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Obama helps Iran with their enrichment problem

hypocritexposer

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Washington Post columnist David Ignatius passes on a report in Nucleonics Week that Iran's uranium enrichment may be stuck at 3.5% due to impurities.

The Iranians have not been able to remove low percentages of metallic fluorides from the UF-6 feed stock that they've laboriously enriched to 3.5% U-235 over the past five years. This has the potential to stop their enrichment program cold—at the level used for civilian nuclear power.

Thus, the Obama administration's offer to have the Iranians' impure 3.5% UF6 shipped to Russia where it can be enriched to 19.75% in that nation's modern, high-capacity radio-chemical plants may not be of merely incremental assistance to the raving anti-Semitic military junta that runs Iran. It may be essential for the continuation of their own independent bomb program (independent, that is, from whatever of North Korea's bomb program they're sharing).

In my October 15 column for TIA Daily, I noted that the Russians would return the highly enriched fuel back to Iran in the form of uranium oxide. It turns out the Russian-purified and Russian-enriched fuel is metallic fuel for Iran's little medical isotope reactor.

So not only will the 19.75% enriched uranium get Iran past a chemical stumbling block they haven't been able to resolve in their uranium bomb program; it will get them metallic fuel that can be converted back to highly purified uranium hexafluoride gas very, very easily.

Our president, his advisors, and his State Department have so deep a contempt for the United States and all of Western Civilization that they didn't look into what the Russian deal would give Iran before they offered to sign onto it. All they were interested in was whether or not it would be an effective gesture of "open-handed" American submissiveness that would calm Iran's military junta. Well, it was effective, alright. Obama's negotiating team has moved the doomsday clock for Israel forward from 11:45 to 11:58 pm in one single step. The Russian deal probably gave Iran's leaders the first good night's sleep they've had in years.

Thank you, Barack Obama, friend of dictators, enemy of America.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/10/enriching-irans-uranium-obama-gives-irans-nuke-program-a-helping-hand.html
 

hypocritexposer

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October 30, 2009
Iran Rejects Deal to Ship Out Uranium, Officials Report
By DAVID E. SANGER, STEVEN ERLANGER and ROBERT F. WORTH

This article is by David E. Sanger, Steven Erlanger and Robert F. Worth.

WASHINGTON — Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday that it would not accept a plan its negotiators agreed to last week to send its stockpile of uranium out of the country, according to diplomats in Europe and American officials briefed on Iran’s response.

The apparent rejection of the deal could unwind President Obama’s effort to buy time to resolve the nuclear standoff.

In public, neither the Iranians nor the watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, revealed the details of Iran’s objections, which came only hours after Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, insisted that “we are ready to cooperate” with the West.

But the European and American officials said that Iranian officials had refused to go along with the central feature of the draft agreement reached on Oct. 21 in Vienna: a provision that would have required the country to send about three-quarters of its current known stockpile of low-enriched uranium to Russia to be processed and returned for use in a reactor in Tehran used to make medical isotopes.

If Iran’s stated estimate of its stockpile of nuclear fuel is accurate, the deal that was negotiated in Vienna would leave the country with too little fuel to manufacture a weapon until the stockpile was replenished with additional fuel, which Iran is producing in violation of United Nations Security Council mandates.

American officials said they thought that the accord would give them a year or so to seek a broader nuclear agreement with Iran while defusing the possibility that Israel might try to attack Iran’s nuclear installations before Iran gained more fuel and expertise.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/world/middleeast/30nuke.html?_r=1&hp
 
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