Iran has 'enough material' to make nuclear bomb
Iran has enough fissile material to build a nuclear bomb, top US military officer Admiral Mike Mullen said on Sunday, marking the first time the United States has made such an assessment.
"We think they do, quite frankly," Mullen said when asked if Iran had enough nuclear material to manufacture an atomic bomb.
"And Iran having a nuclear weapon, I've believed for a long time, is a very,
More..very bad outcome for the region and for the world," said Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
While the United States and European allies have expressed concern previously that Iran could soon have enough enriched uranium to manufacture a nuclear weapon, Mullen's more definitive comments went a step further.
The admiral's remarks came in the wake of a report by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that said Tehran had made strides in its uranium enrichment work.
Some analysts have said Iran may soon have sufficient material to make a nuclear bomb.
According to the IAEA, Tehran now has 1,010 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride from its enrichment activities at a plant at Natanz.
That "is sufficient for a nuclear weapons breakout capability," according to David Albright, president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security and an expert on Iran's nuclear program.
A breakout capability is when there is sufficient low-enriched uranium, which is used for nuclear fuel, to turn into highly-enriched uranium needed for nuclear weapons.
Iran denies its atomic work is designed to build a nuclear arsenal and says it wants to develop nuclear technology to generate electricity for a growing population.
Source France 24.
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If you have an ape or some kind of Neanderthal living in a cave you can arm the ape with a machine gun instead of the usual stick and stones. The ape will possibly subdue the other apes in the neighborhood (unless it shoots itself accidentally) but it will remain an ape with a machine gun. There is a reason why an army of apes with machine guns would be ultimately unsuccessful.
The armed forces of Iran remain essentially WWI forces circa 1914 albeit with certain modern weaponry thrown in.
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "MonsterZero_Jr" (R)
Don't worry Iran
Obama doesn't care.
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "JihadKiller1s1k" (R)
so did iraq before we invaded em ,fony propaganda bullshit
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "resistorinwales" (R)
...According to the IAEA, Tehran now has 1,010 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride from its enrichment activities...
And they have no ability to refine it into weapons grade.
I'll eat my radioactive words if they are able to develop a process in secret that is more advanced than, say SILEX.
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "maelstrom316" (R)
According to Islam's teaching, Islamic countries are not allowed to possess nuclear weapons because it's against the religion.
I guess that turned out to be a lie like everything else in Islam is a lie, as evidenced by the events of the last several years that we have seen.
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "MonsterZero_Jr" (R)
one more war without evidence?
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "lasrever" Premium
There will be no war with Iran. The Americans will stand back and allow Iran's economy to rot. Iran already has an inflation rate of 30% which puts it in the same league as blacks in Africa. Let them finish themselves off by building a nuclear weapons program. For a country like Iran, that will probably consume 40% or more of their GDP.
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "MonsterZero_Jr" (R)
There will be no war with Iran. The Americans will stand back and allow Iran's economy to rot. Iran already has an inflation rate of 30% which puts it in the same league as blacks in Africa. Let them finish themselves off by building a nuclear weapons program. For a country like Iran, that will probably consume 40% or more of their GDP.
I don't know, but MZ_Jr, you're so full of hate.
You sound like having an orgasm when wishing and expecting bad things for Iranians in future.
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "wrano" (R)
There will be no war with Iran. The Americans will stand back and allow Iran's economy to rot. Iran already has an inflation rate of 30% which puts it in the same league as blacks in Africa. Let them finish themselves off by building a nuclear weapons program. For a country like Iran, that will probably consume 40% or more of their GDP.
I don't know, but MZ_Jr, you're so full of hate.
You sound like having an orgasm when wishing and expecting bad things for Iranians in future.
he is just angry because the west has been ******* polish people(read history) for more than 60y without having to fire a bullit and they cant do the same to iranians,at least not without a full confrontation and heavy price
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "molaomar" (R)
yeah its got that familiar stink.
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "gandalf11" (R)
There will be no war with Iran. The Americans will stand back and allow Iran's economy to rot. Iran already has an inflation rate of 30% which puts it in the same league as blacks in Africa. Let them finish themselves off by building a nuclear weapons program. For a country like Iran, that will probably consume 40% or more of their GDP.
I don't know, but MZ_Jr, you're so full of hate.
You sound like having an orgasm when wishing and expecting bad things for Iranians in future.
he is just angry because the west has been ******* polish people(read history) for more than 60y without having to fire a bullit and they cant do the same to iranians,at least not without a full confrontation and heavy price
Killed and betrayed, both.
("Phony War" @ the start of the WW2 etc.)
Funny thing is that those same "Western Imperial Powers" did even worse things to us from ex-Yugoslavia, but we're not so full of hate ...
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "wrano" (R)
There will be no war with Iran. The Americans will stand back and allow Iran's economy to rot. Iran already has an inflation rate of 30% which puts it in the same league as blacks in Africa. Let them finish themselves off by building a nuclear weapons program. For a country like Iran, that will probably consume 40% or more of their GDP.
I don't know, but MZ_Jr, you're so full of hate.
You sound like having an orgasm when wishing and expecting bad things for Iranians in future.
he is just angry because the west has been ******* polish people(read history) for more than 60y without having to fire a bullit and they cant do the same to iranians,at least not without a full confrontation and heavy price
Killed and betrayed, both.
("Phony War" @ the start of the WW2 etc.)
Funny thing is that those same "Western Imperial Powers" did even worse things to us from ex-Yugoslavia, but we're not so full of hate ...
even if you are full of hate wich you have the right to,at least hate the bastards who did it to you not the brave people who stand up against those bastards.
funny thing is all the promises the west gave to polish people before fall of communist and now after 20y what promises come true?except poverty,humiliation,slave labor and prostitution for both their boys and girls.
yet this polish idiot who has been avoiding me keeps trashing iran and not his american masters who really have ****ed them
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "molaomar" (R)
good luck this time lol
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "Sunderer" (R)
There will be no war with Iran. The Americans will stand back and allow Iran's economy to rot. Iran already has an inflation rate of 30% which puts it in the same league as blacks in Africa. Let them finish themselves off by building a nuclear weapons program. For a country like Iran, that will probably consume 40% or more of their GDP.
I don't know, but MZ_Jr, you're so full of hate.
You sound like having an orgasm when wishing and expecting bad things for Iranians in future.
he is just angry because the west has been ******* polish people(read history) for more than 60y without having to fire a bullit and they cant do the same to iranians,at least not without a full confrontation and heavy price
Killed and betrayed, both.
("Phony War" @ the start of the WW2 etc.)
Funny thing is that those same "Western Imperial Powers" did even worse things to us from ex-Yugoslavia, but we're not so full of hate ...
even if you are full of hate wich you have the right to,at least hate the bastards who did it to you not the brave people who stand up against those bastards.
funny thing is all the promises the west gave to polish people before fall of communist and now after 20y what promises come true?except poverty,humiliation,slave labor and prostitution for both their boys and girls.
yet this polish idiot who has been avoiding me keeps trashing iran and not his american masters who really have ****ed them
probably because he's american under a polish flag also a troll
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "Sunderer" (R)
There will be no war with Iran. The Americans will stand back and allow Iran's economy to rot. Iran already has an inflation rate of 30% which puts it in the same league as blacks in Africa. Let them finish themselves off by building a nuclear weapons program. For a country like Iran, that will probably consume 40% or more of their GDP.
I don't know, but MZ_Jr, you're so full of hate.
You sound like having an orgasm when wishing and expecting bad things for Iranians in future.
he is just angry because the west has been ******* polish people(read history) for more than 60y without having to fire a bullit and they cant do the same to iranians,at least not without a full confrontation and heavy price
Killed and betrayed, both.
("Phony War" @ the start of the WW2 etc.)
Funny thing is that those same "Western Imperial Powers" did even worse things to us from ex-Yugoslavia, but we're not so full of hate ...
even if you are full of hate wich you have the right to,at least hate the bastards who did it to you not the brave people who stand up against those bastards.
funny thing is all the promises the west gave to polish people before fall of communist and now after 20y what promises come true?except poverty,humiliation,slave labor and prostitution for both their boys and girls.
yet this polish idiot who has been avoiding me keeps trashing iran and not his american masters who really have ****ed them
Exactly on spot, molaomar!
Yes, trash those who did the shit and evil to you, not those who have nothing to do with it ...
I personally, am very sad to see Poles (and other people, not regarding the nationality or race) working as slaves in agricultural fields in central and southern Italy etc.
Btw, do you know that the English word slave draws the root from Slav/Slavic ...
Posted Mar-1-2009 by "wrano" (R)