Iran - IAEA finds traces of enriched uranium in location where Tehran denies activity

AFP via Babelfish translation | May 12, 2006

[romanesq]

It's always been a concern that any action against Iran may in fact already be too late if they've obtained weaponized atomic fuel one way or another.

We're closer to now confirming that possibility. Wonder what the real intelligence says on this in the government.

[FreedomNeocon]

Actually, even if you take their 'stated' public goal and number of centrifuges they say they are going to get up to.. they could make 6-8 bombs a year.

Who knows if their 'secret' parallel program is on the same scale or magnitudes greater?

But like you said, if they just procure all the enriched they need they are virtually there. Remember the stories and reports of the missiles they were showing the other week that appeared to have been altered to deliver a nuke (about the nose and how it opens, etc).

Thats the problem with those 'estimates' on when Iran will get a bomb. 95% of the 'time' is how long it will take them to produce the enriched uranium. That depends mostly on how many centrifuges they can keep running (assuming they can't just buy it).

They could have a bomb already and just waiting for 3 before they test one, they could get one in days if the buy the stuff, or a few a year if they have a secret program further along than the public 'decoy' being used to manipulate the UN.

[LSUfan]

I want to believe that Iran does not have a nuke yet. But I am not confident. If they have a nuke and have not announced it, they have made a serious miscalculation. The lesson from North Korea is clear: once you have a nuke, you're untouchable. Once the world believes Iran has atomic bombs, no one--not even israel will attack them.

They will then have a nuclear umbrella under which to spread the Islamic revolution and sponsor Jihadist terrorism against the West.