Iran Ramps Up Uranium Enrichment

Announces Huge Enrichment Expansion In Defiance Of U.N. Demands

(CBS/AP)  Iran announced a dramatic expansion of uranium enrichment on Monday, saying it has begun operating 3,000 centrifuges — nearly 10 times the previously known number — in defiance of U.N. demands it halt the program or face increased sanctions.

U.S. experts say 3,000 centrifuges are in theory enough to produce a nuclear weapon, perhaps as soon as within a year. But they doubted Iran really had so many up and running, a difficult technical feat given the country's spotty success with a much smaller number.

Instead, the announcement may aim to increase support at home amid growing criticism of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and to boost Iran's hand with the West by presenting its program as established, said Michael Levi, a nonproliferation expert at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations.

"From a political perspective, it's more important to have (3,000 centrifuges) in place than to have them run properly," Levi told The Associated Press. "We have an unfortunate habit to take Iran at its word when they make scary announcements."

The White House and Europe criticized the announcement. "Iran continues to defy the international community and further isolate itself by expanding its nuclear program, rather than suspending uranium enrichment," said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council.

Iran is known to have had 328 centrifuges operating at its Natanz enrichment facility in central Iran. For months, it has been saying it plans to launch an expanded program of 3,000 devices, likely to be set up in a large underground area at Natanz to protect them from air strikes.

"I declare that as of today our dear country has joined the nuclear club of nations and can produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to a ceremony at Natanz marking the one-year anniversary of the first successful enrichment of uranium there.

His comments suggested Iran was able to produce enough enriched uranium to consistently fuel a nuclear reactor, but he did not announce the start of the 3,000 centrifuges.

"Iran's increase in centrifuges is ahead of its planned May target, but the announcement itself was expected and had been postponed during the captivity crisis," said CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk.

Asked by reporters at the ceremony if Iran has begun injecting uranium gas into 3,000 centrifuges for enrichment, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani replied, "Yes." He did not elaborate if all were working.

Later in the day, Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh told Iranian state television that the installation of the 3,000 centrifuges was not the end of the project.

"It's completely the reverse," he said. "This trend of installing machines will permanently continue until 50,000 centrifuges have been installed."

[toolmangler-2009]

"Iran poses no credible, unique threat to the Middle East or the world at large. With or without nukes, or Ahmadinejab."
"I offered the statement of fact that Ahmadinejab's claim that he wants to "wipe Israel off the map" is only referring to his desire for Israel to be decertified as a state (wiped off the map). Which would literally "wipe Israel off the map."
Posted by tuckerndfw at 04:58 PM : Apr 10, 2007

This is where you and I agree to disagree. Ahmadinejab may or may not want Jews eradicated but his bosses (the Clerics of Islam) do. It is my firm belief that Al Qaeda is after a nuclear bomb, (the more the better) and 'will' use them to attempt to destroy the Israel/Western society from the face of the Earth with the aim to replace it with their own brand of intolerance. It is their intention to force their conception of "Armegeddon" in other words force their God to step in and 'Annihilate'all non-muslim peoples.

[lars008-2009]

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

this one best fits muhammad and islam
Matthew 7:15 (Whole Chapter)
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Matthew 24:11 (Whole Chapter)
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Matthew 24:24 (Whole Chapter)
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Mark 13:22 (Whole Chapter)
For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
Luke 6:26 (Whole Chapter)
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Acts 13:6 (Whole Chapter)
And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:
2 Peter 2:1 (Whole Chapter)
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
1 John 4:1 (Whole Chapter)
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

[tuckerndfw]

The topic of this board is not Zionism, Israel, Christians, Jesus or anything related to the bible.

The topic is the alleged threat Iran poses to the world, specifically the Middle East.

On that basis, I offered the statement of fact that Ahmadinejab's claim that he wants to "wipe Israel off the map" is only referring to his desire for Israel to be decertified as a state (wiped off the map). Which would literally "wipe Israel off the map."

Ahmadinejab has never threatened Jews and poses no threat to Jews. Comparing him to Adolf Hitler is hysterical propanganda because Hitler was a Zionist and supported Israel.

Zionism is a subversive ideology to any nation other than Israel. Zionism relies primarily, if not exclusively, on lies and ignorance.

As demonstrated by the current lies being told about Ahmadinejab.

Iran poses no credible, unique threat to the Middle East or the world at large. With or without nukes, or Ahmadinejab.

[toolmangler-2009]

Since even the Romans acknowledge the existance of Jesus over 2000 years ago and Islam only goes back to mohammad 1400 years ago I prefer to go with the 'Original' not the 'johnny-come-lately' wannabe. My chosen Deity did something for me, He came and died for me and only 'asked' that I love him and take 'care' of the less fortunate not kill them if they didn't "kowtow".

[lars008-2009]

Where was Jesus born and to whom? An Arab? A Jew? A babylonian?
Posted by ToolMangler at 04:25 PM : Apr 10, 2007

yah.... lots of arab were named Jesus..........

[toolmangler-2009]

"It's unclear what you are attempting to prove, but according to Hebrew legends (no other sources) Israel existed from 1050 BCE to about 930 BCE, a period of 120 years."
Posted by tuckerndfw at 04:09 PM : Apr 10, 2007

Where was Jesus born and to whom? An Arab? A Jew? A babylonian?

[toolmangler-2009]

"I am an atheist and lifelong Texan."
"Amazing how the typical responses to facts about Zionism, Israel and Jews are insults."


Posted by tuckerndfw at 03:54 PM : Apr 10, 2007

Since I am not,I can forgive you for being an atheist.
As a Christian I was surprised by the vitriol of your heated response but not insulted. One persons view of "facts" are often colored by their perception of reality. Are you Aryian/White supremist? That might explain your responses, if not? I have no other explanation. Enlighten me!

[tuckerndfw]

Posted by ToolMangler at 04:00 PM : Apr 10, 2007

The original claim was that without Israel, Jews would not exist.

It's unclear what you are attempting to prove, but according to Hebrew legends (no other sources) Israel existed from 1050 BCE to about 930 BCE, a period of 120 years.

After which, Israel ceased to exist until 1948.

Demonstrating that the claim Israel's existence is related to, or essential to the existence of Jews is either an outright lie, or the person making the asssertion is ignorant.

Israel & Jews are totally unrelated in the existential sense. Neither is necessary for the other's existence.

[lars008-2009]

But for a Muslim to keep his word to an infidel at the expense of opportunities to expand Islamic power is the Islamic equivalent of a mortal sin.
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?6bdec278-6a71-4436-bc4d-29d1c54b0ad7

[toolmangler-2009]

C. 900 BCE: Israelite kingdom with capital at Jerusalem. First Temple built

586 BCE: destruction of First Temple, rebuilt in next century.

After 400 BCE: text of Jewish Bible ("Old Testament") reaches final form; much of it had originally been composed earlier.

70 CE: Romans destroy Second TempleBend of Jewish state until 1948. Jews remain in settlements throughout Roman Empire.

200-700 CE: "Talmudic period" orthodox Jewish law written down. Main center of Jewish life is in Babylonia (present-day Iraq)

[tuckerndfw]

My!! Such verbosity. Islamic roots seem to run deep and passionate in tuckerndfw.

Posted by ToolMangler at 03:23 PM : Apr 10, 2007

I am an atheist and lifelong Texan.

Amazing how the typical responses to facts about Zionism, Israel and Jews are insults.

What do Zionists have to fear from the truth?

Any organization (or nation) that relies primarily on lies for its existence should be opposed as a matter of principle.

[toolmangler-2009]

"Which begs the question, where did all those Jews go between about 900 BCE and 1948 CE?"
Posted by tuckerndfw at 01:43 PM : Apr 10, 2007


900-1492: Spain becomes main center of Jewish life.

1000-1770: "Jewish Middle Ages" in northern and central Europe.

1770-1870: AAge of Emancipation@: small Jewish communities in western Europe and North America gain legal and civil rights

1870-1933: Rapid changes in Jewish life

Quoted from: http://www.uky.edu/~popkin/323jews.htm

1933-now: You know the rest

[lars008-2009]

ISRAEL SPANKING MUDSCUM BUTTS 4 60YRS!!!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/blog/israel_palestine_cartoon.gif

silly little mudscums...............LOL

mudscums only brave_raping and killing little girls%u2026

with all that oil money & 1.3 billion MUDSCUM COWARDS, you still can't field an army

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

& they ponder why???...........LOL

Even though six million Jews were wiped out during the Holocaust, "today the Jews rule this world by proxy," he charged. "They get others to fight and die for them."

If a small number of Jews can do that, he implied, how much more should 1.3 billion Muslims be capable of achieving.

"One-point-three billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. There must be a way. And we can only find a way if we stop to think, to assess our weaknesses and our strength, to plan, to strategize and then to counter-attack."
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1225697.html

[toolmangler-2009]

My!! Such verbosity. Islamic roots seem to run deep and passionate in tuckerndfw. What does 1.5 billion Muslim practitioners have tto fear from a country the size of Rhode Island USA.

[lars008-2009]

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson, then U.S. ambassador to France, and John Adams, then American Ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Dey%u2019s ambassador to Britain, in an attempt to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress%u2019 vote of funding. To Congress, these two future presidents later reported the reasons for the Muslims%u2019 hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.


%u2026that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?6bdec278-6a71-4436-bc4d-29d1c54b0ad7

[lars008-2009]

Mohammed%u2019s ethnic cleansing

The Jews proved obdurate; their doctrine had no place in it for Arab prophets or messiahs. They took a malicious pleasure in exposing the ignorance of biblical history which Mohammed displayed in his stories about biblical persons, thus impugning his claim to have his stories by revelation. He retorted that his was the true and original version; if it was told otherwise in the books of the Jews it was because they had falsified their Scriptures. The attitude of the Jews was not only vexatious, but had in it a visible element of danger. In conjunction with the %u2018hypocrites,%u2019 as Mohammed calls the numerous class who outwardly professed Islam but had no real faith in it, they might at more than one crisis have made his position in Medina untenable. In the interludes in the conflict with the Meccans, Mohammed, on one pretext or another, fell upon the Jews, and did not stop till he had driven out all their tribes from Medina, and conquered their strongholds in the oasis of Khaibar.%u201D
http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/2005/08/mohammeds-ethnic-cleansing.html

[lars008-2009]

Mohammed%u2019s ethnic cleansing
%u201CAt Medina he expected the Jews to recognize the agreement between his teaching and theirs, and to own him as a prophet in the true succession, perhaps as the Messiah for whom they were waiting. The Moslems, when they prayed, turned their faces toward Jerusalem; the Day of Atonement was made a solemn fast for Moslems, the one great fast in the year. Mohammed did not see why if he acknowledged Moses and his Torah, the Jews should not acknowledge him and his Koran.
http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/2005/08/mohammeds-ethnic-cleansing.html

[tuckerndfw]

Zionist are a cult, Jews are a race, Israel is a nation comprised of Jews, Zionist and Muslims.

Posted by ToolMangler at 12:11 PM : Apr 10, 2007

Zionists are members of a political party formalized in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland after its platform was rejected by German Jews.

Zionists are not a cult, they are primarily concerned with raising money and influencing others to support their goals. Zionism is more likened to an organized criminal enterprise than a cult.

Zionists accomplished their goal of establishing a safe haven ("Israel") for international gangsters by collaborating with German Nazis and Soviet Stalinists, as well as US & UK political parties.

Zionists continue to collaborate with governments and organizations in all nations. Otherwise known as "playing both sides against the middle," or "divide and conquer."

Zionism is subvervise to any nation outside Israel.

Jews are not a race. A person is a Jew by membership of himself or his mother in the cult called Judaism. The majority of Jews are imposters from the former Soviet Union, Nazi Germany or their descendants.

Ethnic Jews and Palestinians have identical DNA. Most Israelis are not "ethnic Jews (Palestinians)".

We agree that Israel is a nation. Its existence as a nation is as irrelevant as the existence of any other nation.

[lars008-2009]

the war that fascist nazi Islamic muslims started and continues on yet today%u2026%u2026

The Truth about Islamic Crusades and Imperialism

Historical facts say that Islam has been imperialistic%u2014and would still like to be, if only for religious reasons. Many Muslim clerics, scholars, and activists, for example, would like to impose Islamic law around the world. Historical facts say that Islam, including Muhammad, launched their own Crusades against Christianity long before the European Crusades.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/11/the_truth_about_islamic_crusad.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/08/the_muslim_crusades.html

[lars008-2009]

I NO LONGER SUPPORT THE OCCUPATION

The real %u201Coccupation%u201D
1400 years of muslim occupation

muslims, whose home is Arabia, have occupied and brutalized for centuries.

During that time, non muslims have...

been murdered en masse
had their land stolen
their holy places destroyed and desecrated
been sold into slavery
their women raped
their children butchered

and the arabs have the nerve to whine about "occupation" when non muslims fight back

I NO LONGER SUPPORT MUSLIM OCCUPATION