Iran has announced plans to enrich its uranium stockpile from 3.5% to 20%.
However, the low enriched uranium is more than sufficient for a civilian power plant. While higher enriched uranium can be used in medical reactors – the stated purpose of the Iranian regime – there are serious concerns that the actual goal in higher enrichment is to make weapons of mass destruction.
There are a number of very worrisome issues with Iran’s nuclear program. First, there’s no need for the Iranians to enrich fuel for civilian energy purposes, since the fuel for the Busehr reactor is being provided by the Russians. Also, although the Iranian regime would say mastering nuclear enrichment may be a matter of national pride, it doesn’t make fiscal sense for the second largest oil producer in the Middle-East to be developing an extraordinarily expensive nuclear program. Also compounded by the brutal economic difficulties the country finds itself in.
Regarding the claims of medical research, the LA Times reported that “only France and Argentina have the facilities to turn the material into the fuel plates for the [medical] reactor.” Unless some agreement can be reached with these countries, Iran would be left with a stockpile of useless material.
While getting to 3.5% enrichment is a major technological feat, enriching to 20% “would be going most of the rest of the way to weapon-grade uranium," as David Albright, an official with Washington's Institute for Science and International Security, told the Associated Press. On top of this, it was reported months ago that Iran possessed enough uranium—if further enriched—to make a nuclear bomb.
Former CIA director Jim Woolsey said in a 2007 hearing before the House:
“The traces of highly-enriched (not just fuel grade) uranium, their deception, their heavy water plant and other indicators brand their program as one designed to develop nuclear weapons even in the absence of considering their rhetoric about destroying Israel and ending the world”
If Iran develops a nuclear bomb, it would be disastrous. The Iranian regime is the largest state-sponsor of terror around the world; imagine what this would mean if they could now arm their affiliates with WMDs. Iran itself possesses missiles that can reach into Europe and through much of the Middle East. If the country gets the bomb, you would also likely see an arms race emerge among other regimes in the Middle East, like Saudi Arabia who has also been active in exporting its extremist ideology globally.
This is not a question of a peaceful ally pursuing this technology in contravention of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. It is the suspect pursuit of this technology by a regime that is openly hostile to the West and what it stands for.
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this is hate website.
Iran is not a threat to world peace, America and Israel are, how 1- America is one of the first countries who used Wmd on other people and since ever have been involved in wars from Vietnam to Iraq, and also is hostile to many countries.
2- Israel armed with wmd is committing genocides in gaza, the question is has Iran been ever been involved either in using wmd or invading others and who is really threat to world peace?
This Iranian Leader has no fear of annihilation. He can even sacrifice his own people just to reach his goal of wiping out Israel or anyone who tries to stop him. That is his purpose in life. He's got no conscience. I feel for those Iranians who are being persecuted for disagreeing with this mad man. What is happening in the ME is exactly what the scriptures prophesied in the book of Ezekiel 38 and Revelation 20:8- the Gog & Magog. We are living in prophetic era.
If you talking about nuclear weapons, firstly you must destroy yours..
If Israel has nuclear weapon, Iran should be have it.
This is all prophecy coming true right before our eyes. America and the rest of the world is going to account for their sins and you can be sure of it.
We need to repent and get right with God before it is too late.
The King is going to reign in Jerusalem sooner than most of us think. Israel will come back to their rightful place and receive the promises of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Man has been trying to destroy the Jews as far back as it goes, but he has not been successful and he never will be because God, the Father, Jesus Christ, the Messiah and the Holy Spirit are on their side. They don't realize it yet, but they will serve the King of Kings in Jerusalem, soon. Maranatha, Our Lord comes. Even so come, Lord Jesus.
Amen
Yes, you ahve said the truth in your comment. Every single word of it.
The Holy Book tell us that THE HAND OF JHWH will come down against his enemies!WW3 is on! May G-D have mercy on us!
As several others have pointed out, Israel has never threatened other countries, their weapons are purely for defence! We know that Israel has deadly enemies surrounding her who only want her demise, which Iran`s Ahmedinejad has openly stated on many occasions to the whole world!
We`d better take this seriously, because look what happened in WW11 when another madman (Hitler) committed a terrible genocide on not just jews but any who did not fit his idealogy of a perfect race.
This madman and his cohorts in Iran also have an evil ideology to wipe out the jews, but you and I know he wouldn`t stop there and the whole world would be in danger!
We have to make up our mind to do something to stop this maniac before it`s too late!
yes you are right! Amadinthehead, as i like to call him, thinks he was born to usher in the madhi, (read: antichrist!) who comes with '7 years of peace' but who will kill all the jews and everyone who doesnt accept islam........(read: us!)
those idiots of you out there that think we INVADED IRAQ for it's oil? how blind and ignorate can you be.Where is the oil if we did ? we get none. we BUY our oil not conquer for it. If we let them fight over there ALL oil will stop being exported and the world economy will crash worse then it is now! YUP put on your blinders and die in ignorance as you get blown to bits by those in Iran and Saudi Arabia who hate us for being FREE.
dont fret......GOD is on the throne and HE intends to make all of Idumea "a burning pitch"......and that oil is going to go up in thick black smoke...see
Isaiah 34: 9
To traditional American military families this sounds like another Iraq propaganda story. To cause Americans to die in another way just to satisfy a bunch of murdering Zionist who profit of uneducated Americans. But Americans are becoming smarter than that. This is the same garbage V. Nam, bullshit for power, wealth and hate. All these politicians are owned by APAIC and in the end this will only hurt the Jews. We do not haft to destroy them they will destroy them selves as our boys and girls die in a propaganda proxy war for Israel for Zionist to profit from.
Go back home to Iran... if you don't live American, then don't pretend to be one... your kind of talk is the rhetoric we need to brand as dangerous.
The world does not need more N. Arms.
When the Middle East is nuclear free there will be a strong argument to stop Iran.
As long as Isreal has the Bomb and as long as it is never questined as to how come they are allowed to have it, the argument for Iran to stop is not valid.
Why stop Iran? Iran has a population of good people. It is only the insane and mentally diminished leaders of Iran that need to be stopped from hurting their people. As long as madmen run a country, it should not have access to WMD. Israel has made no agression calls against its neighbors, or suicide bombing on planes, nor used its children and women to protect them as they shoot their way into what they call their paradise... only insane people do those things and they should not be allowed to threaten the rest of the world with their mental disorder. The fact that Isreal has had the nukes doesn't present the problem, for she does not want to use them... for some reason they made them under the pretense of MAD... mutually agreeing with nuke nations that if one uses, all use and the world ends... never intending to destroy themselves... but when Iran talks of a nuke, it is because they believe in a god that requires it's creation to die for him... it is the plight of islam to die killing innocent people who are not islam, the GOD of Israel is not a god who requires its creation to die for him, but the GOD who came to earth to die for HIS creation in order to bring them to heaven.
we should and will have our chances . Take my promise and know that you all will pay
There is no need for nuclear power in Iran!
If they really want peacefull power, why not using solar power?
If they would use all the money they invested in nuclear technology for solar power, they would have more power and they could make money by exporting large amounts of electricity.
There is plenty of sunshine there!
If America can have weapons of mass destruction why can't Iran or any other country, the only country which has shown no restrain, is again America, in bombing Japan, I cant recollect any other country doing it.
If they can invade Iraq over oil what is to prevent America from invading Iran. Well if USa has a right to its views and the freedom to defend itself so do other countries.
YOU REALLY ARE IGNORANT HUH!
America bombed Japan in order to stop a war, not create one. Nor did we use the bomb to annihilate an entire culture, but to bring the barrage of death and destruction to an end. It was extreme, and I think most people probably did not understand/realize the devastation that was to result from this decision. However, WW2 came to an end. Otherwise continued destruction would have come to our shores. Devastation is not an American desire. We also went back in with humanitarian help. Do you think Iran would do the same thing? Their reason for wanting WMD is not for protection, nor for ending a current war against them. Their aim is to use WMD for the sole purpose of annihilation of the West and Israel. And as for the oil that we supposedly gained from the war in Iraq....we still pay for it and they still own it. I'm going out on a limb here, but my guess is that you are not American or if you are, you were one of the unfortunate people who fell through the cracks in the educational system. And if neither of these is the case, you are one of millions unwilling to learn the truth. We are in a state of chaos in our government because we (the collective millions) are unwilling to educate ourselves on the truth of history, current events, politics, and God. Until we do, we will continue to be dominated by those whose interests begin and end with themselves.
Your argument fails to point out that although we, and a few other countries possess Nuclear weapons, we are not threatening to blow anyone off the face of the earth, as Iran is saying about Israel. Also, we bombed Japan to end the war and save countless thousands of lives.
We have the bomb to defend ourselves against attack. We know that using it against another country that also has it, could result in a Nuclear war that would potentially end the world, as we know it.
Iran's leaders are all about controlling the world, as are all other Muslim countries. If we had the same crazy desire to rule the world, we could have done so long ago. Iran should not be allowed to have Nuclear weapons of mass destruction. I very strongly agree that doing so would bring about a Nuclear war that would end the world.
to all you muslims who believe one has the right to defend themselves, let me
point out that when Japan bombed our Pearl Harbour, we were at the peace table with them..............
One day a neighbor from a ways away came over to my neighborhood and killed over 2000 people on a Sunday morning while a majority of them were in church with their families... then, my neighborhood and adjoining neighborhoods came together and sought out who it was that did this awful thing, we found they were invading other neighbors and so we told them to stop and they said not ever! Then they said, prepare to die, for our next killing spree will be in all of your neighborhoods and so my neighborhood and the other neighborhood went to war and it didn't work, then finally we looked at our children getting close to the age to go to war and we had to say, "It stops here!" And reluctantly, we dropped a message on them that caused them to say, "Enough! ...we surrender!"
Isn't this the same story over again? Your answer to this true story is the equivalency of your sanity... you cannot make good evil... and visa-versa, cannot make evil good... if you do, you are insane and need to be denied the right to destroy innocent people!
I love your moral equivalency. yes America bombed Japan to end a war, they did not start. Iran's going nuclear would be potentially to try and wipe Israel off the face of the earth, as they have threatened, resulting in the start of WWIII.