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Iran Activates 5,000 New Centrifuges As Part Of Nuclear Program - Ahmadinejad
2013-08-01
[IBTimes] Iran's outgoing president Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad has said 5,000 new centrifuges are ready to start operating at the country's nuclear facilities. These are in addition to the 12,000 centrifuges already in operation.

"12,000 centrifuge machines are now running in our nuclear sites and 5,000 new centrifuges are ready to start operation," the hardline president told the country's IRIB1 TV.

The development has come despite Yukiya Amano, director of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), expressing concern over Iran's controversial nuclear programme.

The IAEA said in June that Tehran was violating international regulations by increasing the number of centrifuges.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?...
a US thinktank has noted that Iran may be able to achieve weapons-grade uranium by mid-2014.

The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said Iran could achieve this by installing thousands of centrifuges at its Natanz and Fordow nuclear facilities.

"Iran could have time to make enough weapon-grade uranium for one or more nuclear weapons," says the ISIS in its July report.

The American body, citing images of Iran's nuclear sites obtained from commercial satellites, had earlier said Tehran was trying to hide the links between its Lashkar Ab'ad nuclear facility and firms involved in laser technology.

At the Lashkar Ab'ad facility, experiments of enriching uranium through laser isotope separation have been conducted in the past. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
IAEA officials, who probed the facility, say laser is used for civilian purposes.

Ahmadinejad, while speaking elsewhere, also noted that the country had achieved the technology to enrich uranium to higher purity levels through lasers.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Iran has once again unleashed its secret weapon -- Photoshop!
Posted by: Iblis   2013-08-01 15:53  

#1  Lindsey Graham's Sept-Oct 2013 timeline occurs roughly at the same time as Japan's fear of China making a forced landing in the Senkakus wid former or ex-PLA veterans which again coincides wid China's construction in the disputed Spratlys + the possible establishment of Kurdistan "pro forma" in Syria.

N-O-T counting anything else between now + then.

POTUS Bammer = sequester-hit USA, UDOD may be facing a "perfect storm" of geopol dangerous crises in the ME + East Asia long before the formal US Campaigning for 2014 even starts???

Iff Iran is to go Weaps Nukulaar + China to take over the "Second Island Chain" e.g. GUAM-CNMI-WESTPAC by 2020, then pragmatically the time for them to do so is when the Radical Islamist-described "weakest US President in history" is now in the Oval Office + under Sequester, etc.
N-O-T come Jan 2017 when he isn't.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-08-01 02:43  

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