Iran to start Industrial Scale Enrichment

[Glorify Him]

This may be what we have been looking for:



NATANZ, Iran (AP) - Iran is prepared to start "industrial scale" enrichment of uranium, the vice president said Monday, expanding a key nuclear process that the United Nations has demanded the country halt.
The announcement came as Iran celebrated the one-year anniversary of its first success in enriching small amounts of uranium at its Natanz enrichment facility in central Iran. "Now we are entering the mass production of centrifuges and starting to launch industrial scale enrichment, another step toward the flourishing of Islamic Iran," Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh said at a ceremony at Natanz.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070409/D8OD3UBO1.html

[Ready2beraptured]

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NATANZ, Iran (AP) - Iran is prepared to start "industrial scale" enrichment of uranium, the vice president said Monday, expanding a key nuclear process that the United Nations has demanded the country halt.

Uh oh, here comes more scary sanctions.

[Irvine]

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I wonder how long the world will wait til they do something about this, something other than useless sanctions! maybe when Iran has a truckload of nukes with warheads pointed towards Tel Aviv, London, Paris or wherever, basically holding the world hostage, maybe then they ll be concerned enough to act on it.

[Guest]

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I don't listen to talk radio much anymore, but I just happened to catch some of it today.
There was a man on, that was a nuclear scientist.
He was asked "at what point is it too late for us (or anyone) to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, and still be safe for those around it?"
Ie, at what point in the nuclear bomb making, would be too far, where bombing the factories would release harmful radiation, killing thousands of innocent people.
From what this guy said, Iran is close very close to that point.
Once they fuel these rods up, and start the process of making energy, you have radiation.
His suggestion was to take out the electrical/energy supplies for those plants, thus preventing them from starting their machines at all, and thus preventing them from making radioactive materials.
I'm not sure what that would do, they would just rebuild.
But I see the point of the talk show host.
At what point is it too late to do this, and still not risk the lives of those around the plants who might be exposed to radiation?

[Tennken]

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I don't know what everyone is upset about, the UN is handling the
matter and we know that no one would dare ignore the UN security
council.................LOL

It appears the US has decided to let the UN handle this one which
means that Iran is free to do as they please and they know it.
I could be wrong but with the political climate in the US over Iraq,
I don't see us responding.

[sojourner52]

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more on this topic is in the thread on national nuclear day - for example:

Ahmadinejad also warned that Iran would "reconsider its behaviour" if it was provoked by world powers. He did not go into further detail.

"Our nation has until this day moved on a peaceful path, observing laws created by the world powers, and it is interested in continuing along this path.

"But they should take care not to do something that makes Iran reconsider its behaviour, as the Iranian nation is capable of doing so," he said.

"We recommend to them that they had better respect nations' rights."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

[sojourner52]

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former US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, pointed to britain's handling of the hostage crisis as it relates to Iran and nuclear weapons:

He said Iran was testing allied resolve and found that Britain responded with "not much of a reaction at all."

"This passive, hesitant, almost acquiescent approach barely concealed the Foreign Office's real objective: keeping the faint hope alive that three years of failed negotiations on Iran's nuclear weapons programme would not suffer another, this time possibly fatal, setback."

The lesson for Iran was that "it probed and found weakness." Ahmadinejad could now "undertake equal or greater provocations, confident he need not fear a strong response," Bolton wrote.

"Emboldened as Iran now is, and ironically for engagement advocates, it is even less likely there will be a negotiated solution to the nuclear weapons issue, not that there was ever much chance of one.

"Iran, sensing weakness, has every incentive to ratchet up its nuclear weapons programme, increase its support to Hamas, Hezbollah and others and perpetrate even more serious terrorism in Iraq.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

[Biblenuggetlady]

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

US 'very concerned' over Iran nuclear steps

The White House said Monday it was "very concerned" about Iran's claim that it was producing enriched uranium on an industrial scale and warned against "unacceptable" limits on Tehran's cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.
"We are very concerned about Iran's announcement that they entered an 'industrial stage' of nuclear fuel production," national security spokesman Gordon Johndroe told reporters.

[Biblenuggetlady]

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday vowed that world powers would not be able to stop Iran's nuclear drive and that the Islamic republic would defend its atomic programme "to the end."

Ahmadinejad also warned that Iran would "reconsider its behaviour" if it was provoked by world powers. He did not go into further detail.

"Our nation has until this day moved on a peaceful path, observing laws created by the world powers, and it is interested in continuing along this path.

"But they should take care not to do something that makes Iran reconsider its behaviour, as the Iranian nation is capable of doing so," he said.

"We recommend to them that they had better respect nations' rights."

[Guest]

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This is not the time to be "very concerned."
That time is when they have a missle in flight, headed towards the US, or they have lobbed one towards our troops.
While we still have time, action is needed.

[Biblenuggetlady]

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Could be the reason for Iran going to a high level of alert today? That and reports that Russia is still claiming an April attack on Iran.

http://debka.com/article.php?aid=1265

No attempt was made to conceal the visit a cluster of top US brass paid April 4 to American marine units aboard the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Baatan (LHD 5) and other vessels of the strike group deployed in the Persian Gulf. In fact they were happy to answer questions about policies, equipment and future plans.

The group visiting the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) aboard the Baatan was led by Gen. James Conway. With him were Lt. Gen. Keith Stadler, Commanding General of II Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. John Estrada and Rear Adm. Richard Jeffries, medical officer of the Marine Corps.

The group earlier climbed aboard the USS Oak Hill and USS Shreveport, which are part of the Bataan Strike Group.

Tehran took this public flurry of activity as another sign of an impending US assault. Its response came four days later. On April 8, the foreign ministry spokesman in Tehran Mohammad Ali Hossein said the Iranian army had completed all its preparations for defending the homeland and Iran was prepared to repel a military offensive.

The tenor of the language emitting from Iran is one of defiance across the board.

The foreign ministry in Tehran announced Monday, April 9: “Talks with the US are not on Iran’s agenda,” in reference to planned meetings on the sidelines of the second Iraq security conference taking place in Cairo next month.

This was the final death blow to the US-Saudi initiative to engage Iran, which was fathered earlier this year by the Bush administration and Saudi King Abdullah. Washington had pinned high hopes on the follow-up Cairo meeting providing the forum for direct talks between US and Iranian foreign ministers.

Since Tehran has knocked this prospect on the head, not much is expected to come out of the Cairo gathering of UN Security Council and G-8 members as well as Iraq’s neighbors – even if it takes place. This too is in question, given the menacing tone of Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki. On Monday, he warned that relations with Iraq could deteriorate if the five Iranians detained in Iraq by US troops last February are not freed. Tehran is investigating their fate, he said, and urged Iraq to do the same.

Radical president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s proclamation of National Nuclear Energy Day celebrations to mark the first anniversary of Iran’s initial breakthrough on uranium enrichment is taken as a red flag to the West.

[Biblenuggetlady]

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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55088

"Preparations to strike Iran's strategic facilities continue," Col. Gen. Leonid Ivashov, president of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems, a Russian think tank, told Moscow-based news service Interfax. "Three major groups of U.S. forces are still in the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Altogether, they have up to 450 cruise missiles on alert."

"Military operations against Tehran will begin with the launch of at least two unexpected strikes using Tomahawk cruise missiles and air power in order to disable Iran's air-defense capabilities."

"According to our data, up to 150 aircraft are to be involved in each strike on Iran. Land-based air-defense systems will be disabled in the first place, then mobile short-range systems, which Tehran has (including some 30 new systems)," he said.

Ivashov also did not rule out the possibility of nuclear weapons being used against Iran.

"Combat nuclear weapons may be used for bombing. This will result in radioactive contamination of the Iranian territory, which could possibly spread to neighboring countries," he said.

A press conference Ivashov held in Moscow March 30 led to speculation the U.S. would strike Iran on April 4 in a military attack code-named "Operation Bite."

In his most recent warning, Ivashov stressed the release of the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran robbed the U.S. of the pretext planned for a military strike last week. Still, Ivashov warned the U.S. had not given up plans to launch a missile and air strike on Iran before the end of April.

Ivashov gained international notice at the Axis for Peace conference in 2005 for his claim that "international terrorism does not exist and that the 9-11 attack was a set-up orchestrated by the U.S. government.