More Uranium Reportedly Found in Iran

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By GEORGE JAHN

Associated Press Writer

 

 

VIENNA, Austria

 

 

The U.N. atomic agency found traces of highly enriched uranium at an Iranian site linked to the country's defense ministry, diplomats said Friday, adding to concerns that Tehran was hiding activities aimed at making nuclear arms.

 

The diplomats, who demanded anonymity in exchange for revealing the confidential information, said the findings were preliminary and still had to be confirmed through other lab tests. But they said the density of enrichment appeared to be close to or above the level used to make nuclear warheads

 

One of the diplomats told The Associated Press that the samples came from equipment that can be used in uranium-enriching centrifuges at a former research center at Lavizan-Shian. The center is believed to have been the repository of equipment bought by the Iranian military that could be used in a nuclear weapons program.

 

The United States alleges Iran had conducted high-explosive tests that could have a bearing on developing nuclear weapons at the site.

 

The State Department said in 2004 that Lavizan's buildings had been dismantled and topsoil had been removed in attempts to hide nuclear weapons-related experiments. The agency subsequently confirmed that the site had been razed.

 

In an April 28 report to the U.N. Security Council and the IAEA's 35- nation board of governors, agency head Mohamed ElBaradei said the agency took samples from some of the equipment of the former Physics Research Center at Lavizan-Shian. The diplomat said the evaluation of those samples revealed the traces in question.

 

Smoking Gun found?

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By GEORGE JAHN

Associated Press Writer

VIENNA, Austria

The U.N. atomic agency found traces of highly enriched uranium at an Iranian site linked to the country's defense ministry, diplomats said Friday, adding to concerns that Tehran was hiding activities aimed at making nuclear arms.

 

The diplomats, who demanded anonymity in exchange for revealing the confidential information, said the findings were preliminary and still had to be confirmed through other lab tests. But they said the density of enrichment appeared to be close to or above the level used to make nuclear warheads

 

One of the diplomats told The Associated Press that the samples came from equipment that can be used in uranium-enriching centrifuges at a former research center at Lavizan-Shian. The center is believed to have been the repository of equipment bought by the Iranian military that could be used in a nuclear weapons program.

 

The United States alleges Iran had conducted high-explosive tests that could have a bearing on developing nuclear weapons at the site.

 

The State Department said in 2004 that Lavizan's buildings had been dismantled and topsoil had been removed in attempts to hide nuclear weapons-related experiments. The agency subsequently confirmed that the site had been razed.

 

In an April 28 report to the U.N. Security Council and the IAEA's 35- nation board of governors, agency head Mohamed ElBaradei said the agency took samples from some of the equipment of the former Physics Research Center at Lavizan-Shian. The diplomat said the evaluation of those samples revealed the traces in question.

 

Smoking Gun found?

 

[Rusty Syringes 478]

Bad. Bad. Bad.

 

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agreed...it's a deadly game and the stakes could not be higher.

 

But we as a nation must deal with what the truth is...and not hide or run away. The sum of all fears is Ayatollahs with nukes.

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agreed...it's a deadly game and the stakes could not be higher.

 

But we as a nation must deal with what the truth is...and not hide or run away. The sum of all fears is Ayatollahs with nukes.

 

Or Giants Fan with a keyboard..

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I just hope someone besides us steps up and does something for a change.

 

The European non-action is just the kind of thing that allowed Hitler to overrun the place.

 

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I just hope someone besides us steps up and does something for a change.

 

The European non-action is just the kind of thing that allowed Hitler to overrun the place.

 

 

this will be key...

 

and having Russia/China acknowledge thru the UN the true threat of Ayatollahs with nukes... would possibly make Iran back down...but don't bet on that. Power politics between the Big 3 will likely preclude a unity of purpose re: this issue. As usual, we will be left to do the heavy lifting of freedom and security for all. It's not fair but hey...as President Kennedy so famously remarked, "life's not fair."

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Bad. Bad. Bad.

 

 

yah. god forbid anyone else but the US have nuclear technology. especially since we're the only country who has actually used it on another country... makes perfect sense

 

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yah. god forbid anyone else but the US have nuclear technology. especially since we're the only country who has actually used it on another country... makes perfect sense

 

 

I'd certainly agree with you in concept, and if Canada developed nukes I'd say noone should intervene. However, a country run by a whackjob religous zealot who has said a certain country should be erased from the face of the earth and who many think is more than capable of doing so given the means is not one I think should be allowed to have nukes.

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However, a country run by a whackjob religous zealot who has said a certain country should be erased from the face of the earth and who many think is more than capable of doing so given the means is not one I think should be allowed to have nukes.

 

Are you talking Iran or the U.S. run by John Kerry??

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Are you talking Iran or the U.S. run by John Kerry??

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Are you talking Iran or the U.S. run by John Kerry??

 

I think he's talking about George Bush

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yah. god forbid anyone else but the US have nuclear technology. especially since we're the only country who has actually used it on another country... makes perfect sense

 

 

Thanks for the heads up on your lack of knowledge

 

Why don't you show us that you arn't a complete tard & speak about WHY we used it.......

 

Start anywhere you like........maybe you could start with the projected number of casualties that an invasion of Mainland Japan would have resulted in (I'll help you out on this one, It would have been much higher for Allied troops than the total caused by the A-Bomb.........there is a multiplying factor for Japanese casualties based upon Allied casualties ) Side note: Without the bomb a full scale invasion of Mainland Japan WOULD HAVE BEEN REQUIED. Maybe you coud start with the "Rape of Nanking"????????? Maybe you could start with what happened as a result of Doolittle's Raid( I'll help yet again .....The American Museum of the Asiatic Holocaust WWII, in Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, shows how some Chinese are still suffering, 60 years later, from the biological and chemical warfare waged upon them by furious Japanese officials, in retaliation for their aid to Doolittle and his men.)

 

If you want to talk about WMD's, their use & responsability at least try to project a minor percentage of intellect

 

It's highly laughable to compair our use of the bomb in WWII & the current subject.

 

To sum it up: HTH, Rat's AZZ, Pow Veal & GFIAFP

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yah. god forbid anyone else but the US have nuclear technology. especially since we're the only country who has actually used it on another country... makes perfect sense

 

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Don't tell me you can't see the hypocracy. Who are we to dictate who can have nukes and cannot?