The Iran Nuclear Debacle

[Adak]

So we have a new Iranian President, who sounds much more cooperative than the last one. Today, Israel's Prime Minister warned us, in a speech at the U.N., that the old Iranian President was "a wolf in wolf's clothing", and the new Iranian President, was "a wolf in sheep's clothing". He plainly stated that Israel will NOT allow Iran to have nuclear weapons, because Iran has stated several times before, that it will wipe out the Jews.

Watching a short excerpt of Netanyahu's speech, it was plain to see that he was being very serious. This is not a trivial matter to him, or I suspect, to any Israeli.

The new President, Mr. Rouhani, was the former nuclear talks mediator for Iran. He's promised to bring a proposal to the mid October meeting with the P5+1 group. Those sanctions are really biting into the Iranian economy, it's clear. He wants them moderated and/or removed, in "months".

As reported recently however, Iran just added 1,000 high speed centrifuges to their Natchez Nuclear facility. Makes me wonder just how many centrifuges are needed to enrich uranium to a low (medical) grade? How many do they have running, in total?

It could be just 1,000, but it could be they kept a lot of the older one's running, as well. If so, they could have 20,000 centrifuges running around the clock. We just don't know - especially about what's going on at their secret nuclear facility built under a mountain. Weapons analysts suspect, that's where the nuclear research and construction of their nuclear weapons, is going on.

This is very troubling all the way around. There is no way I see this being resolved peacefully, short of having full inspections of all facilities by IAEA. The Israeli's will never allow nuclear enrichment, etc., to continue, without such inspections.

If they do decide to attack Iranian bases, they probably can't attack Iran without dragging us into it (either willingly or unwillingly).

Little funny:
Netanyahu: "They (Iran) want their yellowcake, and to eat it too."