Tuesday, April 10, 2007

IAEA: Iran Two Years Away From Bomb

Filed under: Iran Watch by Chad at 6:28 am UTC

Yesterday Iran announced they have begun industrial uranium enrichment, something which was in defiance of the United Nations but also something I didn’t realize exactly what it meant.  Sure, it means more enrichment and that the planned 3,000 centrifuges at the Natanz complex were complete or were on the verge of completion thus pushing ahead Iran’s attempt or ability to produce enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear warhead, but what does that mean?

Does that mean we’re looking at a nuclear armed Iran in five years?  Ten years?  Fifteen years?  How about two years?  The correct answer appears to be two years, but once again this is assuming the IAEA knows all of what Iran is doing, which is false according to their own reports.

Iran is believed to be using 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimates that with this number of centrifuges it is about two years away from having enough weapons-grade uranium for one bomb . . .

Analysts say Iran has used such announcements of atomic progress in the past to strengthen its bargaining position with the West, but that such statements have often glossed over technical hitches they say have plagued its nuclear work.

But Iran still maintains its nuclear program is for peaceful means, yet yesterday at the announcement ‘students’ protested outside the IAEA office in Tehran shouting out the rather familiar phrases of, “Death to America!  Death to England!”  What?  Israel gets no love?  If Iran’s nuclear program were for peaceful reasons, why would the announcement be joined by yells of death to anyone?


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