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To: Bogie
I saw that article earlier and it said the report was in the New York Times.

Here is the Speigel report via Babelfish translation -

Iran on the way to the atom bomb

The UN weapon supervisors are alarmed: With a control attendance in Iran they discovered special centrifuges for the enrichment of Uranium. They are afraid that Iran of the atom bomb is closer as so far accepted - much more near anyhow than the Iraq. US president George W. Bush comes again into explanation emergency.

Hamburg - the coworkers of the international atomic energy authority (IAEO) entered the underground plant with the thick concrete walls and were not astonished not badly: They saw equal a whole net of highly developed and one on the other co-ordinated machines, which serve the enrichment of Uranium. While their Iran attendance under the guidance of IAEO boss visited Mohamed aluminium-Baradei the inspectors the plant in Natanz, which wanted to have taken up it expressly to their attendance program, after an Iranian group of oppositions them had referred there to activities.

Western diplomats showed up anxiously over the large progress, which Iran makes with its nuclear weapon program, whose it is suspected. There after information the "New York Times" are an important number of centrifuges. American experts mean, who contribute production plant in Natanz to a nuclear weapon program, which operates the Iranian government owing to support of Pakistan, and which is developed already many further as in the Iraq.

American government representatives assume that the enriched Uranium is intended for the assembly of bombs or rockets. The Iranian side however insists on using the material for the civilian use of the nuclear energy. A proof for the fact finally is that one led the weapon inspectors voluntarily after Natanz. In Natanz is planned, only weakly enriched Uranium to produce for use in atomic power plants, which are however not yet built.

The realizations from Iran again get US president to George W. Bush in trouble: Why focuses its government so much on Iraq, while the atomic danger and the danger of the spreading of nuclear material, which proceeds from Iran, from North Korea or from Pakistan, are obviously far larger?

The Iranian president Mohammed Chatami insured the IAEO director, Teheran was ready with the inspection of his atomic plants for a serious co-operation. In a conversation with aluminium-Baradei Chatami protested the peaceful purpose of the Iranian nuclear projects again. It persisted however in the inalienable right of its country to use nuclear technology.

The government in Teheran is obviously ready, a supplementary protocol for the nuclear weapon check contract signs, which permits undeclared UN controls of the atomic plants. That communicated aluminium-Baradei in Teheran.

The Americans remain nevertheless sceptically. Even if the plant in Natanz with monitors and regular controls should be examined, they fear that the knowledge, which is won there to other one, new laboratories will transfer could. Or that parts of the produced material could secretly be brought from Natanz into other production plants.

The US secret service assumes, which will diminish or abroad will buy Iran Uranium in the own country. The raw material was transformed in a plant into Isfahan into Uranium hexafluoride, improved a gas of this again by means of the centrifuges in Natanz or another, place secretly held.

Aluminium-Baradei left Iran after two days, will be IAEO coworkers however altogether seven days in the country and inspections of the plants in Arak, Isfahan and in the port Buschir will prepare. In Buschir the Russians build an atomic plant, which they will supply allegedly once also easily enriched Uranium.

3 posted on 02/23/2003 4:09:35 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
Alas, the machines never do well. The tend to go by the exact meaning of each word and miss the paragraph's meaning.

But, still, better than nothing.

4 posted on 02/23/2003 4:29:43 PM PST by Bogie
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