Iran Nuclear Watch,  Politics

Iran Nuclear Watch: Ali Larijani – “Iran will follow its nuclear programme with patience.”

Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, speaks to reporters in March 2006. Larijani has vowed that the clerical regime would press on with uranium enrichment work despite mounting international pressure to freeze its sensitive nuclear activities.

AFP: Iran set to ignore UN demand for nuclear freeze

Iran’s top nuclear official has vowed that the clerical regime would press on with uranium enrichment work despite mounting international pressure to freeze its sensitive nuclear activities.

“Why should Iran suspend its research activities?” Ali Larijani, the head of the Supreme National Security Council, was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.

Enrichment can be extended from making reactor fuel to the production of warheads, but Larijani branded a UN Security Council demand for a suspension by April 28 as “not rational”.

“One should not follow such propositions… which are not rational,” he said, adding: “Iran will follow its nuclear programme with patience.”

Iran has been consistent and the United States has been patient.

But, with the announcement that Iran is accelerating uranium enrichment with new more technologically advanced centrifuges (P-2) United States and Israel’s parience is exhausted.

New York Times: Iran Claims Nuclear Steps in New Worry

Of all the claims that Iran made last week about its nuclear program, a one-sentence assertion by its president has provoked such surprise and concern among international nuclear inspectors they are planning to confront Tehran about it this week.

The assertion involves Iran’s claim that even while it begins to enrich small amounts of uranium, it is pursuing a far more sophisticated way of making atomic fuel that American officials and inspectors say could speed Iran’s path to developing a nuclear weapon.

Iran has consistently maintained that it abandoned work on this advanced technology, called the P-2 centrifuge, three years ago. Western analysts long suspected that Iran had a second, secret program — based on the black market offerings of the renegade Pakistani nuclear engineer Abdul Qadeer Khan — separate from the activity at its main nuclear facility at Natanz. But they had no proof.

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ASSociated Press: Iran Advances Could Speed Nuclear Process

Iran’s recent claim it was testing a more sophisticated type of nuclear enrichment centrifuge could mean the country has significantly sped up the process of making fuel for power plants or bombs, analysts familiar with the technology said Monday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told students Wednesday that the Islamic republic was testing the P-2 centrifuge — a more sophisticated type. A day earlier, he had trumpeted Iran’s success in enriching a small amount of uranium using a less-sophisticated type of centrifuge.

The president’s words were Iran’s first acknowledgment it is working with the faster P-2 and came after the country told the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency it had given up all such work three years ago. It is not clear if Iran had been doing work all along on the more-sophisticated model, or had recently restarted efforts.

A view of the uranium conversion site at Isfahan, Iran, is seen in this DigitalGlobe satellite image released with notations by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) on April 16, 2006. New satellite imagery indicate Iran has expanded its uranium conversion site at Isfahan and reinforced its Natanz underground uranium enrichment plant against possible military strikes, a U.S. think tank said. The ISIS said, in an email sent to news media with attached commercial satellite photos, that Iran has built a new tunnel entrance at Isfahan, where uranium is processed into a feed material for enrichment.
So, how do these bloviations from Ahmadinejad and his Mullah controlled minions affect the United States and Israel?

IT GIVES THEM COVER.

American will await the IAEA report to the United Nations Security Council and a vote for sanctions. If Russia or China vetoes the resolution the United States has the “COVER” of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program to rationalize a military operation.

Now, who in the international community can blame the United States for protecting its troops in Iraq when an Iranian nuclear weapon may be imminent, say, within three to five months?

Well. probably the Europeans – except the French.

Stay tuned……

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.


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