Re:Iran deliver ulitamatum....let us buy nuke fuel or we'll produce it ourselves
Nov 12, 2009
Israel Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said in an October interview with the Sunday Times, “If no crippling sanctions are in place by Christmas, Israel will strike Iran. If Israel is left alone, Israel will act alone.”
Dec 5, 2009
The US president's tough words and willingness to step out of his axiomatic insistence on dialogue and turn to economic warfare against Iran may be impressive but it is no longer effective. Tehran is too close to its goal of a nuclear weapons capability to be deterred by offers of engagement or economic penalties.
By now, Iran has used the gift of time to process enough enriched uranium to fuel two nuclear bombs and is able to produce another two per year.
Its advanced medium-range missiles will be ready to deliver nuclear warheads by next year. (2010)
Detonators for nuclear bombs are in production at two secret sites.
And finally, a second secret uranium enrichment plant - subject of the stern warning issued collectively in Pittsburgh Friday by Obama, French president Nicolas Sarkozy and British premier Gordon Brown - has come to light, buried under a mountain near Qom. Its discovery doubles - at least - all previous estimates of Iran's nuclear capabilities.
Gates assessment and the cooling note he injected into the US president's oratory came after Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak visited the Pentagon. The visit clearly did not change Gates' view that the Iranian nuclear program was now too advanced to stop, while the use of force would only gain an interval of up to three years, after which Tehran would pick itself up and start again. Therefore, according to Gates, diplomacy remained the only viable option.
The answer to this argument is simple: It is exactly this approach which gave Iran 11 quiet years to develop its weapons capacity. For Israel and Middle East, a three-year setback is a very long time, a security boon worth great risk, because
a) It would be a happy respite from the dark clouds hanging over the country from Iran and also cut back Hamas and Hizballah terrorist capabilities
b) In the volatile Middle East anything can happen in 36 months.
But the US defense secretary believes Israel, like the rest of the world, must accept life under the shadow of a nuclear-armed Iran and make the best of it.
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1414
Dec 14, 2009
There are several parts to a nuclear weapon all of which must work correctly or you get a “dud”. You must construct a critical amount of uranium or plutonium into a shape that is not a critical mass yet becomes one when explosively compressed. If you want to speed up the start of the chain reaction you must throw considerable free neutrons into the critical mass. There are other things you might do also that are well documented on the Web if you know where to look.
But these kinds of things are specific only to nuclear weapons. Power reactors don’t need excess neutrons. In fact, excess neutrons are a great danger to a power reactor. Reactors use control rods to modulate the number of free neutrons available to keep the reaction at the proper level.
For those of you who haven’t figured it out yet, Iran has a nuclear weapons program.
Everybody is dancing around the obvious conclusion because a major war in the Middle East is in nobody’s interest except the Iranians. They will gladly take the confusion and destruction if it will help bring forth the Hidden Imam. I know I appear to be stuck in a one note samba. But my research into Shia Islam has lead me to the conclusion that the mullahs in power are actively seeking that outcome. Otherwise, there is little rationale for a nuclear weapons program.
http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=1928
Dec 30, 2009
Manouchehr Mottaki, Iran's foreign minister, claimed statements from the British Government were inciting demonstrations that swept the country's biggest cities on Sunday. He warned that Iran would strike back against the British and other western governments that were supporting the opposition movement launched in the wake of June's disputed presidential election.
"If Britain does not stop talking nonsense it will get a slap in the face," he said. "The lowly and downgrading remarks by some foreign officials show the black stain on their record in their contradictory interactions."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-threatens-Britain-with-slap-in-the-face.html
Jan 2, 2010
Iran not only refused to meet the deadline imposed by Washington and other members of the international community to accept a U.N.-backed uranium deal, but has ushered in the new year by imposing a month-long deadline on the West in return.
If the West doesn't accept its own terms for swapping low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday on state-run television, Iran will begin producing its own nuclear reactor fuel.
"The international community has just one month left to decide" to accept Iran's conditional offer, Mottaki said. "This is an ultimatum."
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...nswers-unmet-deadline-with-ultimatum-for-west
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1414
