Iran production of higher enriched nuclear to start Tuesday

So Yonatan, I guess we may not convince each other, but in my view, one could take your post and replace the word "Iran" with "Israel" and be just as right or wrong as in the other way around. The similarity, that I see to the Iraq war: the "evidence" is somewhere between shaky and none existing. Ahmadinejad said, he does not believe in nuke weapons. Is he lying ? Look at history: with how many neighboring countries /people is Iran in conflict ? How agressive is Iran to gain territory ? How does Israel`s history compare ? Or the US`s, for the matter of nukes ? To be honest Yonatan, I see no reason to doubt Ahmadinejad one bit more than Bibi or Obama. And I see no evidence, sorry. In my view we`re seeing a fabricated media hysteria to have an excuse for war.

Hi Yonatan, I dont ignore any evidence, I just think there is none. Now I`m not exactly a fan of the somewhat backward Iranian regime, but EVIDENCE for their nuclear program ??? Look at the CIA, surely a competent player in this game, would you agree ? The latest report about Iran`s nuclear weapons production was released in mid 2009. NO evidence of nuclear weapons program. IAEA inspectors were allowed into the country, result: NO evidence of a nuclear weapons program (Israel does NOT allow any inspections of it`s nukes, does it ?) Underground installations: is that EVIDENCE ? (Israel has nuclear underground installations) Iran`s declaration: numerous Professors of the Farsi language have stated that Ahmadinejad was mis-translated. Could that be something, that you ignore ? He said, (*according to the profs) "this regime shall disappear from the pages of history" which is something that is not exactly bad, considering the treatment of Pals. But does NOT mean, destruct of Israel

Al Jazeera English today has full coverage of Iran's nuclear announcement. It also has a timeline that shows when the United States and/or the IAEC issued comments to or about Iran's nuclear program. Hypothetically... a person could... look at the dates of all the announcements by the United States and the IAEC, and try to correlate them with political events that have (supposedly) nothing to do with Iran. A brief look at the dates does suggest something... or maybe not. Lets leave it there?

They always want war, but somebody else to fight it. What was it that Mel said??? Drunk??; I think not. He was right on point. No war with Iran. Lose some of your men and women for a change as Iran hasn't attacked anybody in modern history. How about Israel? umm, once a month or so. Khazars are warlike creatures unlike the true children of Abraham, the Israelites. Let Israel go over and mess with Iran; let us know how you made out!!!

You people lie like a rug. When will you ever tell the truth, about anything?

Whatever Iran is,they're not stupid. They're not going to put eggs in basket and hope the US gives them back hard boiled for them. I'm no fan of Iran,but Obama should stop with is condescending attitude,that all he has to do is give a speech,and the world will bow down.

Israel has a history of being a terror state, starting from its inception. Your post is simply a case of the pot calling the kettle black. I don't see Israel egging to give up her nukes. Iran will go nuclear, get used to it. Perhaps sanity will then return to Israeli theft of land and murder of the protestors. Open both eyes, you will see better that way.

enriched nuclear fuel?????

As the Uranium enriches so does the Molybdenum. Thus there will be the (as I see it) beneficial effect of causing more centrifuge problems and reducing the Separative Work Units, the efficiency of the cascades to decline, slowing over-all production. There is the very bad effect of raising the paranoia of Israel which is already in a state of near-hysteria. There is also the (once again seen by myself as beneficial) effect of risking failure for reasons already discussed) which will increase the industrial/medical crisis which the failure to refuel the TRR will create.

17: "Saddam Hussein all over again" And when the Americans invaded they found that Iraq did not have any WMDs. The entire fear campaign was built upon a lie. Same thing here, 17.

The deal from "the West" boils down to this: If YOU agree to give us everything you have then WE promise to refine it for you and hand it back. Boiled down to the fundamentals, it involves Iran exchanging something TANGIBLE (their uranium) for something INTANGIBLE (an I.O.U.). The Iranians are suspicious, and that is reinforced by "the West's" refusal to consider any modification to that deal i.e. it is practically yelling out "This is a set-up!!!". Funny, but I think the Iranians have noticed...

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Dear Palestinian, Be careful what side you take in this. Remember nuclear fall out know no boundaries. I am Zionist but have sympathies for your interest and for both parties to arrive at a viable solution. Iran gaining nuclear power will not improve the opportunity for peace for anyone in the region, least of all you.

It is not really that complicated. The Iranian Dictatorship wants to keep enough enriched uranium to build a Bomb. It is playing for time while the centrifuges spin towards a nuclear attack on your country. Sane countries are not interested in any deal that will allow it to continue doing this.

".....disappointing Western nations who had hoped Iran would agreed to send its nuclear stockpile for processing abroad." In other words, disappointing Western nations who thought Iran would be dumb enough to give up all its enriched uranium in exchange for a PROMISE(!?!) that they will give it back one year later.

Because the enrichment at each stage of a cascade is a PERCENTAGE of the feed material, 20% is MUCH easier to enrich to Weapons Grade. Thus the enrichment to the 19.75% necessary for the Tehran Research Reactor is a BIG step in the wrong direction. There is immense turmoil within the Iranian goverment(s) right now and it is clear that many in the Ahmadinejad government favor the IAEA plan or a variant of it. It is also clear the REAL power rests in a bunch of technical illiterate clerics. I have no doubt that the technocrats running the Nuclear program are in favor of the IAEA deal and can comprehend the new mess of problems their ailing centrifuge program is in for. ALL seem oblivious to the fact that those who have worked themselves into a hysteria in Israel will be even more terrified as a result of this latest move.

russia, china, india, pakistan,north korea, isreal, on US vessels and airplanes, and france and brit...seems like a nuclear weaponns convention with only iran not having any

The disguise has been rumbled. Ahmadinejad is none other than our very own and beloved by all..Ringo Starr. (with hair transplant) From now on songs like "We all live in a Yellow Submarine" and "Hello Goodbye" will take on a whole new meaning.

With the constant threat of attack by Israel, Iran would be foolish not to develop nuclear weapons as a deterrent to Israeli aggression against them. The US has also proven that developing nuclear weapons in secret is beneficial to a country, just ask India, Pakistan and Israel. One must also remember that the havens to Al-Queda are Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, all "friendly" countries where the US is actively occupying, so is it wise for the US to try to destabilize the only country in the region where terrorists cannot hide?

20% enriched nuclear fuel is used for commercial light water reactors to produce electricity or for research reactors which is in line with Iran?s stated intentions 80% enriched nuclear fuel is needed for atomic bombs

"In getting to 20% enrichment all the hard work has been done. About 950 particles in every 1000 have already been removed. Take away another 40 particles and you`ll be at 90%." - Peter Pete what is: 950 ____ 1000? Or to simplify: 95/100? Sorry this forum does not make for neat clean fractions.

The preponderance of evidence is that Iran has a reactor fuel enrichment program. If it has another program it has managed to purchase an immense number of essential equipment without anyone noticing. The entire process IS being monitored and the much ballyhooed 'secret' plant was in fact revealed by the iranians not the USA, and Iran did so well within the requirements of the NPT. I am all for keeping the pressure on Iran until it is forced back into compliance with the Additional Protocols. The situation right now is that the world's major intelligence services as well as the IAEA are keeping a high level of scrutiny of ANY potential for a secret program and have produced nothing. I have no 'trust' of the Iranian government but I do trust the ability of the major powers to detect a nuclear weapons program. Not even Israel's went unnoticed, it was just ignored.

The purpose of the deal is to defuse the Israeli time bomb. Israel has been working itself up to a war with someone, anyone, but especially Iran. No one but Israel wants another war in the region and the offer was made so that Iran would no longer have sufficient Low Enriched Uranium sitting around to be able to perform a breakout and enrich it to the very high level necessary to make a bomb. The 5+1 and IAEA are not interested in 'stealing' the Uranium but in damping down the Israeli threat to the region. Iran in typical fashion is oblivious to the grave nature of the situation. You certainly can't accuse Russia and China of being enemies of Iran. But they are onboard for the deal BECAUSE the target of the deal is to neutralize Israel, not bilk Iran.

The Iranian ore contains a very high percentage of Molybdenum. Molybdenumm aka "Moly", has been at the root of many of the problems that iran has had in enriching it's Uranium. Moly tends to build up in centrifuges and throw them off balance. Either the cascade has to be shut down and be cleaned or it will be shut down when a centrifuge comes apart. Moly is also a neutron poison. The moly content of ASTM C753-04 spec reactor fuel, such as for a light water power reactor can be pretty high, not exceeding 250 ppm. One of the things that France was going to have to do was further purify the Iranian Uranium. . . There are several ways of doing thi But the ASTM C1462-02 fuel required by the Tehran Research Reactor must not contain more that 100 ppm. The problem being that the centrifuges separate the Molybdenumhexfloride with the desired Uranium 235. So it is very questionable whether Iran can actually produce fuel for the TRR from their own Uranium in time to refuel that reactor.

Iran says it is ready to exchange the enriched nuclear fuel but the exchange has to be done on stages. We exchange few hundreds of kgs and if the process is done smoothly and without deception then we keep exchanging. On the other hand, US and the West say NO, first give us everything and then we exchange. Well! Well! Well! the US argument seems to be fishy! Only fools would accept such this deal.

I dont understand why the West not accept the by Iran required conditions for the swap deal, after which the West can fully control that they don.t do an enrichement to 20% and higher. It seems me that the West in his mistrust simply dont want that deal itself and is seeking for an justification to the western public to start a new war. Can anybody explain me why it is wise to reject the iranian conditions if the offered swap deal was honestly meant. Iran is still prepared to negotiate the issue, Ahm said. The order for enrichement is also not more than a try to achieve the iranian conditions for the swap.

The COWARD IDF will only attack countries that do not have the means to defend themselves as we have seen so many times in the past. A nuclear Iran is the solution to this problem of keeping their citizens safe from this type of Israeli aggression. Iran is a peaceful country and NO HISTORY of attacking its neighbors.

generating station fuel for fuel for a reactor to produce medical isotopes (the offer that has some security for Iran in it, rather than the US offer where Iran is asked to pay everything upfront, and hope that for once it gets what it paid for), the West is upset that Iran is moving towards an alternate source? How surprising (NOT)

By now everyone should have realized that Iran will not make any concessions because they are being backed by China and Russia. The Chinese think that because they now have a monetary fortune that they will not be as affected by the turmoil and instability that Iran will cause if it gets nuclear weapons. Just the mere fact that Iran has threatened Israel?s existence and their leaders admission of Trying to cause sufficient world instabilities so that their Islamic messiah (Mahdi) will appear should be sounding alarms to world leaders with common sense. It is time to get serious on this matter and pick a side. Iran threatened to destroy Israel, who would be their next target if this is allowed? http://www.ellisskolfield.com/pdf/IslamReviewed.pdf

Iranians are preparing for war, if they keep ignoring mankind petitions, then the world should prepare for that war.

Iran = Iran , you wont get a Iraq scenerio if attacking Iran. and the oil will remain in Iranian hands. we learned from 2003 example.

I am sure Iran is able to produce a nuclear weapon If Pakistan has got one.The question is can the use it as a threat. Yes they can but it is highly unlikely that they can actialy use it. One government official in Turkey who were present during the meeting with Iran said in a news paper Mr erdogan said to Iran his government believes Iran has no intention to make a nuclear weapon however if it produces a nuclear weapon turkey will be the first enemy of Iran. We will see interesting time

Troops are already amassed on either side of Persia. Force them to stop. It's that easy. Follow the EU and Iran gets its nuclear arsenal. Besides, Iraq cannot be stabilized until Iran's influence is cut. The same goes for Afghanistan and Pakistan respectively, but that is another story.

When the time is right, we are going to hit him so hard that he will say "uncle"

For all western world - Education of iranians from Iran to advanced technologies is wrong. Otherwise, you are making your enemy stronger (smarter).

Not true enough, true enough. It will be true enough when it will also say "not bigoted enough".

Your friend Gormless also ignored the Iranian Dictatorship's denial of the Holocaust in addition to the long list of other things that you rightly pointed out. Khamenei and Ahmadinejad are ready, ripe and rotten for the dustbin of history. Free Iran, Democracy Now!!! Death to the murderers!

Iran will make the neuclear heads and export them to Lebanon for further use in the coming war - "2006-extended" !!!!! Take Iran and Hizbollah out before it's to late !!!!

Something that was lacking in the case of Iraq. You ignore, first of all, the present article. You ignore the secret Iranian nuclear installation, You ignore the thousands of centrifuges, used to refine uranium. Why soes Iran need all these? You ignore the existence of many underground nuclear installations. What are they trying to hide? You ignore the Iranian IRBMs, capable of carrying nuclear warheads. You ignore Iran's declarations that Israel must be destroyed, You ignore the Iranian quest for hegemony in the Near East, of which nuclear power is an important component.

Are these the so called Protocols of Zion?

take a sad song and completely change the tune. I come to you cap in hand, as a Jew who seeks to perfect his Matzah. I need to know the proportions of seasoning, how much salt and pepper to use, how much of the little GOY'S blood should I drain and who will bless the Matzah? I know that it takes a certain kind of scholar to know the answers, and that is why I come to you, humbled by your exrtraordinary love of Mankind.

hope it gets what it is looking for. As for Lebanon, who is going to complain about Lebanon having self defense? The whole world condemned Israel's carnage in Lebanon 2006.

So now, as always, it's suddenly become 'they will' instead of 'they do' have WMD. As to Iran murdering their own people, and the other bits of propaganga that you slide into the mix to distract from Israel's crimes, I ask you this: How many 1000s of foreign citizens have Israel and USA murdered/killed or made homeless in the last 5-10yrs in comparison to Iran? How many ME/Afghanistan refugees have US/Israel taken in? I'm not an Ahmadinajad supporter, but I don't distort his words for propaganda effect; The Zionist entity(zionist form of government and thought), not Israel the State, needs to be erased. This is true, but the same can and has been said of many others(SA Apartheid Regime/ Idi Amin/ Pol Pot, George.W.Bush). Where is Israels de Clerk? Israel only has Ian Smiths and Pik Bothas, a timid or non existent left-wing and religion to hide behind. Israel needs to demonstrate humility, compassion, and empathy for the weak. Charity begins at home, next door, not in Haiti

zf: "They have been enriching uranium for years well beyond 20% & nobody knows how much weapons grade uranium they already have which hasn`t been admitted" Pontification as evidence, zf? You have to back that claim up, sunshine, rather than simply pronounce it as a self-evident truth. I'll point out that not even ISRAELI military intelligence makes that claim, and they are very quick indeed to tell some very tall tales.

You mislead guy, didn't you get it that Israel was the only Middle Eastern entity that secretly build 190 atomic bombs long long time ago? So, why are you desperaltely crying so loud. Israel is the source of all evil in the Middle East. Believe it or not. In fact, it has no legal stand in being there where it is, to start with. Move this country to Berlusconi's Sicily and All will be relieved.

CJK: "all those who had dreamed of getting iran to give up its nuclear weapons were fools." Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons, Cipora CJK: "iran will never give up its nuclear weapons voluntarily." Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons, Cipora What Iran has is low-level enriched uranium, and they are being asked to give away something tangible (uranium) in exchange for an intangible (a promise that it will be returned to them). They don't believe the sincerity behind that offer, and with good reason. The Iranian counter-proposal is better, because both sides MUST be honest because neither side can rip of the other side.

Leave your personal grievances and selective memory behind for a momemnt. The Iranian regime called for the death of anyone depicting Mohammed while simultaneously holding a Worldwide Holocaust Cartoon competition and a Conference to discuss the actuality of the Holocaust. These guys, unlike Israel murder and repress their own people, they hang children and they now claim that he who rules the Middle East Rules the World. You got that? They hang more children than any country in the World bar China and they are becoming more repressive by the day. Ahmadinejad calls for an end to the "Entity" while developing what WILL become Nukes a plenty in order to turn the Middle East into a Shia led Empire led by Iran of course. I'd brush up on your Koran if I were you. This story is gonna run and run and so am I and whole bunch of other Jews.

People of all faiths live together in America. It sickens many of us that President Obama has our troops still occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, and sending our drones are in Pakistan and Sudan. These wars are bankrupting us morally and financially, so there's no way we can afford a war with Iran, which is no threat to America and our arsenal.

Cipora, I think you're confused in your geography: Not Iran, but Israel, is the one with the nuclear weapons. Not Iran, but Israel, is the one who occupies another people. Not Iran, but Israel, is the one who drops 500lb bombs, cluster bombs and white phospherous munitions on civilian populationsts. Terrorists do not exists, only acts thereof, which Israel perpetrates on a much larger scale under a legal umbrella, though this legal umbrella exists outside of every legal framework currently in existence. Why do we bother complaining anyway? For truth! Justice! The dice are already cast, the result already fixed; Israel and it's allies will always be right. Why? Because they're really the ones with the WMD.

Exactly, and even beyond that. We shall not fool ourself that sanctions - whatever sanctions in whatever form and intensity - will change the Iranian attitude and intentions toward the goal to become a nuclear power. Since it appears clear that obtaining nuclear weapons is THE milestone in its aggressive hegemonial ambitions and its global pan-islamist policy in ME (and beyond), the Iranian regime will never give up its atomic program, under any circumstances, even at the cost of a pre-emptive attack from outside and ensuing war. The mullahs have already raised the stakes and no doubt they will lift up to the maximum. The world must open the eyes and be very aware of what kind of regime it will have to confront in the next future.

They can go to the Indian Ocean. But if they pass the Strait of Hormuz, they will find themselves in a trap, should hostilities start. Neither the Arab Golf States nor Iran want them there. Imagine Iran sends sends it's destroyers to the Mediterranean.What would be the reaction of Israel or the USA? Present Israeli shortsighted politicians like Netanyahu,Lieberman, Ayalon & Co unlimited will lead Israel to desaster, sooner or later.

They have been enriching uranium for years well beyond 20% & nobody knows how much weapons grade uranium they already have which hasn't been admitted Any deal done with Russia, the west, IAEA means nothing becauuse we don't know what they already have and when they are ready will admit to having and then just say the rules of the game have changed we already have nukes, we are pulling out the NPT making it legal and we intend to fully enrich uuranium in future. All this political dealing for Iran has been nothing but a delaying tactic so they can enrich uranium till they reach a point when they will feel be ready to make a deal. Iran needs nukes to further their long term political & military ambitions Right now they want to also continue development of missiles and get the international pressure focused on Israel then if they can get the west to disarm Israel when they are ready they will come out as the regions only nuclear power & Israel can't restart its nuclear program overnight

what for are all the many tens of thousands of missiles pointed at israel from all directions in syria and lebanon? syria has just armed hezbollah with solid fuel missiles. what are they for?

1. that it will suicidally nuke Israel, bringing down a rain of 200 nuclear missiles upon itself? 2. that nuclear weapons will make it a major player in the Middle East, and that Israel will be less ... cheerful? ... optimistic? .... attractive to immigrants? ... under an Iranian pall? First, state the threat accurately.

And now, they`re coming for Iran. Reason ? Identical to Iraq.

In getting to 20% enrichment all the hard work has been done. About 950 particles in every 1000 have already been removed. Take away another 40 particles and you'll be at 90%.

and I did not speak out, because I was not a communist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out,because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me. ---Rev. Martin Niemoller

all those who had dreamed of getting iran to give up its nuclear weapons were fools. iran will never give up its nuclear weapons voluntarily.

Ynet News. Cairo ensured safe passage for two Israeli missile boats passing through the Suez Canal. Arab media predict the Israeli missile boats are on their way to the Persian Gulf. What for?