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MMC
01-09-2012, 05:40 PM
VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear agency on Monday confirmed that Iran has begun enriching uranium at an underground bunker to a level that can be upgraded more quickly for use in a nuclear weapon than the nation's main enriched stockpile.

Comment from the International Atomic Energy Agency came after diplomats said that centrifuges at the Fordo site near Iran's holy city of Qom are churning out uranium enriched to 20 percent. That level is higher than the 3.5 percent being made at Iran's main enrichment plant and can be turned into fissile warhead material faster and with less work.

"The IAEA can confirm that Iran has started the production of uranium enriched up to 20 percent ... in the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant," said an agency statement, which used the alternate spelling for the site.

"When you enrich to 20 percent, there is no possible reason for that if you're talking about a peaceful program," she told reporters. "So it generally tends to indicate that you are enriching to a level that takes you to a different kind of nuclear program."

About 8,000 centrifuges are operating at Natanz, where five years of enrichment have turned out enough material for several nuclear warheads.

Adding to Iran-U.S. tensions, Iran's state radio reported Monday that a Tehran court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death.

Iran charges that as a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati received special training and served at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before heading to Iran for his alleged intelligence mission. The radio report did not say when the verdict was issued. Under Iranian law, Hekmati, a dual U.S.-Iranian national has 20 days to appeal. His father, a professor at a community college in Flint, Michigan, has said his son is not a CIA spy and was visiting his grandmothers in Iran when he was arrested.....snip~

http://news.yahoo.com/un-agency-confirms-iran-nuke-bunker-200449341.html
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Looks Like things just have been ratcheted up some more. Plus now Iran throws another wrinkle into the mix. 20% eh. Note the comment on that they already have enough material for several warheads. If this is the case then they already have them. Does this mean the ball is back in Israel and our Court?

MMC
01-09-2012, 06:27 PM
We have responded back to Iran stating that we Condemn the death sentence.....is this really starting to go where soon neither one will be able to back off? Israel again reinterates that a Military Option is not off the table. Yet what good is if they already have several warheads now?

Conley
01-09-2012, 07:04 PM
How did the UN get this intel about 20% enrichment? It must be a new development (and a concerning one) since their report last year.

MMC
01-10-2012, 12:12 AM
They must be able to monitor somehow. As the site they said was churning out enriched uranium at Qom. What got me is the statement on that they have had enough to make several from the site in Natanz. Which means the IAEA has known this all along.

Also this comes right in connection with The EU deciding to impose the Oil Sanctions on Iran. Which is going to affect several of those European Countries.

waltky
08-29-2016, 11:12 PM
Well duh, what better way to advertise where yer nuke plant is?...
:rollseyes:
Iran deploys S-300 missile defense system around nuclear site
Monday 29th August, 2016 - Iran has deployed the Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system around its Fordow underground uranium enrichment facility, Iranian state media reported on Monday, August 29, according to Reuters.


"Our main priority is to protect Iran's nuclear facilities under any circumstances," Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC) air defense force told state Iranian TV. Iran and the six major powers reached a landmark nuclear deal in 2015 aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Tehran over its disputed nuclear work.


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Enrichment of uranium at the Fordow facility, around 100 km south of Tehran, has stopped since the implementation of the nuclear deal in January. Russia, under pressure from the West, in 2010 canceled a contract to deliver S-300s to Iran. But Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted that self-imposed ban in April 2015, after an interim deal was reached between Iran and the six powers.

In August, Iran said that Russia had delivered main parts of the system to the country, adding that the missile system would be completely delivered by the end of 2016. The IRGC's Esmaili did not say whether the system was operational, but added: "Today, Iran's sky is one of the most secure in the Middle East".

http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/247165823/iran-deploys-s-300-missile-defense-system-around-nuclear-site