Posted on 03/27/2015 12:17:17 PM PDT by drewh
— The United States is considering letting Tehran run hundreds of centrifuges at a once-secret, fortified underground bunker in exchange for limits on centrifuge work and research and development at other sites, officials have told The Associated Press.
The trade-off would allow Iran to run several hundred of the devices at its Fordo facility, although the Iranians would not be allowed to do work that could lead to an atomic bomb and the site would be subject to international inspections, according to Western officials familiar with details of negotiations now underway. In return, Iran would be required to scale back the number of centrifuges it runs at its Natanz facility and accept other restrictions on nuclear-related work.
Instead of uranium, which can be enriched to be the fissile core of a nuclear weapon, any centrifuges permitted at Fordo would be fed elements such as zinc, xenon or germanium for separating out isotopes used in medicine, industry or science, the officials said. The number of centrifuges would not be enough to produce the amount of uranium needed to produce a weapon within a year – the minimum time-frame that Washington and its negotiating partners demand.
[…] Experts say the compromise for Fordo could still be problematic. They note it would allow Iran to keep intact technology that could be quickly repurposed for uranium enrichment at a sensitive facility that the U.S. and its allies originally wanted stripped of all such machines – centrifuges that can spin uranium gas into uses ranging from reactor fuel to weapons-grade material.
And the issue of inspector access and verification is key. Iran has resisted “snap inspections” in the past. Even as the nuclear talks have made progress, Iran has yet to satisfy questions about its past possible nuclear-related military activity. The fact that questions about such activity, known as Possible Military Dimensions, or PMDs, remain unresolved is a serious concern for the U.N. atomic watchdog.
In addition, the site at Fordo is a particular concern because it is hardened and dug deeply into a mountainside making it resistant – possibly impervious – to air attack. Such an attack is an option that neither Israel nor the U.S. has ruled out in case the talks fail. (read more)
The Kenyan nanchild and his sidekick, Heinz Hanoi Boi, are bound and determined to make sure that their Islamoterrorist pals have their nukes before Americans turn those two ***holes out to pasture.
Why did we even bother to ‘negotiate’ in the first place.... Just let Bibi’s boyz deal with the turbanis, end of story.
What could possibly go wrong. It’s like that guy in the cartoon...where is the “kaboom.”
Freegards
LEX
When Barak and John entered the Souk
the merchants passed the word...
Here come the rubes.
“[Just let Bibi’s boyz deal with the turbanis, end of story”
Because there is NO DOUBT now that Obama would order U.S. Jets to shoot down Israeli aircraft.
Well if they fo give Iran nukes I’m sure they’ll need Kerry’s home address so if someone has it forward it to ISIS will ya (just kidding; actually they probably already have from a Facebook source that came from Kerry himself indirectly)
I think at this point the Saudis would give them flyover rights, and I winder if the US crews receiving the order would consider it illegal?
Traitorous, America-hating cowards. This is for what constitutional impeachment was intended.
And back in 2008 my progressive pals assured me their hero Barack would be a friend to Israel. Well, they are not my friends any more, and obama is a curse on the Holy Land.
There is more truth to that than most people would believe. The freaks are running the asylum and he’s the lead freak.
I'm just superly super positive that whoever that international monitoring nuclear agency is (IAEA or something) will be TOTALLY able to keep track of everything that goes into those centrifuges to make medical isotopes...just like they knew all along those centrifuges were there in that underground bunker...
/ sarc
WORST CIC ever, hope we live through it, sheesh.
Let the nuclear arms race in the ME begin...
Saudi Arabia says it won’t rule out building nuclear weapons
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The Kenyan nanchild and his sidekick, Heinz Hanoi Boi, are bound and determined to make sure that their Islamoterrorist pals have their nukes before Americans turn those two ***holes out to pasture.
Did You Know that John Kerry’s Daughter
is Married to an Iranian?
The Kenyan nanchild and his sidekick, Heinz Hanoi Boi, are bound and determined to make sure that their Islamoterrorist pals have their nukes before Americans turn those two ***holes out to pasture.
Did You Know that John Kerry’s Daughter
is Married to an Iranian?
Is it possible they are trying to get Kerry a Nobel Peace Prize so he has some street cred if he decides to run against Hillary in the primaries?
He is more electable than Hillary and just as big a lefty as her.
Easily achievable now with majorities in each house!
If only we had some leadership with balls!!
I am confused....
This is like telling NAZI germany it can't build V-2 Rockets in Dresden in grond level factories but they CAN build them in the Caves they had to resort to building them in near the end of the war....
This is so monumentally STUIPID, that good money is on Obama and Kerry doing this INTENTIONALLY!
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