INTL Iran rejects UN offer to send uranium out of country

Spirit Of Truth

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See - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvJdfS5r87A

And what about those 600 drums of heavy water spotted at the Isfahan nuke site by IAEA inspectors?

http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20091117_2936.php

Funny how such items are left around to be seen by inspectors since the implication is Iran is seekig to produce a plutonium device (that can fit on the warhead of an Iranian missile) using their Arak reactor and Israel must act relatively quickly to stop this.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22648

http://wok3.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/irans-nuclear-ambitions-and-a-two-point-implosion-device/

Meanwhile there's those pesky S-300s:

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?p=3562182

And what nation is behind all these effective provocations for Israel?

Why....our 'friends' the Russians:

http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2009/11/fall-of-berlin-wall-rise-of-antichrist.html

You smell any coffee yet?
 
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Iran rejects UN nuclear proposal

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Updated Nov 18, 2009 21:05

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258566460715&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday ruled out sending enriched uranium out of the country for further processing, effectively rejecting the latest UN plan aimed at preventing Teheran from building nuclear weapons.

The United Nations last month offered a deal to take 70 percent of Iran's low-enriched uranium to reduce its stockpile of material that could be enriched to a higher level, and possibly be used to make nuclear weapons.

"We will definitely not send our 5.3-percent enriched uranium out of the country," Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki told the semiofficial ISNA news agency.

Instead Mottaki said Iran would consider some kind of swap of nuclear fuel inside Iran.
The UN proposal envisioned that Iran send out its own uranium which is enriched at less than 5 percent - enough to produce fuel. Enriching uranium to much higher levels can produce weapons-grade material. In exchange, the UN proposal would have sent back fuel rods that cannot be readily turned into weapons-grade material.

The United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany are seeking to persuade Iran to accept an enrichment freeze under a plan that would allow it to export its enriched material in return for rods.

Under that plan, the Iranian uranium would, after further enrichment in Russia, be sent to France where it would be converted into fuel rods. Those rods would be returned to Iran for use in a reactor that produces medical isotopes.

Mottaki said that Iranian experts were looking at the modified proposal to determine what amounts of uranium should be exchanged for fuel rods.
He also dismissed a comment by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Iran had only one choice, the most recent UN plan.

"Diplomacy is not all or nothing. Mrs. Clinton's comments that Iran must accept only this proposal is not diplomatic."

Also on Wednesday, Iranian Oil Minister Masoud Mir-Kazemi announced that his country's petrochemical plants would be capable of producing 14 million liters of gasoline daily in the event of fuel sanctions, according to a Press TV report.

Gasoline production in such plants is costly compared to the imported gasoline on which a percentage of Iran's domestic consumption currently relies, the oil minister was quoted as saying.

US President Obama warned this week that Iran is running out of time to come to resolution with the West.
 
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Strong suspicion that Iran has either already met the goals of its 'peaceful' nuke program or will do so shortly.

Sounds as tho' they're finished even pretending to cooperate in talks - their stalling has achieved the desired results - the weak West wimps out while their centrifuges went spin, spin, spin.
 
Spirit Of Truth

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Again, why were the 600 tanks holding 30 tons of heavy water left anywhere visible to IAEA inspectors at the Isfahan nuke site....especially given that the heavy water would mainly be used at the heavy water reactor nearing or at completion in Arak?

IMHO, this is just more obvious baiting by the Iranian nuclear program which seems geared mainly to elicit an Israeli military strike more so than actually develop a nuclear bomb:

http://www.spiritoftruth.org/iraniannuclearbomb.htm


Iran is advancing on dual nuclear bomb track: uranium plus plutonium

DEBKAfile Special Report

http://www2.debka.com/headline.php?hid=6381

November 19, 2009, 4:29 PM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile's military sources report that the UN inspectors' October visit to Iran turned up dual-track progress in support of its nuclear weapons program: Feverish activity was registered in the production of plutonium at Isfahan as an alternative to the Fordo enriched uranium plant near Qom which starts up in 2011.

The IAEA experts discovered 30 metric tons-IS of heavy water hidden in 600 tanks, each holding 13 gallons, according to the report they handed in last week to agency headquarters in Vienna.

From the shape of the tanks and other indications, the experts concluded that this stock had not come from the heavy water plant at Arak but was imported.

Metric tons-IS measure the amount of energy a given quantity can release. The force and types of nuclear bombs are gauged in kilotons or megatons. The American nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II was equal to 20 kilotons of TNT. By this standard, the amount of heavy water discovered at Isfahan would be enough to make at least one plutonium bomb when the plutonium reactor under construction near the Arak heavy water facility is finished.

Other than its civilian uses, heavy water may be used to produce tritium, which intensifies the explosive force of nuclear warheads. The discovery of quantities of heavy water at Isfahan confirms the suspicions surrounding Iran's nuclear program in three respects.

1. The long concealment of the Fordo site suggested to the UN inspectors that Iran has more hole-in the-corner nuclear facilities in the country. The discovery of a stock of heavy water further confirmed that Tehran is working hard to attain a nuclear weapon capacity on more than one track and at additional covert sites.

2. The IAEA wants to know who is selling Iran heavy water in violation of Security Council resolutions banning the sale or export of nuclear materials to Iran.

The very fact that some government or outside entity is willing to flout UN resolutions demonstrates that any further international sanctions would be ineffective for halting Iran's nuclear drive, even assuming that President Barack Obama gained Russian and Chinese backing for such penalties. This backing has so far been withheld.

DEBKAfile's sources report from Vienna that on November 10, IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei sent a request to the Iranian Nuclear Energy Committee asking it to confirm the presence of the heavy water and document its origin with a full explanation. Tehran has yet to reply.

3. The presence of the heavy water tanks at Isfahan is additional proof that the reactor at Arak is designed for military purposes, not a peaceful installation as Tehran claims.
 
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