Iran Ready To Begin Uranium Enrichment Within A Few Months -- Official

[TomClash]

Iran Ready To Begin Uranium Enrichment Within A Few Months -- Official

VIENNA, Sept 13 (AFP) - Iran is ready to resume enriching uranium within a few months although no decision has been reached, a senior Iranian official told AFP Monday, in the clearest sign yet that Iran will end a year-old enrichment suspension that was to still worries about its nuclear ambitions.

"Iran should be able to start enrichment activities within a few months but high-level decision makers still have not yet decided about the timing," Hossein Mousavian, head of the Islamic republic's delegation to a meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, said.

Mousavian said that Iran has reached self-sufficiency in centrifuge technology, the key to enriching uranium which can be fuel for civilian reactors but also the explosive core for atomic bombs.

Centrifuges are used to spin a uranium gas in order to refine highly enriched uraniums.

http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=27058

[TomClash]

1. You will note the US is barely mentioned in this article at all

and the British, French and Germans are carrying the ball on negotiations.

Just like John Edwards said.

[Wright Patman]

2. The elephant in the room

that no one ever wants to mention is Israel's nuke arsenal. It will never be dismantled and therefore (among other reasons) that region of the world will always be on the verge of Armageddon. I just don't want U.S. citizen-soldiers (or the increasing number of non-citizens) to have to participate in it.

It shows how much power a lobby has when an issue is literally "off the table" and never up for discussion.

[DulceDecorum]

6. A lobby is like a night flower.

It thrives in the dark and dies in the sun.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1093750152956&p=1078027574121

[bemildred]

3. Somehow, I don't think they are waiting for pernission. nt

[democracy eh]

4. someone should forward this article to the current Israeli government

maybe they can bomb the facilities by proxy
yah know, test out those new bunker busters, make sure they work

ahh funny to see the pieces in motion

what kind of a mess are Kerry & Edwards going to inherit.

and people complained when the Democratic white house staff supposedly stole all the 'W's off the keyboards (I know a complete lie)

but W will leave the middle east on the brink (if not the midst) of total (potentially nuclear) war

now that is what I call a turd.

it good to start the morning in a pissy mood

[shadu]

7. Let us hope Iran has already acquired nukes

They will need them to fend of the US and israel.

[leesa]

5. Our next war, even though Bush literally FORCED them into this position

What choice do any of these countries have now but to produce nukes to avoid what happened to Iraq?

[dennis4868]

8. BUT BUT BUT....

cheney says that Iraq was the threat....