Iran Agrees to Uranium Enrichment Deal
Of course, we are going to act like they did not. Those are the kinds of things you need to do to get a war off the ground.
"Iran to step up its production of nuclear fuel; Pact falls apart; US urges unity on use of sanctions" by Michael Slackman, New York Times | February 8, 2010
CAIRO - Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s order yesterday may represent nuclear gamesmanship; it is uncertain whether the country has the capacity to enrich its fuel to roughly 20 percent, from about 5 percent, as Ahmadinejad ordered.
Yes, and you need 90% to do a bomb and it's hard to produce.
Iran is not a threat at all, in fact AS YOU WILL SEE this is about CANCER TREATMENTS and WHO WOULD WANT to wait for SOMEONE ELSE on that?
Doing so would require retooling the configuration of the nation’s centrifuges at a moment when Iran appears to have run into considerable technical difficulties at its nuclear plants.
Then they CERTAINLY are NOT the THREAT we are being told they are!
It is unclear if those troubles have been caused either by its own technical failings, or sabotage by Western intelligence agencies, or both.
Probably both, but that sabotage is oh so quiet, 'eh, readers?
Like Israel assassinating scientists.
American intelligence officials have told Congress and close allies, in closed briefings, that covert efforts to interfere with Iran’s production capability are extremely active.
Close allies means Israel and Britain.
So OUR TERRORISM is an OKAY THING for something IRAN has a RIGHT to, huh?
Related: Iran is Paranoid
No, I don't think so.
Ahmadinejad is betting that the threat of further enrichment itself may force the United States, Europe, and Russia to provide fuel on his terms; American officials have said the move would only speed the effort to impose sanctions.
I'm glad the Zionist MSM can read Ahmadinejad's mind. It's their right to do 20% for medical purposes.
It may also affect Israel’s calculation about how far it is willing to allow Iran to get to a weapons capability before launching an attack on Iran’s nuclear or missile facilities.
Yes, once again EVERYTHING is ABOUT that little stinking state that can get away with anything!!
Yup, even though IRAN ISN'T EVEN BUILDING a BOMB!!
You know, if USrael is going to do this and go down as the greatest war criminals and world history, just do it so the world can kick your ass and move on. Thank you.
Until now, Iran has never enriched significant quantities of fuel beyond the level needed in ordinary nuclear reactors, part of its argument that its program is for peaceful purposes.
Yeah, but SOMEHOW that gets LOST in all the BOOM-BOOM of the WAR DRUMS!!!!
But
Yeah, always a BUT, IF, STILL, YET, COULD BE, MAY BE, HOWEVER, EVEN SO, NONETHELESS, etc, etc, etc. I would have failed the writing class in college had I used so many of those words in a "report."
any effort to produce 20 percent enriched uranium would put the country in a position to produce highly-enriched uranium - at the 90 percent level used for weapons - in a comparatively short period of time, according to nuclear experts....
What "experts?"
Related: The Pinnacle of Propaganda
Yeah, they can't help themselves.
"Nuclear fuel push raises alarm about Iran’s intentions; US, France say move warrants further sanctions" by Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post | February 9, 2010
Yeah, neither can Washington Post.
TEHRAN - Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s envoy to the Vienna-based IAEA, handed over a letter informing the UN nuclear watchdog agency that his country today would start enriching uranium up to 20 percent, the Press TV, a state-run English-language news network, reported....
Iran says the higher-grade fuel is needed to power a 41-year-old, US-built research reactor in Tehran that produces isotopes for medical purposes. The uranium enriched to 20 percent would be far below the grade needed to make material for a nuclear bomb.
In Paris, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Defense Minister Hervé Morin of France met yesterday to discuss Tehran’s nuclear program and said afterward that both countries would push for further sanctions.
“We must still try and find a peaceful way to resolve this issue,’’ Gates said. “The only path that is left to us at this point, it seems to me, is that pressure track, but it will require all of the international community to work together.’’
I despise our rot gut, war criminal leaders, world.
France and the United States will seek to persuade the UN Security Council to impose new sanctions against Iran, Morin said at a joint news conference. “We’ll have no other choice.’’
Related: Israel Blackmailing the World Over Iran
No, I guess not.
A senior parliamentarian from Russia, which has opposed Western calls for new UN sanctions, suggested yesterday that the time had come for such action. Konstantin Kosachev, head of the international affairs committee of the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, told the Interfax news agency....
Americans, that would be like some CONGRESSMAN weighing in over here -- meaning the statement is ABSOLUTELY MEANINGLESS!
But it is presented here as if Russia is on board, pfft!
The upgraded uranium will be produced at Iran’s Natanz enrichment plant, Press TV reported, adding that Iran “is entitled to enrich uranium for civilian purposes’’ as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Yeah, THAT'S RIGHT!
In fact, because they signed WE ARE SUPPOSED to ASSIST THEM, not sanction them.
Soltanieh said IAEA inspectors would be able to fully monitor the process, the Associated Press reported. He alleged that Iran’s move was forced by world powers, who he said had failed to respond to Tehran’s proposals on implementing a deal to swap some of the country’s low-enriched uranium for fuel for the research reactor.
“We cannot leave hospitals and patients desperately waiting for radio isotopes,’’ Soltanieh said in Vienna.
Related: Life-saving isotopes running out in Iran
Do you UNDERSTAND NOW, American?
Would YOU WANT YOUR LOVED ONES DENIED care for CANCER?
And this next paragraph singed my sniffer:
If Iran enriched all of its current stock of fuel, it would need only a small facility “to produce enough weapon-grade nuclear material in a breakout strategy aimed at getting enough for a weapon in about six months. Such a plant would be extremely hard [for inspectors] to find,’’ said David Albright, a former weapons inspector and president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.
Related: The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was
As long as we got that cleared up(?).
A "rebuttal" posted before the piece begins?
Boom-boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom-boom.
Hear those war drums a beatin'?
"Iran accelerates nuclear enrichment, drawing warnings; Defiant step puts weapons-grade uranium closer" by Nasser Karimi, Associated Press | February 10, 2010
TEHRAN - Iranian nuclear technicians set dozens of centrifuges spinning yesterday to begin enriching uranium stocks to a significantly higher level, prompting President Obama to warn of a “significant regime of sanctions.’’
Iran’s acceleration in its enrichment program was a defiant step that puts weapons-grade uranium in closer reach should Tehran choose to go after the bomb. It was also another in a series of mixed messages that appeared calculated to boost Iran’s leverage in negotiations with world powers on limiting its nuclear program....
Oh, like my morning reading of the Zionist AmeriKan newspaper, huh?
Obama, speaking at a surprise appearance in the White house briefing room, said the sanctions process is moving along quickly, but he gave no specific timeline.
In his most extensive remarks on Iran in some time, Obama said Iran appeared to have spurned his offer of engagement.
But even announcing its latest step, Iran was careful to leave the door open to a negotiated solution, saying it would stop the work if the West found a way to provide it with fuel for the research reactor, which makes radio isotopes for use in cancer treatment....
Obomber is a prick.
Even before the announcement, US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said he believed the UN should slap new sanctions on Iran in “weeks, not months,’’ according to his spokesman.
Yeah, SLAP IRAN AROUND after ISRAEL BITCH-SLAPPED you, right, Bob?
France also said Iran’s action left no choice but to push harder for a fourth set of UN Security Council sanctions to punish Iran’s nuclear defiance.
Yeah, yeah, we all know the French are in the Zionist pocket.
Even Russia, which has friendly ties with Iran and has opposed new sanctions, appeared to edge closer to other Security Council members supporting tougher penalties, saying the enrichment work has raised new suspicions.
There goes the Zionist MSM hoping again.
“Iran says it doesn’t want to have nuclear weapons. But its actions, including its decision to enrich uranium to 20 percent, have raised doubts among other nations, and these doubts are quite well founded,’’ said Nikolai Patrushev, the chief of Russia’s Security Council.
Related: Russian military chief warns US against striking Iran
Senior diplomats from the six major powers - the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany - held a conference call Friday to discuss a US-produced list of possible new sanctions. UN diplomats briefed on the talks, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were private, said no decisions were made.
Diplomats say China holds the key to new sanctions, and yesterday’s statement from its Foreign Ministry calling for more talks indicates that Beijing is not ready to impose tough new measures.
It sounds so weird to say God bless China.
Iranian state television said the process began yesterday in the presence of inspectors from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, which has investigated Iran’s nuclear program since 2003.
In Vienna, where the agency is headquartered, a senior US envoy questioned the rationale for Tehran’s move and offered Washington’s help in getting the medical isotopes needed to treat cancer patients in Iran.
And WHY should IRAN TRUST US of all people?
Iran says more than 850,000 people need the isotopes and radiography materials produced by the Tehran reactor for their illnesses.
“To address the humanitarian needs of Iran’s people, we are prepared to facilitate Iran’s procurement of medical isotopes from third-country sources,’’ said Glyn Davies, the chief US delegate to the IAEA.
Is that what the covert, state-sponsored terrorism is about?
Addressing the humanitarian needs of the Iranian people?
Sort of like the lies being good for us 'murkns, huh?
Davies said the US proposal represented “a faster, cheaper, and more responsible alternative’’ than enriching to 20 percent - a move he described as “a provocation . . . in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.’’
Go tell it to ISRAEL, bub!
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Boom-boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom-boom.
"US envoy criticizes Iran on nuclear enrichment; Says plan hurts cancer patients" by George Jahn, Associated Press | February 11, 2010
VIENNA - A senior US envoy accused Iranian leaders of hypocrisy yesterday for opting to pursue “ever more dangerous nuclear technology’’ instead of accepting an international plan to make sure medical isotopes get to needy cancer patients.
Glyn Davies, the chief US delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency, leveled the sharp criticism a day after Iran began enriching its uranium to a higher level....
“Why is Tehran gambling with the health and lives of 850,000 Iranian cancer patients in pursuit of ever-more-dangerous nuclear technology?’’ asked Davies. “This move is callous and chilling.’’
David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington-based organization, said higher enrichment means Iran is getting a step closer to the ability to make nuclear weapons.
“Iran is slowly expanding its breakout capability,’’ Albright said in an e-mail. He said achieving the 20 percent level “would be going most of the rest of the way to weapon-grade uranium.’’I'm so sick of the same old bulls***ters appearing day after day after day in my "newspaper."
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That increased international concerns about Iran’s nuclear aims and led Washington yesterday to impose new sanctions on several affiliates of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps over their alleged involvement in producing and spreading weapons of mass destruction.
The US Treasury Department announced it would freeze assets in US jurisdictions of Revolutionary Guard General Rostam Qasemi and four subsidiaries of a construction firm he commands.
Tehran says it wants to enrich its uranium only up to 20 percent - substantially below the 90 percent level used in the core of nuclear warheads - as a part of a plan to fuel its research reactor, which provides isotopes to hundreds of thousands of Iranians undergoing cancer treatment.
But the West says....
WHO CARES what the LYING WEST barks on behalf of ISRAEL?
An INVISIBLE INK (article that never appeared in the printed paper), can you believe it?
"Iran’s nuclear efforts falling short, data show; Technical glitches slow enrichment" by Joby Warrick and Glenn Kessler, Washington Post | February 11, 2010
Iran is experiencing surprising setbacks in its efforts to enrich uranium, according to new assessments that suggest equipment failures and other difficulties could undermine the country’s plans for dramatically scaling up its nuclear program.
Former US officials and independent nuclear specialists say continued technical problems could also delay Iran’s march toward achieving nuclear weapons capability, giving the United States and its allies more time to press for a diplomatic solution.
Yes, I see why you had to be sharp and catch it on the web.
In recent months, Israeli officials have been less vocal in their demands that Western nations curtail Iran’s nuclear program....
Since when?
UN reports over the last year have shown a drop in production at Iran’s main uranium enrichment plant, near the city of Natanz. Now a new assessment, based on internal data from UN nuclear inspections, suggests that Iran’s mechanical woes are deeper than previously known. At least through the end of 2009, the Natanz plant appears to have performed so poorly that sabotage cannot be ruled out as an explanation, according to a draft study by David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security. A copy of the report was provided to The Washington Post.
But analysts also warned that Iran remains capable of making enough enriched uranium for a small arsenal of nuclear weapons, if it decides to do so.
Pffft!
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"Isn't it amazing how the corporate media can admit that Iran is making medical isotopes in one paragraph, then go right back to screaming about nuclear weapons the very next paragraph down?" -- Wake the Flock Up
It is making me angry and sick.
Another INVISIBLE STINK, I mean, INK:
"Iran a ‘nuclear state,’ leader says; Issues warning on revolution’s anniversary" by Michael Slackman, New York Times | February 12, 2010
CAIRO - Iran’s president boasted yesterday that his nation had the capacity to make weapons-grade nuclear fuel if it chose to, in a speech intended to rally the nation as it marked the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
The president’s remarks, combined with the government’s apparently successful effort to prevent the opposition from once again hijacking a national holiday, seemed intended to send a message to the government’s domestic and international critics that it remained in control, and defiantly so....
I don't like the WHOLE BIASED TOWN and ATTITUDE of this NYT SLOP!!
In the address in Azadi Square in Tehran, Ahmadinejad relied on familiar nationalist and anti-Western themes, accusing the United States and Europe of trying to hold Iran down and challenging them by saying that Iran had already succeeded in enriching uranium to 20 percent and could do even more.
“We have the capability to enrich uranium more than 20 percent or 80 percent, but we don’t enrich because we don’t need it,’’ Ahmadinejad said.
He's lying. His machines are on the fritz.
But he added a warning to the West. “Please pay attention and understand that the people of Iran are brave enough that if it wants to build a bomb it will clearly announce it and build it and not be afraid of you,’’ he said....
WTF? Maybe he is a secret Jew.
What is the point of saying that?
The Obama administration dismissed the idea that Iran had the capacity to enrich uranium to weapons grade.
Oh, so the WHITE HOUSE KNOWS IRAN is NOT BUILDING a BOMB, 'eh?
The White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said, Iran has made a series of statements that are “based on politics, not on physics,’’ the Associated Press reported.
Are you sure that is no what you are being, Bob?
And about that NIST REPORT on the WTC collapses and the laws of physics....
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1. Last Spring, Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington's chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel refused.
2. The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.
3. The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.
4. Iran's formal notification to the IAEA of the planned construction of the backup fuel-rod facility underscores that Iran is playing by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran has signed.
5. Iran allows IAEA inspections of all its facilities.
6. Contrary to face-saving claims, it appears that the US and Israel were both caught off guard by Iran's announcement. The reasoning is simple. Had the US or Israel announced the existence of he new facility before Iran's notified the IAEA, it would have put Iran on the defensive. As it is now, the US and Israel seem to be playing catch up, casting doubt on the veracity of Israel's claims to "know" that Iran is a nuclear threat.
7. The IAEA and all 16 United States Intelligence Agencies are unanimous in agreement that Iran is not building and does not possess nuclear weapons.
8. In 1986, Mordachai Vanunu blew the whistle and provided photographs showing Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons factory underneath the reactor at Dimona.
9. Israel made the same accusations against Iraq that it is making against Iran, leading up to Israel's bombing of the power station at Osirik. Following the invasion of 2003, international experts examined the ruins of the power station at Osirik and found no evidence of a clandestine weapons factory in the rubble.
10. The United Nations has just released the Goldstone Report, a scathing report which accuses Israel of 37 specific war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza earlier this year. Israel has denounced the report as "Anti-Semitic (even though Judge Goldstone is himself Jewish), and the United States will block the report from being referred to the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague, thereby making the US Government an accessory after-the-fact.
We all need to be Joe Wilson right now. We need to stand up and scream, "LIAR!" at every politician and every talking media moron that is pushing this war in Iran. And we need to keep dong it until they get the message that we will not be deceived any more.
Israel wants to send your kids off to die in Iran, and YOU are the only one that can stop them." -- Wake the Flock Up
And WHY does IRAN need to INSURE ITS OWN SUPPLY?
WASHINGTON - As the worldwide shortage of a radioactive isotope used in millions of medical procedures worsens, officials say a new source for the substance has emerged: a nuclear reactor in Poland....
But ship your stuff out so we can ship it back, Iran.
Yeah, considering that they NEVER GOT the stuff back from the other deals they made with the West, who can blame them for wanting to make their own?
Let's face it, readers, WE ARE GOING to KEEP the stuff for OURSELVES if Iran gives it to us. There is a SHORTAGE, haven't you heard?
Almost two-thirds of the world’s supply comes from two reactors; one, in Ontario, has been shut for repairs for nine months and is not expected to reopen before April, and the other, in the Netherlands, will close for six months starting Friday.
Radiologists say that the shortage has forced them at times to revert to inferior materials and techniques they stopped using 20 years ago.
Covidien, a company in St. Louis that purifies the material and packages it in a form usable by radiologists, is expected to announce today that it has signed a contract with the operators of the Maria reactor, near Warsaw, one of the world’s most powerful research reactors.
The Maria, a 36-year-old reactor, will fill only a small fraction of the gap left by the shutdowns at Chalk River, Ontario, and Petten, the Netherlands.
Then WHY is IRAN being HASSLED?
Still, Dr. Michael M. Graham, a professor of radiology at the University of Iowa and a member of the board of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, said the arrangement “could make the difference between being able to limp along and shutting down.’’
Sounds like the AmeriKan newspaper industry.
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