Will our policies toward Iran and Russia force us to become weaker and lose more to Russia and Islam??
Or will our policies force us to conquer Iran as we did Iraq??
In a revealing interview on Al-Arabiya TV last Friday, IAEA Director-General Dr. Muhammad ElBaradei estimated Iran needs as little as six months to develop a nuclear weapon and yet he still threatened to resign if any Western nation launched a military strike to prevent Tehran from going nuclear.
"Considering the number of centrifuges and the quantity of uranium Iran has... if Iran wants to turn to the production of nuclear weapons, it must leave the NPT, expel the IAEA inspectors, and then it would need at least... six months to one year... to obtain highly-enriched uranium in sufficient quantities for a single nuclear weapon," ElBaradei said, according to a MEMRI translation of the June 20 program.
"In my view, a military strike would be the worst thing possible. It would turn the Middle East into a ball of fire, ElBaradei continued. [E]ven if Iran does not produce nuclear weapons today, it would implement a so-called 'crash course,' or an accelerated plan to produce a nuclear weapon.
Like it is'nt already on a crash course to get it as soon as they can??hahaha
If military force is used, I would conclude that there is no mechanism left for me to defend The day I believe that the international system has begun to collapse is the day I will resign," added el-Baradei.
Thats right because he is only defending Irans rights to build a NUKE!!!hahahah
The Egyptian-born diplomat also downplayed the Iranian nuclear threat, saying there is no justification for a military strike since, "I don't think that what we are seeing today in Iran poses a clear, imminent, and immediate danger."
To view a video clip of the interview on MEMRI TV, click here
Of course a man named Muhammad would not care if the danger to Israel is immediate just as long as that danger comes into being he will be happy...hahahaha
UN nuclear inspectors examined an alleged nuclear site in Syria on Monday that the US said was the location of a secret reactor that was nearly completed when it was bombed by Israel nine months ago. Neither Syria nor the International Atomic Energy Agency have released any further details about the visit, which Damascus finally consented to on June 5. Syria denies that it has a secret nuclear program and claims that Israel fired at an ordinary military structure in al-Kibar. Syria has been on the IAEA proliferation watch list since April, after the UN watchdog agency received photographs from the United States that reportedly showed a North Korean-designed reactor that could have yielded plutonium. In 2006 Pyongyang evaded IAEA checks and tested a nuclear device produced from a similarly designed reactor. Meanwhile, Syria continues to resist IAEA requests to inspect three other sites for facilities that would have been necessary for the alleged reactor to function, claiming that they are conventional military bases. IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei condemned the Israeli raid and criticized the US for not having shared its intelligence material on Syria with the UN agency sooner. In regards to yesterday's inspection, ElBaradei said, "It is doubtful that we will find anything there now, assuming there was anything there in the first place." Last week the IAEA chief said that there was no evidence Syria had the skills or fuel needed to run a nuclear complex, an assertion questioned by Washington, reports Reuters.
IAEA chief says uranium is not 'sufficient evidence'
The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, confirmed on Monday that traces of uranium were found at the site of a suspected Syrian nuclear plant allegedly bombed by Israel last year.
Speaking to reporters in Dubai, ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, stressed that the existence of uranium alone is not sufficient evidence of undeclared nuclear activity.
"There was uranium but it does not mean there was a reactor." He said, "It's not highly enriched uranium. It could have come from so many different ways, that's why we're looking at so many different scenarios."
Uranium must be "enriched" through an extensive process before it can be used in a nuclear weapon. Although not enriched, the uranium found in soil samples was determined to be man-made.
The Syrians have refused to permit more inspections at the site, and have suggested the source of the traces could be depleted-uranium bombs used by the Israeli air force to destroy the facility that was nearing completion. Damascus noted that the US has also used depleted uranium munitions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
After the reported bombing took place in September 2007, satellite imgages showed that Damascus immediately moved to obstruct any outside inspections by completely razing the damaged structure, burying the rubble, and quickly erecting a different building on top of it.
ElBaradei called on Israel and other countries to supply satellite images of the installation taken prior to the bombing. "We need cooperation from everybody," he said. "We are not going to be able to reach a quick conclusion or jump the gun unless we have absolutely credible information."
'Iran has enough enriched uranium to build nuke'
Nuclear experts say IAEA reports show Tehran has 630 kilos
Nuclear experts scanning over reprts from the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded that Iran now has enough enriched uranium to produce an atomic weapon, though it needs to be further refined, according to The New York Times on Thursday.
"They clearly have enough material for a bomb. They know how to do the enrichment. Whether they know how to design a bomb, well, that's another matter," top-physicist Richard Garwin told the newspaper.
Recent IAEA reports say that Iran has produced rougly 630 kilograms of enriched uranium, which is enough to produce a single nuclear weapon if purified further.
It is unknown whether Iran has enough centrifuges configured to enrich the uranium to weapons-grade material, since there may be hidden facilities besides the Natanz plant. "[We cannot] provide credible assurances about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities [in Iran]," the IAEA has stated.
IAEA approves nuclear aid to Syria over US objections
After three days of deadlocked debate, the International Atomic Energy Agency at mid-week approved technical aid for a Syrian nuclear reactor despite suspicions that the country was building a secret plant that could have produced fissile material needed to make atomic weapons. The decision came over the objections of the US and its allies, who pointed to an unfinished probe by the UN nuclear monitoring agency that recently produced soil samples and other evidence indicating Damascus was indeed constructing a covert nuclear plant at al-Kibar. The site was allegedly bombed by Israel last year and was then covered over by Syrian authorities. With Iran pressing hard for the nuclear threshold, Syria now joins as many as eight other Arab states who have recently indicated they intend to pursue 'peaceful' nuclear programs.
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Russia says Iran rocket raises nuclear suspicions: report
The Rocketeers of Persiaby Staff Writers
Moscow (AFP) Feb 6, 2008
A rocket fired into space by Iran earlier this week raises "suspicions" over Tehran's claims to have no ambitions to build a nuclear weapon, a Russian foreign ministry official told domestic news agencies Wednesday.
"Any movement on creating a weapon of such potential of course worries others too, and, in addition, raises suspicions concerning Iran over its possible desire to create a nuclear weapon," Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov was quoted as saying by Interfax and RIA Novosti. "A long-range rocket is one of the components of such a weapon complex. Of course it provokes concern," Losyukov was quoted by Interfax as saying.
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...eport_999.html
Iran tests new space missile while increasing nuclear production
Iranian state media reported advances in the Islamic regime's nuclear development and missile programs on Wednesday. In direct defiance of UN demands that Iran halt its nuclear program, the Islamic Republic announced that it now has 5,000 centrifuges operating at its uranium enrichment plant, a significant increase from the 4,000 it said were spinning in August. The UN Security Council has already imposed three rounds of sanctions on Iran in an effort to halt operation of the centrifuges needed to produce uranium, the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon. Later Wednesday, state media reported the successful launch of the "Kavosh 2" rocket, a ballistic missile designed to "create a basis for scientific and technological development in the field of space." Israeli missile experts contend that Irans space program is really a cover for developing inter-continental ballistic missiles.
Iran holding massive naval maneuvers near Persian Gulf
Iran on Tuesday launched a large-scale, six-day naval maneuver in the Sea of Oman, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, which will involve about 60 warships and numerous aircraft, the official news agency IRNA, reported. This type of "maneuver has been rare in the past 30 years both in its size and commissioning of new weapons," IRNA quoted the maneuver's spokesman, Adm. Ghasem Rostamabadi, as saying. Iran regularly holds war games in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, which are linked by the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway through which 40 percent of the world's crude oil passes. Tehran has repeatedly warned that it would close the narrow strait if the US or Israel attacked its disputed nuclear program. Israels former deputy defense minister, Ephraim Sneh, said on Tuesday that "Iran's unprecedented naval activity is actually a drill for taking over the Gulf all-important oil route. "The Iranian aggression is a threat to the entire world and should not be passed over quietly," warned Sneh.
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Or will our policies force us to conquer Iran as we did Iraq??
In a revealing interview on Al-Arabiya TV last Friday, IAEA Director-General Dr. Muhammad ElBaradei estimated Iran needs as little as six months to develop a nuclear weapon and yet he still threatened to resign if any Western nation launched a military strike to prevent Tehran from going nuclear.
"Considering the number of centrifuges and the quantity of uranium Iran has... if Iran wants to turn to the production of nuclear weapons, it must leave the NPT, expel the IAEA inspectors, and then it would need at least... six months to one year... to obtain highly-enriched uranium in sufficient quantities for a single nuclear weapon," ElBaradei said, according to a MEMRI translation of the June 20 program.
"In my view, a military strike would be the worst thing possible. It would turn the Middle East into a ball of fire, ElBaradei continued. [E]ven if Iran does not produce nuclear weapons today, it would implement a so-called 'crash course,' or an accelerated plan to produce a nuclear weapon.
Like it is'nt already on a crash course to get it as soon as they can??hahaha
If military force is used, I would conclude that there is no mechanism left for me to defend The day I believe that the international system has begun to collapse is the day I will resign," added el-Baradei.
Thats right because he is only defending Irans rights to build a NUKE!!!hahahah
The Egyptian-born diplomat also downplayed the Iranian nuclear threat, saying there is no justification for a military strike since, "I don't think that what we are seeing today in Iran poses a clear, imminent, and immediate danger."
To view a video clip of the interview on MEMRI TV, click here
Of course a man named Muhammad would not care if the danger to Israel is immediate just as long as that danger comes into being he will be happy...hahahaha
The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, confirmed on Monday that traces of uranium were found at the site of a suspected Syrian nuclear plant allegedly bombed by Israel last year.
Speaking to reporters in Dubai, ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, stressed that the existence of uranium alone is not sufficient evidence of undeclared nuclear activity.
"There was uranium but it does not mean there was a reactor." He said, "It's not highly enriched uranium. It could have come from so many different ways, that's why we're looking at so many different scenarios."
Uranium must be "enriched" through an extensive process before it can be used in a nuclear weapon. Although not enriched, the uranium found in soil samples was determined to be man-made.
The Syrians have refused to permit more inspections at the site, and have suggested the source of the traces could be depleted-uranium bombs used by the Israeli air force to destroy the facility that was nearing completion. Damascus noted that the US has also used depleted uranium munitions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
After the reported bombing took place in September 2007, satellite imgages showed that Damascus immediately moved to obstruct any outside inspections by completely razing the damaged structure, burying the rubble, and quickly erecting a different building on top of it.
ElBaradei called on Israel and other countries to supply satellite images of the installation taken prior to the bombing. "We need cooperation from everybody," he said. "We are not going to be able to reach a quick conclusion or jump the gun unless we have absolutely credible information."
'Iran has enough enriched uranium to build nuke'
Nuclear experts say IAEA reports show Tehran has 630 kilos
Nuclear experts scanning over reprts from the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded that Iran now has enough enriched uranium to produce an atomic weapon, though it needs to be further refined, according to The New York Times on Thursday.
"They clearly have enough material for a bomb. They know how to do the enrichment. Whether they know how to design a bomb, well, that's another matter," top-physicist Richard Garwin told the newspaper.
Recent IAEA reports say that Iran has produced rougly 630 kilograms of enriched uranium, which is enough to produce a single nuclear weapon if purified further.
It is unknown whether Iran has enough centrifuges configured to enrich the uranium to weapons-grade material, since there may be hidden facilities besides the Natanz plant. "[We cannot] provide credible assurances about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities [in Iran]," the IAEA has stated.
IAEA approves nuclear aid to Syria over US objections
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Russia says Iran rocket raises nuclear suspicions: report
The Rocketeers of Persiaby Staff Writers
Moscow (AFP) Feb 6, 2008
A rocket fired into space by Iran earlier this week raises "suspicions" over Tehran's claims to have no ambitions to build a nuclear weapon, a Russian foreign ministry official told domestic news agencies Wednesday.
"Any movement on creating a weapon of such potential of course worries others too, and, in addition, raises suspicions concerning Iran over its possible desire to create a nuclear weapon," Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov was quoted as saying by Interfax and RIA Novosti. "A long-range rocket is one of the components of such a weapon complex. Of course it provokes concern," Losyukov was quoted by Interfax as saying.
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...eport_999.html
Iran tests new space missile while increasing nuclear production
Iran holding massive naval maneuvers near Persian Gulf
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