UNSC Failure: Iran to Install 6000 More Centrifuges

[onedomino]

In yet another UNSC failure to place alongside Iraq, Darfur, North Korea, and a long list of others, Iran has decided to install 6000 more centrifuges at its underground Natanz nuke facility. Of course we all realize that the nuke lab is buried deep underground because it is dedicated to the peaceful development of nuclear power for electricity. We note that only benign radical terrorist nations with concern for the welfare of everyone have massive programs designed to enrich uranium to weapons grade.

Iran Says Installing 6,000 Enrichment Centrifuges
By Parisa Hafezi

complete article: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSHAF82818120080408

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has started to install 6,000 advanced centrifuges at its uranium enrichment facility, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, an expansion of nuclear work the West fears is aimed at building bombs.

Diplomats in Vienna told Reuters last week that Tehran was installing advanced enrichment centrifuges at the underground Natanz facility, accelerating activity that could give Iran the means to make atom bombs in the future if it chose to.

Iran, the world's fourth largest oil exporter, says it wants nuclear technology to generate electricity.

"President Ahmadinejad has announced the start of the installation of 6,000 new centrifuges at Natanz," state radio and television reported.

"Today the process of installing 6,000 advanced centrifuges started ... I will give further details about them tonight," the students news agency ISNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying at Natanz in central Iran, surrounded by anti-aircraft guns.

The president will give a speech later on Tuesday in a ceremony in Tehran to celebrate Iran's National Day of Nuclear Technology.

"I promise to give more good news," state television quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. He did not elaborate.

Ahmadinejad's announcement is a new snub to the U.N. Security Council which since late 2006 has imposed three rounds of sanctions on Tehran for refusing to halt enrichment work.

 

[José]

Onedomino

You need to overcome your obsession with Iran, in particular, and wake up to the fact that the NPT is dead and buried in the Middle East.

Egypt and Syria are also actively developing nuclear programs.

This will go down in History as the most underreported news in the beginning of the XXI century.

Can anyone blame these nations for trying to develop nukes after the invasion and occupation of Iraq?

If you don't want to see your country invaded, occupied and turned into killing fields you'd better point a few nuclear warheads at New York and Washington D.C.

 

[Swamp Fox]

Yet another reason to kick the UN out of the US and save ourselves some money.

 

[José]

I couldn't agree more re the thread title: UN... failure

The UN's inability to guarantee the respect for the national sovereignty of countries with small/weak/poorly trained armies is a well known fact.

UNFORTUNATELY FOR OUR PLANET AND SPECIES, only nukes can do the job.

 

[akiboy]

Onedomino

You need to overcome your obsession with Iran, in particular, and wake up to the fact that the NPT is dead and buried in the Middle East.

Egypt and Syria are also actively developing nuclear programs.

This will go down in History as the most underreported news in the beginning of the XXI century.

Can anyone blame these nations for trying to develop nukes after the invasion and occupation of Iraq?

If you don't want to see your country invaded, occupied and turned into killing fields you'd better point a few nuclear warheads at New York and Washington D.C.

Are you crazy? If Iran gets a nuke do you know what that means ? I live in the Middle East so you dont act like a smartass..And puhleez...Iran isnt making nukes in response to the U.S "invasion" of Iraq..They just want to deliver a blow to the U.S and Israel in the Mid East..

 

[Paulie]

Of course we all realize that the nuke lab is buried deep underground because it is dedicated to the peaceful development of nuclear power for electricity.

Yeah, I mean, it's got nothing to do with the fact that countries like the US would love to be able to conventionally blow it to smithereens or anything. Those brazen bastards!

 

[The_Hammer]

Onedomino

You need to overcome your obsession with Iran, in particular, and wake up to the fact that the NPT is dead and buried in the Middle East.

Egypt and Syria are also actively developing nuclear programs.

This will go down in History as the most underreported news in the beginning of the XXI century.

Can anyone blame these nations for trying to develop nukes after the invasion and occupation of Iraq?

If you don't want to see your country invaded, occupied and turned into killing fields you'd better point a few nuclear warheads at New York and Washington D.C.

Even if they had nukes the only country they could reasonably hit would be Israel, maybe European targets. They'd need high powered missles to reach the US.

Not to mention they'd need a lot of them too. We do have a limited missle defense shield. The only nations that can hit the USA are Russia and China. Russia won't/can't because half their missles don't work and because of our missle defense. They'd get the US good. China has too few to hurt the US. They'd have to expend their whole arsenal to get maybe one major city.

Meanwhile the USA which has the largest strategic nuclear arsenal on the planet glasses the whole of Russia and China and has a few more left over to say "Who wants some?". There would even be enough gov't and infrastructure for the US to survive. China and Russia lack the applicable missle defense to effectively defend themselves.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Even if they had nukes the only country they could reasonably hit would be Israel, maybe European targets. They'd need high powered missles to reach the US.

Or, they could load it into a container and detonate it in Long Beach harbor.

Not to mention they'd need a lot of them too

One nuke in LA would cause more than enough damage

 

[Swamp Fox]

One nuke anywhere in the United States would be enough.

 

[Zoomie1980]

I couldn't agree more re the thread title: UN... failure

The UN's inability to guarantee the respect for the national sovereignty of countries with small/weak/poorly trained armies is a well known fact.

UNFORTUNATELY FOR OUR PLANET AND SPECIES, only nukes can do the job.

We have more than adequate defense against any nuclear weapon targeted against us from anywhere other than Russia. Our current ABM defense employing most the SM-1 can counter up to 100 MIRV'd ICBMs, maybe more. The only country on earth capable of launching an attack of that size is still Russia, and it is becoming increasingly doubtful that even they can still muster that size of an attack.

What concerns us is the ability of Iran to take out oil facilities in Saudi Arabia and the other Persian Gulf states, using non-ballistic technologies.

 

[José]

Originally posted by Zoomie1980
We have more than adequate defense against any nuclear weapon targeted against us from anywhere other than Russia. Our current ABM defense employing most the SM-1 can counter up to 100 MIRV'd ICBMs, maybe more. The only country on earth capable of launching an attack of that size is still Russia, and it is becoming increasingly doubtful that even they can still muster that size of an attack.
What concerns us is the ability of Iran to take out oil facilities in Saudi Arabia and the other Persian Gulf states, using non-ballistic technologies.

This is patriotic insanity to the tenth power, Zoomie.

The suggestion that those primitive prototypes can protect America against a chinese nuclear strike is totally delusional.

China can obliterate the entire West Coast in 30 minutes.

This is more than enough for chinese nukes to serve their purpose: to guarantee the respect for China’s national sovereignty.

China is 100% protected against any foreign aggression and the rest of the world would do well to follow its example.

PS:

L.A.’s nuclear destruction would be a plus, or rather, a gift to mankind.

Chinese movies are a lot better than the crap Hollywood shoves down our throats.

 

[Gunny]

This is patriotic insanity to the tenth power, Zoomie.

The suggestion that those primitive prototypes can protect America against a chinese nuclear strike is totally delusional.

China can obliterate the entire West Coast in 30 minutes.

This is more than enough for chinese nukes to serve their purpose: to guarantee the respect for China’s national sovereignty.

China is 100% protected against any foreign aggression and the rest of the world would do well to follow its example.

PS:

L.A.’s nuclear destruction would be a plus, or rather, a gift to mankind.

Chinese movies are a lot better than the crap Hollywood shoves down our throats.

Y'know, I rarely find myself asking this but ... have you considered just getting the fuck out of this country? You really should. You don't deserve to live here.

You bitch, bitch bitch about the US while it's milk-n-honey is dripping off your chin.

 

[waltky]

Iran Has 18,000 Uranium Centrifuges...

Atomic official says Iran has 18,000 uranium centrifuges
17.08.2013 > Iran has about 18,000 uranium centrifuges, the outgoing head of the country's atomic agency has said. Officials claim that Iran enriches uranium to 5 and 20 percent for peaceful purposes.

Iran's outgoing nuclear chief has said that the country has a total of 18,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment - a potential pathway to making nuclear weapons. The previous public announcement had come in a full third lower. "At the beginning of the month of Mordad (from July 23) we had 17,000 first generation centrifuges, of which more than 10,000 are active and 7,000 ready to start work," said Fereidoun Abbasi, quoted by ISNA news agency. "Some 1,000 second generation centrifuges have also been installed and are ready to start work," he said at the handover ceremony for his role to former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.

In May, the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran had installed 17,600 centrifuges, including 16,590 first generation and 1,000 second generation. Iranian officials say the country needs the higher level for a medical research reactor in the capital, Tehran. However, other countries, including Israel - widely considered the Middle East's only nuclear power - suspect that Iran seeks to develop atomic weapons under the guise of a civilian nuclear program.

Taking over for Abbasi, Salehi said that the country's newly elected president would "be personally responsible for the nuclear issue." President Hassan Rouhani said last week that Iran could hold "serious" talks on the nuclear issue without delay, but that his country also had an inalienable right to an atomic program. During his role as Iran's chief nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005, Rouhani had accepted the suspension of the country's enrichment program.

Atomic official says Iran has 18,000 uranium centrifuges | News | DW.DE | 17.08.2013

 

[Trajan]

but theres a 'moderate' in office now...

 

[Ropey]

but theres a 'moderate' in office now...

And an immoderate in power.

 

[Vikrant]

Iran is dangerously close to building nukes. Once they have nukes then it is all over.

 

[rhodescholar]

Originally posted by Zoomie1980
We have more than adequate defense against any nuclear weapon targeted against us from anywhere other than Russia. Our current ABM defense employing most the SM-1 can counter up to 100 MIRV'd ICBMs, maybe more. The only country on earth capable of launching an attack of that size is still Russia, and it is becoming increasingly doubtful that even they can still muster that size of an attack.
What concerns us is the ability of Iran to take out oil facilities in Saudi Arabia and the other Persian Gulf states, using non-ballistic technologies.

This is patriotic insanity to the tenth power, Zoomie.

The suggestion that those primitive prototypes can protect America against a chinese nuclear strike is totally delusional.

China can obliterate the entire West Coast in 30 minutes.

This is more than enough for chinese nukes to serve their purpose: to guarantee the respect for China’s national sovereignty.

China is 100% protected against any foreign aggression and the rest of the world would do well to follow its example.

PS:

L.A.’s nuclear destruction would be a plus, or rather, a gift to mankind.

Chinese movies are a lot better than the crap Hollywood shoves down our throats

I was going to respond to your idiocy, but it is clear you are mentally ill, and fucking incredibly stupid, so there's no point.