UN report: Iran has enough uranium for three nuclear devices
IAEA report finds Iran currently has 22 kilograms of uranium enriched at levels of 20 percent, and a total of 2.8 tons of uranium enriched at 3.5 percent.
By Yossi MelmanIran has accelerated its nuclear program and currently possesses a sufficient supply of enriched uranium to make three nuclear devices, assuming it speeds up enrichment to 90 percent, according to a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The report was presented ahead of a discussion by the IAEA board of governors, as well as the organization's General Assembly, which will meet in Vienna this month.
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Technicians measuring parts of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant in this undated photo. |
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According to the findings, Iran currently has 22 kilograms of uranium enriched at levels of 20 percent, and a total of 2.8 tons of uranium enriched at 3.5 percent. The material is being supervised by IAEA inspectors and Iran cannot make use of it for military purposes without this being known to the international community.
The report raises concerns, however, over what is described as Iran's consistent rejection of the IAEA decisions regarding the identity of the inspectors, and points out that in June Iran prevented two inspectors it did not like from entering its nuclear sites.
Iran's efforts to interfere in the organization's ability to inspect its nuclear sites are also highlighted in the report, which essentially suggests that Tehran is following a predetermined path - that Western intelligence services have argued is aimed at achieving military nuclear capabilities.
Experts say the recent batch of sanctions are not deterring Tehran from its goal. Both Israeli and American intelligence organizations believe that if Iran continues to progress technologically at this pace, it will acquire military nuclear capability by 2014.
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...every plea it makes against Iranian nuclear program will fall on unsympathetic ears. While it is true that many countries did impose sanctions on Iran, it is mostly just a token resistance. Anyone with half a mind can see that this clearly a case of double standars. Not being any particular supporter of Iranian regime, in all honesty, Israel's government is not much better. This whole screaming about Iranian threat just feels like a bully that has found out about another bully attempting to encroach on his turf. While Israel may be a more shrewd and eloquent bully than Iran, it still does the same thing Iran is desireous of doing; controls, to one extent or another, region of Middle East. So the case is clear cut. Either both Iran and Israel have nukes, and some sort of strained detante is established due to both parties being too powerful, or both countries are disarmed of their nuclear weapons, and continue to talk peace in earnest. Neither party is a saint, but none of us is perfect. Otherwise, all this pointing fingers at Iran just sounds like a classic Israeli right wing rhetoric of "they do even worse things than us". Except, in this case, Israel has done far worse thing; it has nuclear weapons, while Iran has the capability to build them.
To scare the Israeli people enough to support an attack against Iran despite Iran have done nothing? "Shock/scare-news" like this one only fills one purpose, to divide even more. Iran didn't threaten Israel before Israel started to threaten Iran. Maybe both the Iranian and Israeli leaders and papers simply should stop the ranting against eachother? Maybe they should, if not get best friends, at least stop agitate against eachother? Wouldnt that be much more easy than starting another war with all the costs it would mean in human lifes aswell as money. Wouldnt it? It's so damn tragic to see this hunger for war and blood you can find in some peoples writings. I think the people of the Mideast deserve peace for once, not a new war. Peace <3
Iran is a great country AND That's NOT to do with Israel.
I fear that this entire time the game for Israel is to keep focus on a non-existent, bluffed up threat from Iran so as to diminish Iran's ability to operate as a regional powerhouse. This includes all sorts of fabrication, propaganda, and espionage -- even lies about incitements to war. While in the mid term, this may result in increased attention and benefit from Israel's allies, it also threatens to strain Israel's relationship wit its allies in the long run since the entire basis for the accusations of a belligerent and nuclear arm-phillic Iran are 100% false, exaggerated or otherwise presented inaccurately.
He wasn't sure if the retaliation from Iran would be nuclear or not.
You seem to think Israel is like this military powerhouse when even Israelis will embarrassingly admit their battle on a SINGLE front against a rag-tag militia in 2006 didnt go nearly as planned...
1 production of leu has increased 15% since last may. 2 iran has produced 22 kilograms of 20%enriched uranium. enrichment of uranium to 20% signifies a nuclear breakout since further enrichment to weapon grade uranium has been mastered. 3 iran has on a number of occasions under-reported the amount of nuclear material at the natanz enrichment plant thus making inspections unverifiable. 4 iaea agency seals, designed to prevent diversion of enriched uranium, at natanz were broken on several occasions. hence it is impossible to verify whether or how much enriched uranium was diverted. 5 iran is developing laser enrichment technology and is carrying out r&d on third generation centrifuges. both techniques would measurably improve iran's ability to rapidly enrich uranium. iran has refused to provide the iaea with information regarding these developments. 6 iran has refused to provide access to its heavy water reactor at arak to iaea inspectors. 7 iran has still not provided the iaea with iformation on its weaponisation program. no information has been provided regarding the testing of high altitude explosives or of the re-design of ballistic missile cones which could hold nuclear bombs. conclusion: it is indisputable that iran is pursuing the development of nuclear weapons and of the ballistic missiles necessary to deliver them.
A country whose President has threatened to wipe Iran off the map. What's the problem? Mutually Assured destruction will come into play, and Iran will not be subject to an AIPAC led war of conquest by the United States.
sorry to inform you, but the unsc has four times sanctioned iran for its nuclear weapons program. the united states has imposed additional sanctions and has been joined by western allies. in other words, the international community does not want iran to have nuclear bombs. the arab states do not want iran to have nuclear bombs. the only ones who want iran to have nuclear bombs are israel haters, be they muslims or communists.
sorry to inform you, but the unsc has four times sanctioned iran for its nuclear weapons program. the united states has imposed additional sanctions and has been joined by western allies. in other words, the international community does not want iran to have nuclear bombs. the arab states do not want iran to have nuclear bombs. the only ones who want iran to have nuclear bombs are israel haters, be they muslims or communists.
The sanctions have been imposed not because Iran has nuclear weapons the sanctions have been imposed because Iran is enriching Uranium after Iran was offered the facilities in Russia for enrichment for Irans peaceful sivil nuclear programme. The sanctions have absolutely nothing to do with a nuclear weapons programme, because there is no proof. Besides it's all pointless Iran has the knowledge and the capability to achieve parity with Israel at any time if they wish to do so. And there is no evidence that they do wish to.
One day Iranian oil and gas supplies will run down. It makes perfect sense to use the wealth they provide now to secure a strong self-sufficient and exporting nuclear energy position in the future. In fact neither the Arab states, nor their people, want any nation in the region to have nuclear weapons and the states have made serious proposals to this effect. However, well over half the Arab people do believe that if Israel possesses such weapons the region would be safer if Iran had them too. The way to get rid of the threat of nuclear weapons is to get rid of the weapons. All of them. Similarly if you want an area free of threats then stop issuing them. What is the difference between the utterances of Rabbi Yosef and those of Hamas extremists? Who started it is a chicken and egg question. The important thing is to stop it.
Iran is sanctioned for its nuclear program, not its "nuclear weapon program". There are rumors saying Iran is trying to get nukes, rumors spread by the same people who claimed that Saddam was 1) friend with Usama bin Laden 2) had weapons of massdestruction which both rumors gt proven to be lies in the propaganda of war. Now the same people claims about the same thing from Iran. I don't trust proven liers. Why would I? Do you?
This is faux news because Iranian scientists have never concealed that they are enriching uranium to 20%. Ahmadinejad has even set out his plan to have 20 reactors and a capability to produce fuel for them in house, even exporting the stuff under appropriate supervision. As for having reservations about some inspectors, the IAEA is on a US leash and it is not unreasonable to have suspicions about some of them. Let the IAEA apppoint others in their place.
...nothing!!!there is not such a statement inside the UN report! I understand sensationalism helps to sell...also on the bbc site is reported: " a confidential report seen by BBC.." what confidential report???its all on the IAEA webpage!!!
All the supporters of Israel know very well that Israel has nukes.Even some Israelis threaten to strike Tehran with nukes.Now,how do you do that if you don't have one. But Israel will want us to believe that they're angelic and don't have nukes.The IAEA chairman just a few weeks ago asked Israel to open up it's nuke facilities and join the NPT.After the humiliation he received in Israel , poor Amano wants to look tough by picking on Iran. Amano's one sided approach only weakens his organization and makes other potential nuclear nations go underground (Even dangerous). The "international community" should know by now that Tehran's not backing down and the longer this game goes on the more they loose their credibility and expose their hypocrisy.
What;s good for the goose is good for the gander?
Israel has enough Plutonium for between 150 and 200 warheads of varying sizes, including H Bombs which are known as city destroyers. Obviously the validity of this information can be gauged by the fact Vanunu was kidnapped from Italy and imoprisoned for 18 years 11 of them in solitary confinement.
vanunu had no such information. he was a technician who took some pictures.
And Israel has enough uranium for 300 nuclear devices? and the rest of the world for 1 million nuclear devices?
After Obamas loss or just before hand. No other nation threatens her neighbors as does Iran to "wipe them off the map." Apparently, the Saudis' offered Issrael their air space IF they would strike Iran. Go for it, Iran needs to be freed from maniaical mad men calling themselves 'religious'. Who in their right mind builds a bomb threatens to use it on their neighbors and is not taken seriously? Perhaps parts of Iran will be 'wiped off the map"?
How much fissile material has Israel got stored ithout any supervision?At least Iran allows the inspectors in,way more than I can say for Israel.Apart from the US using nukes on Japan.Israel was close to using them on Syria and Egypt in the Yum Kippur war codenamed TEMPLE.Iran has no intention of making a bomb,Israel is using its propaganda machine to deter media attention from the horrific treatment of Palestinians and to get more Aid frrom the gullible US
gloats Bambi and kisses Rahm Emanuel.
Unless Israel is willing to pull its IDF out of Palestine and parachute them into Iran, with its reserves, this is just scaremongering. The US isn't going to war with Iran. The US has offered Israel its nuclear umbrella. The US also has troops on the ground and at risk manning advanced weapons to guard Israel from Iranian missiles. But if that's not enough, Israel will just have to do its own thing, all the while assuring it does not start a war between the US and Iran. If you cannot spare the soldiers from one optional war, don't start another optional war.
if the article, which reports on iran's nuclear weapons program, is pointless, then all attempts to gather intelligence on wmd's is pointless.
Look what we found out about Saddam's WMDs. They didn't exist. And it only cost just under 50,000 US casualties and nearly 200,000 Iraqi casualties to find out how bad the "intelligence" was. That is an expensive way to find your "intelligence" is worthless.
saddam admited to his fbi interrogator that he lied about wmd's because he was afraid of iran. he also admitted that he would have rec-constituted his wmd's: he had the capabilities to do so. lastly, the number of iraqi casualties are lower than they would have been under saddam's continued rule.
But if you think that was cheap, send your troops.
The dodgy dossier used by the British and American governments claimed Saddam could launch wmd's within 25 minutes as justification for war. The fact they didn't exist means essentially we were sold a war based on a lie, and until Iran detonates a nuclear device, there is no way that any politician who values his job is going to advocate war on Iran. Apart from Sarkozy who retires in two years and was a former MOSSAD operative working for Tzipi Livni.
http://www.iaea.org/About/Policy/GC/GC54/GC54Documents/English/gc54-14_en.pdf
They are talking about low enriched and almost raw-material uranium. So what? Uganda and Nigeria has largest Uranium deposits in the world. It's enough to make 3000 nuclear weapons. So what??? There is still no evidence for enriching uranium to weapon grade. Israel should sign NPT first, then talk.
3 whole nuclear weapons!!! And you have what, 200? Grow up. (Ignoring the fact that Iran has enough for 0 nuclear weapons right now: its not enriched enough.)
Nuclear devices are not necessarily Nuclear bombs and even if they were ... why not ? They generally worked as deterrence against aggression and they will continue to have that function ... even for Iran. I don't see anyone at the UN making any remarks on Israel's nuclear devices !!!!
Probably because they all support Iran IF they aren't threatened to be "wiped off the map." To do that, Iran would ahve to bomb the UN. I doubt America would not attack Iran in return and with far more fury.
Game over, EU; game over, NATO. Game over, Israel. Game over, Arab League. Game over, Gulf States. Game over, Iraq. Game over, Afghanistan. Game over, Snactions. Game over, IAEA. Game over, all the anti-Semites who post here. Act or accept Iran becoming the Asian superpower, whose export of jihad and terror will be relentless and formidable. Good bye, air strikes. Good bye, outsretched hand. Good bye, Hillary Clinton. Good bye P5+1. Welcome to Orwell's 2012. Obama: you need to stop your naiveté and face reality.
you are absolutely delusional if you think iran is becoming "the asian superpower". newsflash: china and india have ten times iran's population and BOTH have nukes. hell, PAKISTAN has nukes, and they sure as hell don't like us. yet we're alive. funny, that.
The US is busy. Will Columbia send a hundred thousand troops?
COLOMBIA COLOMBIA now write it down a hundred times. By the way Colombia has its own war, thanks to the US. Details to follow a some stage.
Thats another paranoid word. Assuming they do it. Lets assume I win the lottery too since to Zionists iassuming means a sure thing.
You like when other nations are not safe
It's pathetic.
the president who spoke in Cairo to the Islamic world about "tolerance"... The only "tolerance" Mr. Obama knows of is to let extremist regiemes who have already opening threatened the existence of another people, proliferate nukes. If Israel ever see's an iranian bomb on it's soil, you can thank the "Tolerant" president currently in the whitehouse pretending he actually cares.
I not sure what Iran is up to but I'm more worried about N. Korea, Pakistan or one of the ex-Soviet Muslim states selling them nukes or plutonium. The real problem is Iran giving newer weapons to Hezbullah or Hamas and Iran gaining influence in Iraq after the US leaves.
Edmonton is very far from Iran.
No neither you nor the 16 intelligence agencies can confirm that Iran is trying to gain weapon's capability. Why would Iran bomb Israel which has dun dun...many Palestinians living there?
the enrichment to weapons grade uranium once the technique of enrichment to 20% has been mastered is quite easy. iran has 22 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20%.
might it be this is worthless propaganda... Personally, this press organ is not exactly etalon of ethics. So, one has to stretch word "assumptions"... however very recent facts are too fresh to forget. To calm you down, Israel will not strike Iran, no matter who says what.
Some IAEA inspectors proved to be spying agents for certain countries. The Iraqi case is a perfect example. So, Iranians have the right to be concerned and the IAEA has to convince Iran that its inspectors are not spying agents for other countries.
Some IAEA inspectors proved to be spying agents for certain countries. The Iraqi case is a perfect example. So, Iranians have the right to be concerned and the IAEA has to convince Iran that its inspectors are not spying agents for other countries.
who cares what any of you anti israel bigots think... who cares what anti israel german owned haaretz thinks? iran will get theres.
what a supremacist zionist who is anti-arab and anti-Iranian thinks or tries to fabricate in order to make others think like you do. Shed your own blood if you are that paranoid. Leave the rest of us out of your paranoid delusions.
Leaving aside the relative ability of each side to deliver a warhead, of course.
3 is all you need, israel is not that big.
Iran has the right to ask for other inspectors according to NPT. Then all Iranian sites are strict control of agency. Just tell is there any in Israel and US under control?
Israel is on high ground protected and belligerant. UN agencies are busy implemneting the US and its followers aggressive machinations against Iran. It is a reapeat of Iraq frenezy few years ago which ended in the invasion and the fall of Saddam. The Iraq obscured truth is that Saddam was not the ennemy of the US or Israel, it is the opposite. But, he was useless and must be eliminated. Iran is no superpower and of the same caliber as Iraq was. Now, the US and its camp is mounting a huge and systematic war against Iran. Almost every country in the world is involved by respect or fear of the US. Had it not been for Jihadism and burns suffred by the US and its allies in various parts of Muslim lands, direct war would have been already declared and executed. Iran had some arms that Saddam did not have and the US is acreful to bloddy Iran and weaken it by seige and skirmashes. As always, Arab despotic regimes are expected to play central role to help the Western plans. The future is gloomy and Muslims have to be vigilant, their existence is in danger.
Mark Lincoln (#1) is perfectly correct, and the IAEA reports aren't at all like Fox News and the Israeli spin machine make them. I suspect this run-up to war is part of the Israeli long-term goal of controlling the Middle East economically and militarily. This can only happen if Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran are not players. Lebanon (check). Iraq (check), then next Syria and Iran (*both* of which have been threatened with nukes). If the US does it for Israel, so much the better for the criminals in Tel Aviv. The American public is now being prepared for another war.
Consequently what we are seeing is Israelis and Israel firsters deliberately muddying the waters to create the conditions for an attack on Iran by the international community.
There is something self-contradictory in Russia's behavior. On the one hand she objects to Iran enriching Uranium even to the low 3.5% level for power plants, and on the other hand supplies Iran with such processed product which allows Iran to keep her stock of Uranium. A good solution for the contradiction would be for Russia to demand from Iran partial payment "in kind" for future reactors it will build, that is, pay for the fuel rods by giving to Russia the enriched Uranium used to produce them. This should be acceptable to Iran, after all, they claim that their Uranium is enriched to serve as fuel. The fact is that Iran does not have enough Uranium to run many power plants, so they will run out of the stuff soon enough. Problem solved.
They say Israel has no nuclear warheads, BUT if it does it has 200. Now their starting to prospect on Irans. Don't believe everything you hear, analyzing all this is a waste of money and time, in my opinion either bomb the Iranian facilities or just stop talking about it, because thats what they want.
This is not enough to sell this war, even to the average American... Come on Israel, I am sure you can find a better excuse. Come on, think! How about another false flag operation? Oh, wait, how about a massive "preemptive" attack on major Iranian cities that you can later label as "self-defense", mmmh? After all according to a mis-translation by a zealous journalist, the world belives they want to "wipe you off the map". Why not use that?
The Iranian Regime is proudly polishing their nuclear crown jewels at such a feverish pace that they'll undergo serious withdrawal pains when these very dangerous toys are finally taken away from them, by force if necessary. For them, nuclear-tipped canines are what's needed to prowl the neighborhood and intimidate the inhabitants to go along with their agenda, like a fearless pit-bull would do. One can only wonder, if left unchecked, what Koranic verse religious Iran would suddenly shamelessly quote to justify the achievement of a weaponized nuclear arsenal after all these years of denials?
But wait...there are still over 150 inspectors in Iran and even the amount of enriched uranium isnt enriched enough and apparently cant be due to technical difficulties and oh yeah they actually don't have a way to deliever a bomb if they had one...too soon to panic?
the real culprit of the middle east israel, with their american funded stockpile of weapons, nuclear and otherwise
You really are clutching at straws, this wars going to be harder to sell. The 15 mins nuclear attack isn't going to wash again.
While aside from the foot dragging on details of the IR-40 reactor program most of Iran's 'violations' are 'minor', there are sound reasons for the IAEA objecting to Iran's actions, demanding more data, and refusing to consider telling the Security Council that Iran is in compliance with it's NPT commitments. Those who read the IAEA reports carefully understand that Iran is at best playing games and probably afraid to come completely clean. They also understand that no one has been able to supply the IAEA with anything like evidence that Iran has a bomb program underway. Thus the IAEA is FULLY correct in keeping pressure upon Iran, reporting EVERY deviation, prevarication, and obfuscation by Iran, and demanding FULL compliance with the NPT and the Additional Protocols which Iran signed in 2003.
Oh, this is rich. Israel and America condemn Iran. When America has thousands of nuclear weapons to destroy the planet ten times over. And Israel denies having them when the whole international community knows they do. Iran may not be a saint, but don't think for a second that Israel/USA can take the high ground. The British prime minister was right to condemn you. Best wishes from London, England.
OK, so I'm from Denmark and think that Iran shouldn't have nukes. Where's your argument now?
OK, so I'm from Denmark and think that Iran shouldn't have nukes. Where's your argument now?
Do you think Israel should have nukes? What if you were living in a neighbouring country to Isreal that has already been invaded 3 times?
well, isn't that nice and cozy Mr. Anonymous. sitting up there in London, England. Condemning people in their everyday bloodshed. Britain!! LOL! i was studying a map of the "old world", 'round 1914, and saw that there was the British Mandate of Palestine, and the British this and that of Africa; South America and all over the East. And you dare condemning us?! LOL. Best wishes to you Sir Arrogant Von Lost!! from a goy in The Land! One Love People!
Iran signed the NPT and was in breach of the NPT for 8 years. They benefitted from the treaty while they were breaking it. Now, point out how Israel and/or the U.S. have done the same.
Lars, they have no argument. They argue, but not logically. It is obvious they are only Israel bashers.
According to the documents released by US government, In world war 2 , Europeans killed 6 million Iranians, as many as Jewish people killed in Europe) from hunger by attacking Iran and sending their food to your troops in fronts, although Iran was not part of the war. Isn't it time you be alittle ashamed ? Are n't you resonsible for the attitudes Iranians have to the west? Even the conflict that Iran has with Israel is not because Iranians are anti-semite but because Israel is representing US in the region in Iranian government's eyes. I hate ahmadinejad but I hate your double standards and injustice as well.
I do wonder why you posted anonymously. But I also wonder what type of human being would trust a militant and radical Islamist regime over the USA and Israel. Help me out with this "anonymous". Your logic completely fails me.
Logic not taught in Denmark?
Who said they want bombs? If they kick out inspectors then they want bombs
you are British??
in algeria alone 200,000 people were murdered in terror attack. hundreds of thousands have been blown up in iraq.
Is you think it's ok for Israel to have nukes but not Iran its hypocrisy, simple as that. I dont think either nation, no nation at all, should be allowed to have any kind of weapons of massdestruction since thats weapons of terror, nothing more, nothing less.
Absolute bs pure psy ops. Nothing new is this so called press release, iran always maintained inspectors with security links are denied access as they can be spies. This policy has been consistant for over 8 years.
What's the amount of enriched uranium Israel holds?
Israel hasn't threatened to wipe anyone out. But then again you know that.
Reminds of Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof. You and I both know that is not the relevant question. The relevant question is why Iran want enriched uranium. I come up with no constructive answer.
how many times over do Arabs /Iran and other Moslem countries outgun Israel?
israels nuclear advantage allows it to maintain its illegal occupation of arab lands...
The billions spent on money to make one bomb to wipe out Israel is literally "not worth it". To power Iran economically so they can save their resources is yes a LOGICAL reason to enrich uranium.
I believe the North Koreans were supposed to have launched a nuclear war on us two or three years ago, or something. Remember how they tested a bomb and everything (and it was laughable)? Still waiting for the apocalypse, neocons!
That North Korea was pursuing nuclear weapons. NK had built all of the facilities necessary to produce weapons. That the lunatic right was engaged in paranoid fantasies concerning the consequences needs to be understood. Yes, the neo-cons taught the world that the solution was to build and test a bomb, then the right will never threaten you again. So far there is no evidence that Iran is willing to give up the benefits of IAEA membership and cooperation in it's power program from Russia to do what is necessary to build and test a bomb.
Such foolishness. Wait until there's a problem? Is that your solution? The price for waiting is astronomical in terms of lives and devastation.
I believe the North Koreans were supposed to have launched a nuclear war on us two or three years ago, or something. Remember how they tested a bomb and everything (and it was laughable)? Still waiting for the apocalypse, neocons!
i'm guessing enough for, what, maybe 3000? 5000?
.have we used it since the 2nd WW.Iran has threated to destroy Israel
SO WHAT we . haven't used it since the 2nd WW.Iran has threated to destroy Israel
A well propagated lie. The regime must disappear is what was said.
A regime is not a country. Jerusalem is not Israeli.
i'm guessing enough for, what, maybe 3000? 5000?
So in terms of enriched uranium, I'd guess there's enough for an additional 10,000 at the very least. During the Cold War we had over 30,000 warheads... the government says that they were destroyed, but I'd be willing to bet that they kept a lot of the parts that went into them.
I could supply a simple rule of thumb which is well known to give an estimate of the number of small, simple nuclear weapons that might have been produced by Israel. I could even supply a sound reason why Israel might have chosen to produce less Plutonium and more Tritium. But what difference does that make Yusef? That Israel has the bomb and has not immediately nuked Iran despite the lunatic right-wing government Israel has today? Anyone who starts tossing nukes around will have missiles of unknown origin arcing out of the sea and landing upon it within hours if not minutes. There are nuclear powers in the world and none of them are going to tolerate a loose cannon with nukes.
Yosef, the point being is that Israel is not making any military threats to use any nuclear weapon on any country. Iran constantly threatens verbally and by its' actions such as open missile testing and their reach. Please don't parrot that their nuclear program is for domestic uses!
so who's threating who thats my point
IAEA report GOV/2010/46 contains one thing I find disturbing. Section I., paragraph 44, concerns "The Agency has not been permitted to take samples of the heavy water which is stored at UCF, and has not been provided with access to the HWPP. While the Agency can report that Iran has made statements to the effect that it has not suspended those activities, without full access to the heavy water at UCF, the HWPP and the other facilities which Iran has announced it has decided to construct, the Agency is unable to verify such statements and therefore to report fully on this matter." While no diversion of Uranium has occurred, and no fuel has been fabricated for the reactor, this is typical of the obtuseness of the Iranians and is a real concern.
'At this pace it will acquire nuclear military capability by 2014'. Just stop this B.S. We cant handle this subject for another 4 years. It has already been going on since, 2005, 2006. 2007. 2008, 2009, 2010 and definitely by 2011, now definitely by 2014. Stop lying and scaremongering the people. Iran has as much right as any other member of NPT to enriched uranium. And stop the B.S that it threaten to wipe Israel of the map. Its all lies. Israel can also do what ever it wants with its nuclear programme JUST SIGN THE NPT>
IAEA Report GOV/2010/46, which I have a copy of, states "a total production of 2803 kg of low enriched UF6" (paragraph 6, section A.1). This is far from having 3 bombs. BTW, Iran has produced no more UF6 at the Uranium Conversion and Fuel Fabrication facility in the last year. Also Section D, paragraphs 23-26 are very revealing of how far behind schedule Iran's program is running.
You can read a fuller version of the report on European sites (just search for the phrase "2803 kg") unlike Haaretz, even though I love it dearly, which only reports on the sensationalist parts of it. Basically, it says that Iran has 22 kg of 20% uranium. Weapons-grade uranium is typically enriched to 85%. In other words, this report is a whole lot of nothing.
There is something self-contradictory in Russia's behavior. On the one hand she objects to Iran enriching Uranium even to the low 3.5% level for power plants, and on the other hand supplies Iran with such processed product which allows Iran to keep her stock of Uranium. A good solution for the contradiction would be for Russia to demand from Iran partial payment "in kind" for future reactors it will build, that is, pay for the fuel rods by giving to Russia the enriched Uranium used to produce them. This should be acceptable to Iran, after all, they claim that their Uranium is enriched to serve as fuel. The fact is that Iran does not have enough Uranium to run many power plants, so they will run out of the stuff soon enough. Problem solved.