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Iran Now Has Enough Uranium For Bomb: UN Admits Miscalculation
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Financial Times:
Iran has built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations officials acknowledged on Thursday.
In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear programme, UN officials said Iran had produced more nuclear material than previously thought.
They said Iran had accumulated more than one tonne of low enriched uranium hexafluoride at a facility in Natanz.
If such a quantity were further enriched it could ...
UN: Iran has enough uranium for one bomb
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... The only thing more predictable than a story every few weeks about Iran’s nuclear progress are the caveats that it’s not time to worry just yet . I guarantee that the very last news article written before the announcement that they’ve got the bomb will end with reassurances that it could be months or even years before the west has to act. So relax! Nothing to fret about. In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear programme, UN officials said Iran had produced more nuclear material than ...
Iran Now Has Enough Enriched Uranium For Nuke Bomb
Gateway Pundit —
The UN reported today that the regime in Iran now has enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb. The Financial Times reported: Iran has now built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations officials acknowledged on Thursday. In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear programme, UN officials said Iran had produced more nuclear material than previously thought. They said Iran had now accumulated more ...
Iran's Nuclear Capacity
The Corner on National Review Online —
Thursday, February 19, 2009 [image] Iran's Nuclear Capacity [Michael Rubin] The Financial Times , citing U.N. officials, reports that Iran has enough weapons-grade uranium to build a bomb, although acquiring the HEU and building a warhead are two separate things. Bush swore that Iran wouldn't get this far on his watch. That he was right was more a matter of timing than policy. Obama clearly won't be so lucky. Analysis gets confused with advocacy, especially when a national security issue becomes a political football. That's why so many reports come out urging diplomacy, but so ...
It's the Bomb That Will Bring Us Together
Hit & Run —
... referred to Iran's "development of a nuclear weapon," though he quickly backtracked, referring to the country's "pursuit" of a weapons program. In other words, as the Times points out, "senior U.S. officials now discount a National Intelligence Estimate issued in November 2007 that was instrumental in derailing U.S. and European efforts to pressure Iran to shut down its nuclear program." Now comes word, via the always excitable Matt Drudge and the FT, that Tehran, according to the United Nations, possesses enough enriched uranium for a ...
Fin. Times
Sister Toldjah —
UN: Iran holds enough uranium for bomb
Shocker: Iran Holds Enough Enriched Uranium for One Nuclear Bomb
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) visits the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, 350 km (217 miles) south of Tehran, April 8, 2008 ...
And remember, Cheney wanted a pardon last week for Scooter Libby
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... to be investigating trafficking of weapons in and out of Iran? The then Vice President decided it was more important to get petty revenge against Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, for debunking the Iraq/yellowcake/Niger claim of the Bush Administration than to, uh, KEEP ACTUAL WEAPONS OUT OF THE HANDS OF ROGUE NATIONS. These are the guys that we were told for eight years were "keeping us safe." Well, now the chickens unleashed by Cheney's vindictive, petty revenge have come home to roost: Iran has built up a stockpile of enough ...
Fear! Panic! War! Again, Still, Forever...
Once Upon a Time... —
... Change the specific details as required -- although even that is barely necessary -- and you can apply all the arguments I made then to this story from the Financial Times -- which as I write this is, of course, linked by a huge red headline on Drudge. ...
Barcepundit (English edition) — ... THE UN CONFIRMS that Iran has enough uranium for at least one nuclear bomb. Have a great weekend.
Two pathetically covered stories
Rising Hegemon —
... 2. OH NOZ, Iran has enough "enriched uranium" to build a bomb. Yeah, genius, except they haven't done that yet have they -- nor shown any desire to do so, as of yet? You have to make enriched uranium capable of being weapons grade. Yet, the BOMB 'EM 'TIL THE RUBBLE BOUNCES brigade will be out in force today (no doubt also cursing the mortgage bailout). Golly, another country wants to bomb me, that sure sounds like the world's worst incentive for not building "the" bomb. ...
UN: Iran has enough uranium for nuclear weapon
PoliGazette —
UN officials told the Financial Times that Iran has produced enough uranium to build a nuclear bomb.
They said Iran had accumulated more than one tonne of low enriched uranium hexafluoride at a facility in Natanz.
If such a quantity were further enriched it could produce more than 20kg of fissile material – enough for a bomb.
“It appears that Iran has walked right up to the threshold of having enough low enriched uranium to provide enough raw material for a single bomb,” said Peter Zimmerman, a former chief scientist ...
THE 'GOLDEN HOUR' GIVES WAY TO POLITICAL KUMBAYA
Dr. Sanity —
... Additionally, we have this news from the always reliable (reliable in the opposite direction you want it to be) United Nations: ...
This Is A Test
Jules Crittenden —
... But no pop quiz. It isn’t like Obama didn’t have time to study for this news. Financial Times : UN says Iran has enough uranium for a nuke. So, if you’re Obama, do you: (A) Talk to mullahs. (B) Bomb mullahs. (C) Let the Israelis bomb mullahs. (D) Line up allies against mullahs, and make sure mullahs know they are staring down the barrel of a bombing. Choose as many as you like. Explain. please show your experience. (Cheat sheet: If you’re George Bush, it’s easy. D, with credible options on B and C. Because mullahs only respond to credible threats of force. 2004.) ...
Bibi Netanyahu anointed; now what - for settlements, Iran?
The Moderate Voice —
... policy and sustain peace negotiations with the Palestinians and the Syrians.
Barak and Livni have said they favor going into the opposition.
Look for lots of blogs at MSM and the usual suspect sites to offer opinion and conjecture about whether this is going to happen in the next six weeks and what, if it does happen, it means for the U.S. and, more anxiously, Iran, Gaza and the West Bank - the settlement movement in particular.
Don’t forget this U.N. report about Iran and uranium:
Iran has built up a ...
Things to Watch
BlondeSense —
... regarding the Palestinians severely curtailed by the far right and ultra-religious parties that are posturing to join the coalition. Lieberman's list of cabinet ministries is mind-blowing (among them, Public Security and the Foreign Ministry). Part of Lieberman's platform included requiring all Israeli Arabs to either take a loyalty oath or forfeit Israeli citizenship. Stay tuned to this one, folks; it's gonna get nuts. Moving east, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has disclosed that Iran enriched a lot more uranium that it had first estimated. By ...
OMG Iranian Nukes!
Firedoglake —
... online this morning, you were greeted with shocking “news” – here’s one of the first versions from the usually more sensible Financial Times: ...
