A new round of scare stories about Iran getting “closer” to producing weapons-grade uranium have been sparked today after a glitch in one of the Fordo centrifuges accidentally over-enriched some of the uranium being processed, making traces of 27 percent enrichment instead of the 20 percent target level.
The IAEA report said Iran explained the small amount as a “technical glitch” and officials said that it was a reasonable explanation. It didn’t stop others from reporting Iran producing the “highest-known enrichment” yet, even if it was a small accidental batch.
The vast majority of Iran’s uranium is enriched to 3.5 percent, the level needed to power the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant. A smaller amount has been enriched to 20 percent, aimed at producing fuel rods for the aging US-built Tehran Research Reactor, which produces medical isotopes.
Officials have repeatedly railed at Iran for being able to enrich uranium at all, and particularly over the 20 percent enrichment, which is technically “highly enriched uranium,” though dramatically short of the 90%-plus level needed for actual weapons grade uranium.
The Iran wire story today in the Minneapolis corporate press had a headline that was borderline hysteria. The actual story was nothing new. The alleged reading was a tiny per cent over the so called 20% limit. The one constant in the propaganda drive for war with Iran is that US allegations against Iran are consistently false.
ynetnews says: "The diplomats who demanded anonymity because their information is privileged said the find did not necessarily mean that Iran was covertly raising its enrichment threshold toward weapons-grade level."
More "diplomats" leaking at opportune moments? I'm shocked!
Enrichment way beyond 20% still has peaceful uses, whereas weapons grade is 90% and higfher.Talking about enrichment, Iran should enrich above 90% to change the facts on the ground, then start negotiating.
Next step — A quantum leap toward evil most irreversible
In a world where the goal is to be free of all nukes and never the use of force to overcome evil, evil being a crime in any fair and just society, Iran is going all out for the good and Empire USA has no option on the table that is not pure evil.