Posted on 01/05/2022 6:05:26 PM PST by bitt
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran plans to buy 950 tonnes of uranium ore from Kazakhstan over three years and expects to get Russian help in producing nuclear fuel, its top nuclear official said in remarks published on Saturday.
The acquisition would not violate Iran’s landmark 2015 deal with world powers over its disputed nuclear program as the deal did not set limits on the Islamic Republic’s supplies of uranium ore.
The report by the Iranian Students’ News Agency ISNA comes a day after the U.N. atomic watchdog said Iran’s official stock of enriched uranium had fallen by half after large amounts stuck in pipes was recategorised as unrecoverable under a process agreed with the major powers.
“About 650 tonnes is to be delivered in two shipments over two years and 300 tonnes during the third year and this shipment is to be returned to Kazakhstan (after enrichment),” Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, told ISNA in an interview.
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Meanwhile we’re focused on gender pronouns, so it’s all good.
Connect the dots.
Proxies will do what Proxy’s do.
Russia will be willing to play along, and then the first
Iranian sourced nuke will go off in Russia.
Idiots.
You’ve just got to wonder, Russia being the victim of Islamic
violence before.
Well, maybe the second or third one.
Israel & the US are too much of an obsession.
The Iranian Revolution in the first place was KGB backed and controlled. Since that time even to recent years, the Russians have been training their scientists in nuclear technology, missile tech, and giving them rocket engines, guidance technologies, etc. Under no circumstances would the Iranians attack their Russian benefactors.
The “Great Satan” is the USA to them, even as Russia historically gang raped male Chechens in the fields and deliberately bombed civilians.
Well, we’ll see.
If you look at the Moscow Theater and Belson School attacks,
I think you’ll begin to see that Russia is not really a friend of Islam.
That was Chechian related.
In Iran we have an Islamic Caliphate. (Not sure it technically
qualifies, but Islam is the leadership’s driving force.)
I don’t think your thoughts are hair-brained at all, but I’m
not sure your logic as reasoned as it may be, will wind up
ruling the day.
That’s of course your regular lies.
The original Russian-Iranian nuke deal stipulates that reactor fuel is coming from Russia and the waste returns.
The reactor is designed specifically to make it impossible to process weapon-grade material off it.
As for the Iranian weapons program there is no evidence of the Russian involvement whatsoever. There is the evidence of the Ukrainian orange clown Yuschenko selling them X-31 ALCMs stolen from the Priluki AFB. Yuschenko personally signed the papers, mislabeling the stuff like some oil drilling components when he was a minister in Kuchma’s administration.
More recently, Yuzhmash of Dnepropetrovsk assisted North Korea in finally making an ICBM capable to reach the continental US. Biden’s pal Poroshenko obviously made billions off it, and probably paid 10% to to big guy.
This was from 2017
"While the type of reactor Russia is building for Iran at Bushehr is not ideal for producing fissile material for a weapons program, reactor grade plutonium can nonetheless be used to create a bomb (both France and the USSR used nuclear power plants to produce plutonium for their respective nuclear weapons programs). Pressurized water reactors are prodigious producers of plutonium, and though Russia has agreed to take back Iran's spent fuel, at any given time there is likely to be very large quantities of it in cooling pools in Iran, awaiting transport. A decision by Iran to violate its Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty obligations by using the spent fuel for bomb building could thus endow it with potentially large quantities of plutonium."
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/halting-russian-aid-irans-nuclear-and-ballistic-missile-programs
As for the Iranian weapons program there is no evidence of the Russian involvement
"Iran can’t be viewed in isolation, apart from Russia. Indeed, Iran is considered to be part of a “strategic alliance” with Russia. In fact, the Iranian Ayatollah, Ali Khamenei, is KGB-trained, having been “educated” at the KGB’s Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. This means he is under Russian influence, if not an agent. Smith Hempstone, a journalist who became United States ambassador to Kenya, wrote about this in a June 11, 1989 column. He had then predicted that Iran under Khamenei would “look to the Soviet Union” for an opening to the outside world. He wrote that Khamenei was not only a graduate of Patrice Lumumba University, but maintained “close ties to the Palestine Liberation Organization and has a record of supporting Iranian cooperation with the Soviet bloc and radical Third World states against the West.” Netanyahu recognizes the fact that Russia is not only behind Iran, but is also reinforcing Syria and various terrorist groups in the region, with the ultimate objective of targeting Israel for destruction."
Nyquist, J.R.; Kincaid, Cliff. Red Jihad: Moscow's Final Solution for America and Israel . Location 447-455. Kindle Edition.
"Just last month, Tehran again test fired its Shahab-3 missile. That missile would be sitting in a box somewhere if it was not for the assistance of Russia to Iran. To my mind, we are facing a major crisis in the coming years and responsibility can largely be laid at the feet of this administration. In 1993 the Clinton administration turned the Nation's Russian policy over to Vice President Al Gore, who set up a commission with Victor Chernomyrdin, then the Russian Vice Premier. This so-called GCC was supposedly the place where U.S. concerns over Russian proliferation were to be resolved.
"Let us take, for example, the matter of Russia's massive arming of Iran with advanced conventional weaponry, which began in earnest in 1992. In June 1995, Vice President Al Gore negotiated a deal with the Russians supposedly to bring this trade to a halt. In exchange for Russia's pledge not to conclude any new contracts, the United States let Russia into the Wassenaar Arrangement, changed U.S. regulations to allow U.S. defense contractors and satellite companies to do business with Russian firms, and pledged to avoid any sanctions that would upset this relationship. In other words, because of this deal that was struck by Vice President Gore Russia is eligible for all sorts of defense cooperation. Indeed, according to recent State Department estimates, Russia has made $7.7 billion over the past few years just from launching U.S. satellites.
"It really should not have come as any surprise to anyone that, despite the 1995 agreement, Russia continued to sell advanced conventional weapons to Iran. Indeed, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in their most recent proliferation report stated: ``Russia, along with its sister republics in the FSU, also remains an important source of conventional weapons and spare parts for Iran.''
"Then of course there are the ineffectual efforts by this administration to terminate Russia's nuclear cooperation with Iran. Despite all sorts of pledges by Russia not to go beyond limited construction at the Bushehr facility, recent press accounts indicate that Russia is now engaging in the sale of sophisticated laser technology that will speed Iran's ability to enrich nuclear materials from weapons. Russia is doing this despite its promise made under the Nonproliferation Treaty not to assist foreign nations in acquiring nuclear weapons. Russia is doing it despite all manner of pledges to Vice President Gore and despite the fact that it is receiving hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid from programs run by the Department of Energy and the Department of State."
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106shrg69750/html/CHRG-106shrg69750.htm
Russia likely arming North Korea, which in turn shares technology with Iran. North Korea's missiles are Russian designed:
"What is more worrying is that advanced missile technology has leaked from Russia to North Korea. Regardless of whether North Korea obtained the missiles directly from Russia, it is obvious that Moscow has played a key role in Pyongyang's weapons development programs.
"When North Korea fired a series of ballistic missiles in 2016 and 2017, Japanese and U.S. security officials noticed that Russia could have had something to do with the projectiles' development.
"The accuracy of North Korea's missiles improved all at once," a Japanese security official said. "That wouldn't have been possible without Russia's help."
"In May, North Korea tested a "lofted launch," which allows a missile to reach its target more quickly, and a "saturation attack" -- the simultaneous bombardment of a single target with multiple missiles.
"Pyongyang also indicated it has the ability to conduct a high-altitude nuclear explosion -- a nuclear detonation in space aimed at destroying an enemy's satellites with powerful electromagnetic waves.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Comment/North-Korea-threat-shows-Russia-s-role-behind-missile-program
What is this collection of spam supposed to prove?
Why is the latest Nork ICBM is a copycut of the Yuzhmash design complete with the Yuzhmash RD-250 engine?
It was last used in Russian applications in 1978.
Russia's history with the war in Chechnya is a history of deception, propaganda, and false flag terror attacks. More than one researcher/journalist into the FSB's role in false flag terror attacks on their own people, and the FSB's role in fomenting the war in Chechnya, have been brutally murdered. Alexander Livinenko, a former FSB agent, for example, was poisoned with Polonium 210. He also claimed that Al-Qaeda's number 2 man was trained at an FSB camp (then again, there are very few terrorists or Islamic leaders who WEREN'T trained in Russia at some point). Anna Politkovskaya was shot in the head on Putin's birthday.
You Putinists always lose the ability to read or understand the English language once sources and links get involved in any conversation.
Linking lies to support your lies doesn’t make them true.
I’m not an expert on those incidents.
While you may be on to something, I’m not sure of it.
There’s so much crap tossed around by all sides, it’s like
trying to find an individual snow-flake in a blizzard.
Putin is very suspect. I believe there is corruption going
on, and then again he may be ordering things done to keep
himself in office. I have no misconceptions as to his
abilities and inclinations.
He and his government have too much power, and that is
generally a bad thing.
We have our own clowns here too.
Recommend JR Nyquist, Cliff Kincaid amd Trevor Loudon for writers who frequently discuss Russia, China, etc. They have books too. Jeff is somewhat elitist and has a low view of Trump, but in fairness he has low views of all the Republicans despite this folly on Trump. They’re a good start on a subject that is unfortunately generally unknown to conservatives who have been inclined to view us as the winners of the cold war with no further threat out of Russia. Russia is a KGB-FSB state despite all the fake moralizing and religious posturing Putin puts out.
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