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A Russian made Ilyushin Il-76. The secret self-destruct mechanism activated in mid-air. Wait until the U.S. planes self-destruct mechanism kicks in. There goes their air force. I wonder how much of their air force is operational. I would think that parts would be difficult to obtain.
Iran has revealed the existence of a secret uranium-enrichment plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday, a development that could heighten fears about Tehran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon and escalate its diplomatic confrontation with the West.
Iran told the agency "that no nuclear material has been introduced into the facility," he said. I.e. There is a third and fourth U235 bomb enrichment plant.
"In response, the IAEA has requested Iran to provide specific information and access to the facility as soon as possible."
The officials said that Iran's letter contained no details about the location of the second facility, when or if it had started operations or the type and number of centrifuges it was running. But one of the officials, who had access to a review of Western intelligence on the issue, said it was about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Tehran and was the site of 3,000 centrifuges that could be operational by next year.
An August IAEA report said Iran had set up more than 8,000 centrifuges to churn out enriched uranium at its cavernous underground facility outside the southern city of Natanz. The report said that only about 4,600 centrifuges were fully active.
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PITTSBURGH -- The government of Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it is building a previously undisclosed uranium enrichment plant.
White House officials said Western intelligence agencies have been tracking the facility for years.
One hopes Israel was aware of it as well.
Obama said officials from the United States, France and Britain briefed the IAEA in Vienna on Thursday on what they knew about the facility. The three heads of state decided to publicly disclose the existence of the facility after learning that Iran had become aware the site was no longer a secret.
Iran acknowledged its third facility in a Sept. 21 letter to the IAEA which stated "that a new pilot fuel enrichment plant is under construction in the country," agency spokesman Marc Vidricaire said. "The letter stated that the enrichment level would be up to 5 percent." Also fwiw, the Bushehr plant is, per public affairs announcements, about 96% complete as of earlier this month.
The global standoff over Iran's nuclear program began in 2002 with the discovery of two large nuclear facilities in Natanz and Arak, with the Natanz facility devoted to uranium enrichment. In Arak, a plutonium-fuel reactor was being constructed. U.S. intelligence had secretly provided the geographical coordinates of the facilities to the IAEA three months before an Iranian exile group drew attention to the facilities at an August news conference in Washington.
The public exposure led to demands that IAEA inspect the facilities, which it did in 2003, and ultimately to Iran's admission that it had kept its nuclear program hidden for 18 years in violation of an international treaty.
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They're gonna keep pushing until somebody pushes back.
Iran is currently conducting research and development on nuclear weapons, an exiled opposition group claimed Friday in Paris - identifying two locations near Tehran where such work is allegedly taking place.
"This site and centre are the locations for research and production of the explosion system of an atomic bomb, which is one of the most important aspects of the mullahs' nuclear weapons project," Mehdi Abrishamchi, an official of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said, referring to Iran's clerical leaders.
In contrast, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the Islamic state probably ended weapons-related work in 2003.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has received intelligence information indicating that such research could have been conducted in the past, but has not drawn a final conclusion to confirm this.
The ongoing efforts were being conducted by an entity called Research Centre for Explosion and Impact (MEFTAZ), affiliated with the Defense Ministry and housed in an unmarked building in Tehran, Abrishamchi said at a press conference.
Among other tasks, that centre was working on computer simulations, he said.
The Paris-based NCRI also alleged that there was a second site near Sanjarian village for building technical components and testing high explosives.
In nuclear weapons, high explosives are placed around a core of nuclear material and triggered simultaneously in order to implode the core and cause a nuclear chain reaction.
Iranian officials have told the IAEA that they experimented with simultaneous detonators in the past, but said the work was done for civilian rather than military use.
A diplomat close to the Vienna-based agency said its inspectors had not found anything suggesting ongoing Iranian efforts in that field.
Tehran's leaders say they have no interest in nuclear energy except for electricity generation and other peaceful uses.
The Paris-based NCRI made its allegations one week before Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States are scheduled to hold talks with Iran in Geneva, where the world powers expect a serious response to their concerns over Iran's nuclear program.
The NCRI is considered the political wing of the People's Mujahedin of Iran, a group that seeks to overthrow Iran's clerical regime.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Lebanon's prime minister-designate Saad Hariri on Thursday launched talks with the country's various political parties in his second bid to form a government since a June election.
Hariri, 39, began his consultations by meeting with parliament speaker Nabih Berri, whose Amal party is in the opposition.
He was then to hold a series of talks until next Tuesday with members of the various other parties, including the militant group Hezbollah which heads the opposition bloc supported by Syria and Iran.
Hariri abandoned his first bid to form a national unity cabinet after failing to secure backing for a proposed line-up from political opponents, who are insisting on having a say as to who should head each ministry.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gaddafi says launching a strike on Iran over its nuclear program will set a "dangerous precedent".
No,that would have been Osiraq, back when Saddam Hussein was running the place. Just about all decided, after they stopped fussing, that it had been A Good Thing.
"If we are talking about military action, then the question will be who will take this military action? Who will do it and who has the right to do so?" Gaddafi told the Council on Foreign Relations think-tank in New York on Thursday.
He noted that other countries including India, Pakistan, China, Russia, the US and Israel have atomic weapons.
"All of them have nuclear bombs. Why not take military action against them?" Reuters quoted Gaddafi as saying.
Israel, which is the sole possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, has repeatedly voiced its determination to halt Iran's nuclear program, even through military options.
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Precedent? Oh you mean your ass would be grass, good by me
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This is the guy that thinks the Kennedy assassination should be re-opened because Jack Ruby was Jewish and the Jews were responsible? And that the next serious pandemic is Fish Flu? Are we sure this guy's brain isn't addled by syphilis [or radical islam]?
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All of them have nuclear bombs. Why not take military action against them?
Maybe, because if you attack a nuclear armed country, they will strike back?
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Except in the case of the U.S. BO is hellbent on nuclear disarmament. Naïveté coupled with arrogance is a dangerous mix.
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Dangerous precedent - YES! But only dangerous to 3rd-rate dictators in dirtbag countries trying to get technology which makes them a menace to their neghbors (and the rest of the world).
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