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| OzmO:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080408/D8VTKG8G0.html Apr 8, 6:22 AM (ET) By ALI AKBAR DAREINI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tuesday. Iran already has about 3,000 centrifuges operating in Natanz, and the new announcement is seen as a show of defiance of international demands to halt a nuclear program the United States and its allies say is aimed at building nuclear weapons. "The president announced the start of the phase of installing 6,000 new centrifuges in Natanz," state television reported. Centrifuges are machines that can enrich uranium to a low level to produce nuclear fuel or a high level for use in a weapon. Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful and solely focused on the production of energy. Ahmadinejad made Tuesday's announcement as he toured the Natanz facility in central Iran. State television also quoted Ahmadinejad as saying that "other activities have been carried out" in Natanz that he would announce later Tuesday. The president's trip was scheduled to coincide with Iran's National Day of Nuclear Technology, marking the second anniversary of Iran's first enrichment of uranium. Ahmadinejad is widely expected to confirm for the first time that Iran has installed hundreds of more sophisticated centrifuges that can enrich uranium faster. The workhorse of Iran's enrichment program is the P-1 centrifuge, which is run in cascades of 164 machines. But Iranian officials confirmed in February that they had started using the IR-2 centrifuge that can churn out enriched uranium at more than double the rate. Iranian state television did not say if the installation of the 6,000 new centrifuges included the older P-1 or the advanced IR-2 centrifuges. Diplomats in Vienna told The Associated Press on Thursday that Iran has assembled hundreds of advanced centrifuges at Natanz. One diplomat said more than 300 of the centrifuges have been linked up in two separate units in Iran's underground enrichment plant and a third was being assembled. He said the machines apparently are more advanced than the thousands already running underground, suggesting they could be the sophisticated IR-2 centrifuge. But a senior diplomat said that while the new work appeared to include advanced centrifuges, they were not IR-2s. Both diplomats are linked to the Vienna-based International Agency for Atomic Energy, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, but asked for anonymity because their information was confidential. A total of 3,000 centrifuges is the commonly accepted figure for a nuclear enrichment program that is past the experimental stage and can be used as a platform for a full industrial-scale program that could churn out enough enriched material for dozens of nuclear weapons. Iran says it plans to move toward large-scale uranium enrichment that ultimately will involve 54,000 centrifuges. The U.N. has passed three sets of sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend enrichment. On Tuesday, China said it would host a meeting of officials from the five members of Security Council and Germany, as well as the EU, to discuss ways to restart negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program. |
| Hugo Chavez:
Anybody think we need a balance of power? |
| OzmO:
--- Quote from: Hugo Chavez on April 08, 2008, 07:24:08 AM ---Anybody think we need a balance of power? --- End quote --- I do, unfortunately those guys consider it righteous to wipe Israel off the map. However, it's inevitable that we will see a nuclear Power in Iran |
| Hugo Chavez:
--- Quote from: OzmO on April 08, 2008, 08:38:21 AM ---I do, unfortunately those guys consider it righteous to wipe Israel off the map. However, it's inevitable that we will see a nuclear Power in Iran --- End quote --- Do they really? I mean with the multitude of propaganda going on, where do we tell? Do they really want to destroy Israel? Achmenaninijad's translation didn't even work out to that; it came out in reality to something like removing zionism from the pages of history or somthing. I mean, they're not going to hook up the Palistinians by laying waste to their homeland with radio active wastelands via nuclear attack. The whole notion doesn't make any sence. From my reading of it, my take is they are attacking the political movement of zionism, not trying to destroy the jews, but guess what opinon gets the play in western media. |
| OzmO:
--- Quote from: Hugo Chavez on April 08, 2008, 09:00:46 AM ---Do they really? I mean with the multitude of propaganda going on, where do we tell? Do they really want to destroy Israel? Achmenaninijad's translation didn't even work out to that; it came out in reality to something like removing zionism from the pages of history or somthing. I mean, they're not going to hook up the Palistinians by laying waste to their homeland with radio active wastelands via nuclear attack. The whole notion doesn't make any sence. From my reading of it, my take is they are attacking the political movement of zionism, not trying to destroy the jews, but guess what opinon gets the play in western media. --- End quote --- Yes, i trust your research into what Achmen%#$%$#@ really said. However, aren't we dealing with people who believe it's righteous to wage war, kill innocent people and die fighting for Allah and extreme muslim principles? |
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