TWO CONFLICTING REPORTS VIA THE SEAT OF SATAN:
(1) AHMADINEJAD STATES EVERYTHING IS PEACHY KEEN
(2) INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS SOURCES SAYS IT IS NOT
February 11, 2010
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Two Excerpts from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
February 11, 2010
Excerpt 1 from New York Times
Iran Claims New Success in Uranium Enrichment
Alan Cowell and Michael Slackman
President Ahmadinejad was quoted Thursday as saying his country had produced a first batch of uranium enriched to a level of 20%, taunting the West by declaring that if Tehran wanted to build a nuclear bomb, it would say so.
Iran, he said, repeating an earlier assertion, was now “a nuclear state.” “I want to announce with a loud voice here that the first package of 20% fuel was produced and provided to the scientists,” he said. “In the near future we will treble its production.” He continued: “We have the capability to enrich uranium more than 20% or 80%.” (New York Times)
Excerpt 2 from Washington Post
Report: Technical Setbacks Cause Iran to Falter in Push to Enrich Uranium
Joby Warrick and Glenn Kessler
Iran is experiencing surprising setbacks in its efforts to enrich uranium, according to new assessments that suggest that equipment failures and other difficulties could undermine that nation’s plans for dramatically scaling up its nuclear program.
A new assessment, based on three years of internal data from UN nuclear inspections, suggests that Iran’s mechanical woes are deeper than previously known. At least through the end of 2009, the Natanz plant appears to have performed so poorly that sabotage cannot be ruled out as an explanation, according to a draft study by David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS).
The ISIS study showed that more than half of the Natanz plant’s 8,700 uranium-enriching centrifuges were idle at the end of last year and that the number of working machines had steadily dropped – from 5,000 in May to just over 3,900 in November.
Moreover, output from the nominally functioning machines was about half of what
was expected.
A separate analysis by the Federation of American Scientists also describes Iran’s flagging performance.
Ivan Oelrich, vice president of the federation’s Strategic Security Program, said, “They are really struggling to reproduce what is literally half-century-old European technology and doing a really bad job of it.”
(Washington Post)
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