SUPPLEMENT TO OUR LAST BLOG!
August 25, 2006
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In our last Blog, issued early this morning, I include the following quote pertaining to Iranian progress in nuclear development.
The quote is from a DEBKAfile Report of August 24.
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A senior Iranian spokesman announced Wednesday night, Aug.
23 that his government was on the brink of a “dramatic” nuclear development. Some Tehran sources surmise an announcement will be made on significant Iranian advances in uranium enrichment following a breakthrough in activating P-2 centrifuges. This would constitute blatant defiance of the UN and an affront to the six powers and their offer of incentives for halting enrichment. Already, two days before Iran handed in its response to the offer, a Tehran official announced that the Arak heavy water plant would soon be operational.
Iran had thus set its feet squarely on two tracks for achieving the fuel for a nuclear weapon – enriched uranium and plutonium.
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I received the following article from Joe Bennett late this morning, and since it seems to refer to the article just quoted, I am sending it as likely pertaining to the same announcement.
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(1) Iran to announce nuclear ‘breakthrough’
http://www.hemscott.com/news/latest-news/item.do?newsId=35622458765974
TEHRAN (AFX) – Ir an will soon
announce an atomic breakthrough, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported today, a day after the country responded to an offer aimed at resolving a nuclear standoff.
‘This great scientific achievement is the fruit of a long-term research project … It will be formally announced by a top official,’ Mehr quoted an informed source as saying.
‘The announcement will highlight Iran’s mastery of different areas in nuclear science and will reinforce Iran’s position as a nuclear country,’ the report said.
Amid a fanfare of publicity, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced in April that Iran had successfully enriched uranium to 3.5 pct and mastered the nuclear fuel cycle.
The United States suspects Iran is using a civilian nuclear programme to secretly develop a
tomic weapons, but Tehran says it only wants to produce electricity.
The United Nations Security Council has given Iran until August 31 to halt enrichment and reprocessing activities, or face possible sanctions.
Iran on Tuesday responded to an offer from six world powers of negotiations on trade, technology and security benefits if Iran freezes its strategic nuclear fuel work.
newsdesk@afxnews.com afp/cmr
http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2006/08/iran-to-announce-huge-nuclear.html
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD126106
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