The IAEA has issued a new report on Iran’s plan to develop uranium metal, noting that they have successfully progressed through the third phase of a four-step plan to produce fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR).
Iran has kept the IAEA informed on their intentions. The US has responded negatively to the reports, objecting to the idea of Iran making fuel for what ironically is an American-made reactor.
In the course of this, Iran took 257 grams of enriched uranium tetrafluoride and converted it to about 200 grams of uranium metal. That metal will in the future be turned into a reactor fuel plate for the TRR.
Enrichment for the TRR is considered controversial because the uranium is enriched to 20%, which is unusual these days. The reactor is from the 1960s, however, and Iran has so far not been able to replace it. The TRR is the source of radioactive isotopes for nuclear medicine for all of Iran.
Though the US objected to this process, Iran’s activity is being done entirely under IAEA oversight, and has no weaponization risk. The IAEA has offered multiple reports as the process proceeds, and the US tends to chime in with further objections despite Iran doing exactly what they’d announced in the first place.
The JCPOA nuclear deal is meant to have the P5+1 nations help Iran design a new reactor to replace the TRR. Before the deal Iran was working on a heavy-water reactor, though the US and other nations sought a redesign. The current status of the JCPOA makes progress uncertain.
Uranium isn’t weapons-grade until enriched to 90% or more. But all the warmongers will see is “Iran makes progress” and they’ll crank up the propaganda about “Atomic Ayatollahs” that’s been false for 37 years and will be for at least 37 more.
The planned for war with Iran was laid out in the Brookings Institution’s 2009 “Which Path to Persia” document. The main component for justifying a war with Iran is the rejection of a “deal” by Iran. Between the lines, a murderous false-flag to be laid at Iran’s feet is to be the trigger.
Highlights:
“…The best way to minimize international opprobrium and maximize support (however, grudging or covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a superb offer-one so good that only a regime determined to acquire nuclear weapons and acquire them for the wrong reasons would turn it down….and at least some in the international community would conclude that the Iranians ‘brought it on themselves’ by refusing a very good deal.” –“Which Path to Persia,” The Brookings Institution, p.39
“The truth is that these all would be challenging cases to make. For that reason, it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be…” –“Which Path to Persia,” The Brookings Institution, p.84
“…With provocation, the international diplomatic and domestic political requirements of an invasion would be mitigated, and the more outrageous the Iranian provocation (and the less that the United States is seen to be goading Iran), the more these challenges would be diminished. In the absence of a sufficiently horrific provocation, meeting these requirements would be daunting.” –“Which Path to Persia,” The Brookings Institution, p.66
“Given all this, there does not seem to be much utility in examining an American invasion of Iran in the context of an overt Iranian attack that produced mass American civilian casualties. It does not seem to be a scenario that the United States is likely to face, *nor is it an “option” for American foreign policy* because the outcry from the American people for an overwhelming military response would drown out all other possible approaches…” –“Which Path to Persia,” The Brookings Institution, p.67
While I’m not in favor of anyone having nuclear reactors, if the rest of the world can employ them, then so can Iran. They need power too.
Fuck Amerikkka. Who cares what the Axis of Evil—-Amerikkka and Israel—think?