It Turns Out Ahmadinejad Was the Truthful One
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/05/content_422017.htm
Images show Iran heavy-water plant nearly done
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-03-05 08:44
New satellite images show a heavy water plant in Iran, intended to supply a research reactor that could eventually produce plutonium for one atomic bomb a year, is nearly complete, a U.S. think-tank said on Friday.
The photos of the plant in Arak, 150 miles south of Tehran, were taken in February by the U.S. commercial satellite firms DigitalGlobe and Space Imaging and provided to Reuters by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a U.S. think-tank.
"Adjacent to the reactor construction site (in Arak) is the heavy water production plant, which is almost completed and is anticipated to supply the necessary heavy water for the heavy water reactor," ISIS said in an analysis of the imagery.
Iran has started building a research reactor that could eventually produce enough plutonium for one bomb per year, ignoring calls to scrap the project, diplomats close to the U.N. said on March 3, 2005. The Arak heavy water production facility in Central Iran, 360 km south west of Tehran, is seen in this October 2004 file photo. [Reuters/file]While there is nothing illegal about the plant, the news that it is nearly done will likely deepen U.S. suspicions that Iran wants heavy-water technology to get plutonium for bombs.
On Thursday, Western diplomats close to the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Iran had already laid the foundations for the 40-megawatt heavy-water research reactor at Arak, despite calls by the European Union and the United Nations to scrap the project.
Heavy-water reactors can be used to produce significant amounts of bomb-grade plutonium, which can then be extracted from the spent fuel by a process known as reprocessing.
"No evidence of any reprocessing facilities can be seen in the satellite images," ISIS said in its analysis of the imagery.
David Albright, who heads ISIS and was formerly a U.N. weapons inspector, said he had also seen photographs of what appeared to be steam coming out of the Arak heavy water plant.
"We think they have been testing it," Albright said.
The Arak heavy-water production plant, along with the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, was revealed by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in August 2002, an exile group that described it as part of a secret nuclear weapons program.
Iran, which denies wanting to produce anything but electricity with its atomic facilities, later declared the Natanz and Arak sites to the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Washington sided with the NCRI view, accusing Tehran of pursuing weapons under cover of a civilian atomic program.
Iran has not been ordered by the EU to halt the heavy-water production plant, but ISIS analyst Corey Hinderstein said the plant had no purpose other than to supply the future research reactor -- which Iran has been urged not to build.
Cut to the chase... Iran has the technology to produce HEU and therefore make nukes, if it chose to do so.
So do you believe Iran's nuclear program is peaceful?
So do you believe Iran's nuclear program is peaceful?
SPAM ALERT!!
The Iran haters on this forum continually post articles that have already been discredited several times.
The Iran haters on this forum continually post articles that have already been discredited several times.
Perhaps someone could enlighten me. My understanding is that there are 2 types of uranium, a lower and higher grade. now that I think of it, maybe it's platonium that has 2 types. Whatever. For the use of nuclear power plants, the lower grade is sufficient. The higher grade (of either uranium or platonium) is only for weapons. The more I think of it, the more I think it's platonium. Anyway - if, in fact, Iran is pursuing the higher grade, and if what I have describe is correct, how could we trust Iran??
I believe that the fact Isreal has nuclear weapons is a stabilizing factor. Lets face it, they probably wouldn't be around now if they didn't have them. Unlike Syria or Iran, they aren't rushing to 'push the button' so to speak.
I agree with one poster who said that if Iran does get nuclear weapons or is close to getting them, Isreal will be the one to deal with it, unfortunately, as they'll have no choice.
JMO
I believe that the fact Isreal has nuclear weapons is a stabilizing factor. Lets face it, they probably wouldn't be around now if they didn't have them. Unlike Syria or Iran, they aren't rushing to 'push the button' so to speak.
I agree with one poster who said that if Iran does get nuclear weapons or is close to getting them, Isreal will be the one to deal with it, unfortunately, as they'll have no choice.
JMO
Anyone that believes that the U.S. .....not the democrats or the republicans, ....had nothing to do with Saddam's rise to power and sale of arms to Iraq to fight Iran, which is essients was the soviets has their head so far up their @ss that you could never see the light of day, let alone that Iran is no more a threat than .....oh I don't know Shir Lanka.
God you people are so programmed it's not even funny.
God you people are so programmed it's not even funny.
This is not about the right or the left. This is about world control and domination, and the U.S. government is nothing more than puppets for the elite. And you people that will not open your eyes are just hearded around like sheep.
Perhaps it's because the "Intelligence Community" has finally grown a pair of balls. They were liars and incompetents while they played politics, instead of intelligence. Not that they are all better now, mind you. . .
Pangloss
Why do certain types always get arround to mentioning testicles, balls, gonads,spleens various patriarcal body parts that have nothing to do with the subject? I sence a conservative. In any case one set of "balls"is hardly enough for the whole intelligence community.
JBeee, if I want to read the San Francisco Chronicle, I'll read the San Fransisco Chronicle. You made no contribution to the thread. This is lame. Write something yourself.
Saddams rise to power is well documented and the US had nothing to do with it. I do not even think the CIA could be able to top the way he did it. He did it all by himself and did not even need our help to do it. As far as arms sales I would like for you to tell me what arms did we sell him? I know that we provided intell to him during the Iran-Iraq War but he had plenty of arms and they are all Soviet made. How many M-16's or M-60 tanks did you see littering the desert after the first Gulf War? How many F-4's or F-5's did we take out?
Not sure how this got off topic, but here is a response to your challenge:
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=815&blz=1
Also this wikipedia article claims the US helped Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War#Iraq.27s_armament_and_support
Although the US wasn't Iraq's biggest source of weapons and WMD technology, they were one of the few countries which continued to arm and support Iraq after it was known Iraq was using CW against civilians during the 1980's:
http://www.counterpunch.org/boles1010.html
It's god awful hard to believe that some delusionals on this forum continue to believe the CIA did not get Saddam into power. We have discussed this issue so many times and we have posted so many links on this issue, but people still insist on denying that truth.
Oh well.
Anyone interested in buying a bridge in Brooklyn??:roll:
Oh well.
Anyone interested in buying a bridge in Brooklyn??:roll: