Speaking at a Laser Science exhibition in Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced today that his country will begin the production of highly enriched uranium for its medical reactor.
At present Iran has been enriching uranium only to 3.5 percent, the level needed for use in its Bushehr nuclear power plant. The Tehran medical reactor will require 20 percent enriched uranium, a significant increase but still well short of the levels needed for weapons.
Ahmadinejad ordered the production to begin but officials have not yet given a date. Iran’s state media reports that Iran is running out of medical isotopes, which forced the decision, but officials still say they hold out hope for a third party enrichment deal.
Western officials are widely expected to use the increase in enrichment levels as an excuse to press for additional sanctions against Iran. Since Western officials were already pushing for more sanctions before the announcement, however, it is unclear if it will have any practical effect.
I do not see what the big deal is. Even if the Persians develop the technology to enrich uranium to the 20 percent level that still is not enriched to the degree required to make a nuclear weapon. Further, even if the Persians develop the technology and construct a nuclear weapon they will still present no threat to the lives or liberties of the American people. The Persians would never attack the United States with nuclear weapons because the United States has a nuclear deterrent that would turn Iran into a nuclear sandbox. Nor would the Persians hand off one of their nuclear weapons to a terrorist. Nuclear forsenics could quickly determine the origins of that weapon, and again if its origins are traced backed to Iran, Iran and all of its people would quickly be eliminated from the face of the earth. In short, Iran with or without nuclear weapons presents zero threat to the lives or liberties of the American people, and there is absoutely no good reason for the United States government to start a war with Iran.
Yes of course. But the Israeli lobby and the Israeli government see Irans support of Lebanese and Palestinian resistance groups as a dire threat to their colonial style dreams of having the land from the Nile to the Euphrates. The fact is the United states has once, and will again fight a war on behalf of a foreign country's interests. Not their own.
The Persians were the ones that brought up the third party enrichment deal. From the very beginning there was nothing to talk about with the Iranians. Everything they were doing was completely legal and the United states KNEW this. But they were putting on "show Negotiations" in order to show the international community that Iran was being uncooperative therefore leading to more sanctions on an international level.
The Persians had tried to swap uranium with the German government, the American government, the Canadian government, the french government etc. but they all reneged on the deal. They took their energy and destroyed it or locked it up and used it for something else. The Persians have every right to be skeptical of the west.
the nuclear weapon is 65 years old! (6 months short)
the science required is even older
nations at peace have these weapons aim at each other.
but one nation surrounded by nuclear powers enriching one of the ingredient that theoretically could be used in the future to construct nulcear weapons is a casus belli.
but then again if you put every thing out of your mind about politics and israel and what not and just take a map of the world and look at where the us army has been over the past 30 years an where it is moving it clear where its sights are set.
if it would not be for the enrichment of Uranium, Israel would find another Reason to push the USA into a War with Iran. America, it is time to cut the Purse strings to Israel. Maybe Big Pharma Or the Wall Street Bankers you bailed out cold start sharing their Wealth and donate.
America, look after your self before Israel bleeds you dry.
Good for the Iranians! They have every right to provide medicine for themselves, even if the FedGov tries to portray it as "menacing."