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Iran Nuclear Chief Wants Fast Overhaul of Arak Reactor
2021-09-20
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The new head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has said he wants to speed up the conversion of the country's Arak heavy water reactor into a research facility.

Under a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, Tehran agreed to modify the Arak reactor so that it could not produce military-grade plutonium.

"This project must be reconfigured and returned to operation as soon as possible," Iranian media on Saturday quoted Mohammad Eslami as saying during a visit to the site this week.

No time frame was specified.

The nuclear deal gave Iran sanctions relief in return for tight controls on its nuclear program, monitored by the UN.

Tehran has gradually rolled back its nuclear commitments since 2019, a year after then US president Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
withdrew from the multilateral deal and began reimpozing sanctions.

Iran said in 2019 that a secondary circuit for the Arak reactor had become operational as part of its redesign, but that the reactor's primary circuit, which contains the core, was still being built.

It also said that the US withdrawal from the nuclear accord had slowed the reactor's conversion.

Eslami's comments came just days after the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, visited Tehran and reached a temporary arrangement to continue surveillance of Iranian nuclear facilities.
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Posted by:Fred

#2  I'm sure your neighbors would be willing to help with the renovations.
Posted by: Mercutio   2021-09-20 07:51  

#1  Yes, yes. Definitely rush it along. The eventual "accident" will be easier to explain...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-09-20 04:58  

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