusing Israel of sabotaging a key nuclear installation.”
Can’t help but read into this one. Did anyone consider that the reason the installation was sabotaged was because the Iranians are going to create their bomb and Israel is already in the crosshairs? Has anyone considered that Iran has openly used military force at sea in the Gulf region? Has anyone considered that Iran has not followed any treaty with other than ther Muslim world for years and has already stepped past the agreements of nuclear enrichment? Is anyone that stupid? Yep...our government.
wy69
"The moment the first nuclear weapon is exploded over Israeli airspace or Israeli targets, the second nuclear weapon will explode over Mecca, the third will explode over Medina, and the fourth over Saudi Arabia's capitol and the fifth over Iran's capitol."
April 2021
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