Ahmadinejad Announces Iran Uranium Enrichment Milestone

It is obvious to me that I ran will succeed in going Nuclear if we do not act...

From FNC:

BIRJAND, Iran (AP) — Iran has achieved a landmark, with 3,000 centrifuges fully working in its controversial uranium enrichment program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Wednesday.

"We have now reached 3,000 machines," Ahmadinejad told thousands of Iranians gathered in Birjand, in eastern Iran, in a show of defiance of international demands to halt the program believed to be masking the country's nuclear arms efforts.[snip...]

Uranium gas, spun in linked centrifuges, can result in either low-enriched fuel suitable to generate power in a nuclear reactor, or the weapons-grade material that forms the fissile core of nuclear warheads.[snip...]

U.S. experts say 3,000 centrifuges are in theory enough to produce a nuclear weapon, perhaps as soon as within a year.

Iran says it plans to expand its enrichment program to up to 54,000 centrifuges at Natanz in central Iran — which would amount to the level of industrial-scale uranium enrichment.[snip...]

He also said he had bluntly refused a recent offer to negotiate with the United States over Iran's nuclear activities.

"I, as your representative, told those who brought the message that we didn't ask for talks ... If talks are to be held, it is the Iranian nation that has to set conditions, not the arrogant and the criminals," Ahmadinejad said.

"The world must know that this nation will not give up one iota of its nuclear rights ... if they think they can get concessions from this nation, they are badly mistaken," he concluded.

We have to decide if a nuclear Iran is something we can live with or not. If not we have to do more than talk to stop it. Remember, this is a country that said Israel would be wiped off the map, Israel can not withstand a nuclear strike, but Islamic countries can survive retaliation, holocaust is a myth, they wish to bring about the end times, Islamic flag will fly over every capital in the world, they will share nuclear technology with other muslim countries, and on and on it goes. So, think it is a good idea to say, don't worry about it?



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