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See the immense area destroyed by a nuclear firestorm

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John Hagee, The closet Anti Semite

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Enriching Iran's Uranium: Obama Gives Iran's Nuke Program a Helping Hand

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius passes on a report in Nucleonics Week that Iran's uranium enrichment may be stuck at 3.5% due to impurities.

The Iranians have not been able to remove low percentages of metallic fluorides from the UF-6 feed stock that they've laboriously enriched to 3.5% U-235 over the past five years. This has the potential to stop their enrichment program cold—at the level used for civilian nuclear power.

Thus, the Obama administration's offer to have the Iranians' impure 3.5% UF6 shipped to Russia where it can be enriched to 19.75% in that nation's modern, high-capacity radio-chemical plants may not be of merely incremental assistance to the raving anti-Semitic military junta that runs Iran. It may be essential for the continuation of their own independent bomb program (independent, that is, from whatever of North Korea's bomb program they're sharing).

In my October 15 column for TIA Daily, I noted that the Russians would return the highly enriched fuel back to Iran in the form of uranium oxide. It turns out the Russian-purified and Russian-enriched fuel is metallic fuel for Iran's little medical isotope reactor.

So not only will the 19.75% enriched uranium get Iran past a chemical stumbling block they haven't been able to resolve in their uranium bomb program; it will get them metallic fuel that can be converted back to highly purified uranium hexafluoride gas very, very easily.

Our president, his advisors, and his State Department have so deep a contempt for the United States and all of Western Civilization that they didn't look into what the Russian deal would give Iran before they offered to sign onto it. All they were interested in was whether or not it would be an effective gesture of "open-handed" American submissiveness that would calm Iran's military junta. Well, it was effective, alright. Obama's negotiating team has moved the doomsday clock for Israel forward from 11:45 to 11:58 pm in one single step. The Russian deal probably gave Iran's leaders the first good night's sleep they've had in years.

Thank you, Barack Obama, friend of dictators, enemy of America.Washington Post columnist David Ignatius passes on a report in Nucleonics Week that... more

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Report: Iran incapable of producing nuke within six to eight years

A Washington Post report published Sunday is drawing a wave of cheers across the... more

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Beneath the hype: Is Iran close to nukes? Pt.2

Iraq whistle-blower Greg Thielmann: Military threats may push Iran to restart... more

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AMERICAN JOURNALISTS SILENCED IN FOREIGN LANDS

American investigative journalist, and author, Dr. Paul L. Williams, will begin his... more

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Report: North Korea has nearly restored nuclear plant

North Korea is in the final stages of restoring facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear... more

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Iran has Passed the Test that Iraq Did

Iran has Passed the Test that Iraq Did Eric Margolis 5 October 2009 The leaders... more

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Oh SNAP! the repubs were wrong! Still no nukes in Iran.

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Trilateral Chief lusts for World War III

Several people have expressed muted outrage over Zbigniew Brzezinski’s call for... more

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IAEA secret report: Iran worked on nuclear warhead

The UN nuclear inspection agency believes that Iran has "sufficient information" to... more

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US Intelligence Agencies Say No New Nukes in Iran

Secret updates to White House challenge European and Israeli assessments. The U.S.... more

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N. Korea 'in final uranium enrichment stage'

(CNN) -- North Korea's state-run news agency said Thursday that the country has sent a... more

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Iran Nuclear 'Threat' Hyped: IAEA's ElBaradei

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The true story of Nuclear

The Italian government, completely ignoring the will of the people who voted for the... more

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The situation in Iran

The public accusations of one of the opposition leaders in Iran, Karroubi, about... more

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IRAN vs. ISRAEL?

What should Israel do to defend herself against Iranian Nuclear weapons? -

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Iran Able To Test Nuke In 6 Months

VIENNA - Iran is blocking U.N. nuclear agency attempts to upgrade monitoring of its atomic program while advancing those activities to the stage that the country would have the means to test a weapon within six months, diplomats told The Associated Press Friday.

The diplomats emphasized that there were no indications of plans for such a nuclear test, saying it was highly unlikely Iran would risk heightened confrontation with the West — and chances of Israeli attack — by embarking on such a course.

But they said that even as Iran expands uranium enrichment, which can create fissile nuclear material, it is resisting International Atomic Energy Agency attempts to increase surveillance of its enrichment site meant to keep pace with the plant's increased size and complexity.

For Iran to amass enough fissile material to conduct an underground test similar to North Korea's 2006 nuclear explosion, it would likely have to kick out monitors of the IAEA — the U.N. nuclear agency — from its one known uranium enrichment site at Natanz. Technicians then could reconfigure the centrifuges now churning out nuclear-fuel grade enriched uranium to highly enriched, weapons-grade material.

Iran is unlikely, however, to want to do that. Such a move would immediately set off international alarm bells and could bridge rifts on how strongly to react — Russia and China, which have resisted Western calls to increase pressure on Iran over its nuclear defiance, would likely endorse more sweeping U.N sanctions and other penalties.

Secret site?
With the U.N. nuclear agency strictly limited in its nuclear monitoring of Iran, the existence of a hidden enrichment site that could supply the weapons-grade uranium needed for a nuclear weapons test is also possible.

IAEA chief Mohamed Elbaradei has repeatedly warned that his agency cannot guarantee that Iran is not hiding nuclear activities. Iranian nuclear expert David Albright on Friday put the chances that such a secret site exists at "50-50."

But even a hidden enrichment plant meant to upgrade material to weapons level would likely have to be fed with low-enriched uranium from the Natanz site. So transporting that material would not escape the agency's detection.

In any case, international action — and possible Israeli attack — would be triggered at the latest by a nuclear test explosion.

Iran is still considered years away from developing a reliable nuclear warhead delivery system. So tipping its hand with a nuclear test, should it want to own such weapons, would make little sense.

"We are talking here not of intent but capability," said one of two western diplomats accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Like his colleague from another country, this diplomat — who has access to intelligence on Iran's nuclear program — demanded anonymity in exchange for discussions of the highly confidential issue.VIENNA - Iran is blocking U.N. nuclear agency attempts to upgrade monitoring of its... more