U.S.Official: Iran Could Have Material For 10 Weapons

[AGENDA21]

Robert Joseph, undersecretary of state for arms control, on April 21 cited Iranian claims earlier this month to have converted enough uranium for 110 tons of UF-6 gas for enrichment in centrifuges, an amount he said could provide material for more than 10 weapons.

Joseph told reporters in Washington that the United States believes Iran is now moving quickly to establish its nuclear program.

"It's fair to say, I believe, that the Iranians have put both feet on the accelerator. They're moving very quickly to establish new realities on the ground, associated with their nuclear program," Joseph said.

Another senior U.S. diplomat, Nicholas Burns, called on Russia to cancel a planned sale of air defense missile systems to Iran because of Iran's nuclear development.

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/04/90649d6c-82be-4504-8a47-a379c793568b.html

[Mikimouse]

1. Blahblah blahblah...terraterrra terraterra...bombombomb bombomb...

War is a good thing, because it gives * something else to play with, other than his Cheney.

[EFerrari]

5. All this saber rattling is working out nicely for oilmen, too.

:eyes:

[Oversea Visitor]

2. So now

all gas all 110 tons of gas :rofl:

110 tons of gas make 10 nuke aaah ok weapon hmmmm
What nonsense is all this

Uuuurgh undersecretary of state
:puke:

[Warren Stupidity]

3. They could have lots of things.

But it is very unlikely that actually they have enough weapons grade enriched uranium for even one bomb. in fact there is no evidence that they have any weapons grade enriched uranium at all. Iran is legally allowed to enrich uranium under the terms of the NNPT.

[leftchick]

4. Who is Robert Joseph?

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/jspecial071803.html

Jason Vest, writing in The Nation, identified Joseph as one of a group of policymakers associated with the pro-Israel Center for Security Policy:

"At this writing, twenty-two CSP advisers – including additional Reagan-era remnants like Elliott Abrams, Ken deGraffenreid, Paula Dobriansky, Sven Kraemer, Robert Joseph, Robert Andrews and J.D. Crouch – have reoccupied key positions in the national security establishment, as have other true believers of more recent vintage."

Joseph is among the chief advocates of "counter-proliferation," – as opposed to "non-proliferation," – which seeks to use the issue of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons as a pretext for war rather than a reason to engage in disarmament negotiations. If a dangerous wackiness is a general characteristic of the neocons in government, then surely the National Institute for Public Policy's 2001 report "Rationale and Requirements for U.S. Nuclear Forces and Arms Control," in which Joseph collaborated, bore all the hallmarks. As William Hartung and Michelle Ciarrocca put it, the report recommends "developing a new generation of 'usable' lower-yield nuclear weapons, expanding the U.S. nuclear 'hit list' and expanding the set of scenarios in which nuclear weapons may be used."

[Divernan]

6. "Could" is the operative word. I "could" win Publishers' Clearinghouse too

nt

[Eugene]

7. Even if they have the gas, it will take them years to process it

with their current facilities. Iran claims to be upgrading
its capacity but that is much easier said than done and
it remains to be proven.

[Cooley Hurd]

8. Americans aren't buying it this time...

They can flap their neocon jaws all they want, but if Bush (overtly) attacks Iran before the midterms, the Repugs in congress are going to be out on their asses.

I can't post this article enough:

Iran Can Now Make glowing Mickey Mouse Watches

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Despite all the sloppy and inaccurate headlines about Iran "going nuclear," the fact is that all President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday was that it had enriched uranium to a measly 3.5 percent, using a bank of 180 centrifuges hooked up so that they "cascade."

The ability to slightly enrich uranium is not the same as the ability to build a bomb. For the latter, you need at least 80% enrichment, which in turn would require about 16,000 small centrifuges hooked up to cascade. Iran does not have 16,000 centrifuges. It seems to have 180. Iran is a good ten years away from having a bomb, and since its leaders, including Supreme Jurisprudent Ali Khamenei, say they do not want an atomic bomb because it is Islamically immoral, you have to wonder if they will ever have a bomb.
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[symbolman]

9. And of course it's also fair to say

that Joseph is INDEED the EASTER BUNNY.

The MEDIA needs to be IMPEACHED FIRST. If This was the French Revolution, it wouldn't be the Aristocrats heads that would be rolling for the pleasure of the crowd, it would be TV PERSONALITIES, LIARS, DECEIVERS, CROOKS.. they should be held accountable for FAKING a war for profit and shipped off to the Hague along with the rest of these war CRIMINALS for a TRIAL..

Let them report the news to the vermin inhabiting their cell, on suicide watch, interviewing RATS and roaches as they wait to be hanged for MURDERING a big chunk of Humanity for sheer PROFIT and egos.

Put assholes like this clown "diplomat" in Rubber Rooms down in Crazy Town where they belong and please bring us some intelligent HUMAN BEINGS to run the world.