Iran approves building 10 nuclear sites

[Stealthed]

What are we to do with Iran?

Military action is getting warmer as time goes on... at least from my point of view. I guess a KEY question is whether Obama is willing if it comes down to it, to confront Iran militarily?



http://www.komonews.com/news/national/78087842.html

Iran approves building 10 nuclear sites

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The Iranian government approved a plan Sunday to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion in defiance of U.N. demands it halt the program.

The decision comes only two days after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency censured Iran, demanding it immediately stop building a newly revealed enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom and freeze all uranium enrichment activities.

A Cabinet meeting headed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to begin building five uranium enrichment sites that have already been studied and propose five other locations for future construction within two months.

In Vienna, spokeswoman Gillian Tudor said the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency would have no comment. But the announcement is likely to stoke already high tensions between Iran and the West over its controversial nuclear activities.

Iran has one industrial-scale uranium enrichment plant near Natanz, in central Iran. The IAEA said earlier this month that about 8,600 centrifuges had been set up in Natanz, but only about 4,000 were enriching uranium. The facility will eventually house 54,000 centrifuges.

The newly revealed enrichment site, known as Fordo, is a small scale site that will house nearly 3,000 centrifuges.

IRNA said the Cabinet ordered that the 10 new sites have a scale equal to Natanz's.

In the enrichment process, uranium gas is spun in centrifuges to purify it. Enriched to a low degree, the result is fuel for a nuclear reactor - but highly enriched uranium can be used to build a warhead. The United States and its allies accuse Iran of secretly seeking to develop a bomb, a claim denied by Iran, which says it seeks only to generate electricity.

Under Iranian law, Iran's nuclear agency has been tasked with providing 20,000 megawatts of electricity through nuclear power plants during in the next 20 years. IRNA said the country needs to build enrichment facilities to produce nuclear fuel for its future power plants.

Ahmadinejad told the Cabinet that Iran will need to install 500,000 centrifuges throughout the planned enrichment facilities to produce between 250 to 300 tons of fuel annually.

[kimberly]

Originally Posted by Stealthed

What are we to do with Iran?

Military action is getting warmer as time goes on... at least from my point of view. I guess a KEY question is whether Obama is willing if it comes down to it, to confront Iran militarily?

IMO They timed it to put Obie on the spot.

[Stealthed]

Indeed. I guess to see if he's got the "balls" so to speak. I for one don't enjoy being at war and can only guess a war with Iran would make Iraq and Afghanistan look like small potatoes. (No disrespect meant, just making a speculative comparison). But then again, sometimes you have to do what has to be done.

[Paslode]

if war with Iran were to happen, I think there is a real possibility that the US Jihadi's will come out of the closet shortly there after.

[The Reaper]

Originally Posted by Paslode

if war with Iran were to happen, I think there is a real possibility that the US Jihadi's will come out of the closet shortly there after.

Not sure that is probable, but I am also not certain that would be an altogether bad thing.

Might shock us into serious action.

TR

[Stealthed]

Originally Posted by Paslode

if war with Iran were to happen, I think there is a real possibility that the US Jihadi's will come out of the closet shortly there after.

If that would be the case, then dust off your guns and have at it.

At the rate were going with Iran, they'll have nukes in no time. There's only so many sanctions you can put on a country. They've blocked IAEA inspectors and have ramped up nuclear facilitation production. If that act alone doesn't represent a big fat middle finger to the rest of the world I don't know what does. Get to work CIA SAD...

[PedOncoDoc]

Originally Posted by Stealthed

At the rate were going with Iran, they'll have nukes in no time. There's only so many sanctions you can put on a country. They've blocked IAEA inspectors and have ramped up nuclear facilitation production.

Anyone else see the parallels between this and the call for more gun laws to stop criminals stateside?

Sanctions only work for those who are willing to obey them - the use of force, on the other hand, can be escalated until the malingering party is either destroyed or chooses to fall in (even if only for a short while....)

[Red Flag 1]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

Not sure that is probable, but I am also not certain that would be an altogether bad thing.

Might shock us into serious action.

TR

I think a point to ponder would be, "what will the US response be when Israel goes after Iran"?

My $.02.

RF 1

[Stealthed]

I think a point to ponder would be, "what will the US response be when Israel goes after Iran"?

Probably a more likely scenario me thinks.

[Basenshukai]

"Iran approves building 10 nuclear sites"

Why not? It will be years before anyone does anything serious about it. And, by then, about four would have been built.

[Stealthed]

I guess the Iranians are smart in that sense...