Boost in Iran's Capacity To Enrich Uranium Noted

ISLAMIC REGIME THUGS INSIST ON TAKING IRAN AND IRANIANS OFF THE EDGE AND INTO MORE CHAOS,MAYHEM AND ISOLATION.
THESE BASTARDS WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO STAY IN POWER, INCLUDING THEIR OWN FINAL DEMISE.

Iran has doubled its capacity to enrich uranium in the past two months but remains far from the technological know-how the Bush administration fears and the capabilities that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently claimed, according to an official letter written by a senior U.N. nuclear inspector yesterday.

The letter to Iranian officials from Olli Heinonen, a deputy director general at the International Atomic Energy Agency, confirmed that, in a visit earlier this week, inspectors saw eight separate lines -- or "cascades" -- with 164 centrifuges each operating at a nuclear enrichment facility in the town of Natanz and that "some uranium is being fed into those cascades." A copy of the letter was made available to The Washington Post.

In February, inspectors reported seeing four such cascades operating at the same site, but none was enriching uranium. At the time, Iranian officials said they hoped to be operating 18 cascades by May, each one of which could enrich uranium.

Ahmadinejad and his aides suggested two weeks ago that Iran had reached that goal and was operating 3,000 centrifuges, a number that would signal significant progress in the country's effort to enrich large quantities of uranium. But on Sunday and Monday, inspectors saw a total of 1,312 centrifuges in separate cascades, according to the letter. It remains unclear how effectively they are running, because Iran has encountered considerable technological hurdles in the past two years.

If Iran masters the technology to run the centrifuges in large cascades at high speeds for prolonged periods, it could produce enough uranium for a nuclear bomb. So far, it has not demonstrated the ability to properly build, assemble or run centrifuges that spin uranium at high speeds to purify it for uses such as fuel.

"The whole game for the Iranians is to present a fait accompli," said one U.S. official who agreed to discuss sensitive aspects of the program on the condition of anonymity. "They can put thousands and thousands of centrifuges together, but if none operate the way they need to over a sustained period, then they haven't mastered enrichment. But they want to create the impression that they have and then use it as a bargaining ploy in negotiations."

U.S. intelligence officials have estimated that Iran is as many as 10 years away from being able to manufacture enough uranium for a single weapon and the means to deliver it. Iranian officials say their efforts are aimed solely at producing low-enriched uranium for a future nuclear energy program. But Bush administration officials have charged that the effort is a cover for a weapons program that must be stopped. Because the same system can produce either low-grade or bomb-grade uranium, U.S. officials have said that Iran should be prevented from using the technology until there is international confidence that the country's intentions are peaceful.

On a stop in Israel yesterday, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said there is time for diplomacy in dealing with Iran's program, a strategy, he said, that "appears to be working."

"These things don't work overnight, but it seems to me clearly the preferable course to keep our focus on the diplomatic initiatives, and particularly because of the united front of the international community at this point," he added.

The IAEA letter, addressed to Iran's ambassador to the agency, noted that Tehran recently agreed -- after several months of negotiations -- to allow inspectors to make unannounced visits in Natanz and to install tamper-proof 24-hour monitoring cameras directed at the cascades. "I trust that these arrangements will be implemented as agreed," Heinonen wrote.

But Heinonen took exception with an Iranian decision to end inspections at a nuclear research reactor under construction in the city of Arak. U.N. Security Council resolutions have called on Iran to stop work at Arak and Natanz or face increased economic sanctions.

Iran maintains that its program is permissible under the terms of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and that it has no intention of complying with the resolutions.

Before the resolutions were passed, Tehran agreed to inspections at Arak, and agency representatives visited the site in January. But after the most recent U.N. sanctions were imposed, in March, Iran responded by notifying the agency that it was ending access.

In the letter, Heinonen said the action "was not justified" and that it is the legal opinion of the agency that the agreement "cannot be modified unilaterally." An IAEA official, who agreed to discuss the differences on the condition of anonymity, said there is no suspicion that Iran is concealing work at Arak. "It's just the principle" of access, the official said.

Islamic Regime Manages To Lose Yet Another Deal

The regime minion, Ahamadinejad was in Turkey, embarrassing the Iranians today.
Arriving as the head of state accompanied by his beautiful wife, dressed in Black Chador with only the tip of her nose showing, he was greeted by Turkish officials.

He is continuing to demonstrate the regime deepest incompetence in matters of diplomacy by "HAVING REFUSED REPEATED INVITATIONS BY HIS HOSTS TO VISIT ATATURK'S GRAVE", one of the most (if not the only) respected father figures in Turkish history.

As the story unfolded throughout his 2 day visit, his disrespect for the people of Turkey and their customs, as well as International pressures on Turkey, he managed to lose a $1.87 billion Doallar Gas deal.

Thanks Mr. President.

This appeared in the Guardian today;

Robert Tait in Istanbul The Guardian, Friday August 15 2008 Article historyTurkey delivered a humiliating snub to Iran's visiting president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, yesterday by backing out of a lucrative energy deal under pressure from the US government, which feared it would enhance Iranian nuclear ambitions.

Signing the £1.87bn agreement to provide Turkey with Iranian natural gas - on which memoranda of understanding had already been agreed - was to have been the crowning achievement of Ahmadinejad's two-day visit to Istanbul, which Turkish officials had agreed to after intense Iranian lobbying. Iran is Turkey's second-biggest energy supplier after Russia and has been seeking to woo Turkish investment in its South Pars gas fields.

But as Ahmadinejad met his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gül, at Ciragan Palace in Istanbul, it emerged that US intervention had effectively torpedoed a deal.

Rather than unveiling the expected landmark agreement, a press conference by the two leaders last night merely yielded a joint statement in which the countries "reiterated their desire for on-going cooperation".

Turkish officials had earlier cited Iranian pricing and investment conditions as a reason for stalling. However, that appeared to be a smokescreen aimed at disguising Turkish deference to American demands. A western diplomatic source told the Guardian that Turkey had pledged not to sign any major energy deals with Iran in return for Washington's blessing for Ahmadinejad's visit after Bush administration officials privately criticised it.

"Steve Hadley (the US national security adviser) voiced objections to Ahmadinejad's trip when he visited Ankara a month ago," the source said.

"The attitude was, we've allowed them to host [Manouchehr] Mottaki and [Saeed] Jalili (respectively, Iran's foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator), but having Ahmadinejad was sending the wrong signal.

"However, the Turks explained that he had been pressing for a visit to Turkey for a while and that they couldn't say no any longer. To meet American reservations, they promised they wouldn't sign any major energy deals, apart from maybe something on electricity, and would pressure Ahmadinejad to accept the UN security council incentive package in exchange for suspending uranium enrichment."

Amid suspicions that Iran's nuclear programme is aimed at building an atomic bomb, the US and the security council's four other permanent members - Britain, France, Russia and China, plus Germany - have pressed Tehran to suspend it through a combination of sweeteners and sanctions. Iran refuses and insists the programme is for peaceful purposes.

In recent weeks, Turkey - a Nato member and ally of the US and Israel - has used gradually improving bilateral ties to engage senior Iranian officials on the dispute. Turkey says it is opposed to a nuclear-armed Iran but has encouraged cooperation on other issues, including military action against Kurdish rebels.

However, Ahmadinejad's trip has generated criticism at home and abroad, including from Israel, which said it was "disappointed" at the invitation.

Turkey's authorities have responded by downgrading the visit to "working" status and hosting it in Istanbul rather than the capital Ankara, a decision which enabled the religiously devout Iranian leader to avoid visiting the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the modern secular Turkish state.

Cengiz Aktar, professor of EU studies at Istanbul's Bahcesehir university, said the absence of an energy deal meant Ahmadinejad's visit had been of little value to Turkey. "Turkey cannot treat Iran as the westerners do.

"It is our neighbour after all. It's realpolitik - we are obliged to this evil."

Iran's Regime Insists On Israel Being A "Non-State"

.....Which in real terms means,

Israel should be (or legitimately could be) " wiped off the map" according to President Ahmadinejad...Right?...

This report was published in the state run Tehran Times today.

You can decide for yourself, on the meaning that the article is attempting to deliver on behalf of a psychopathic regime, in charge of my country(illegally)

link:http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=175282

Iranian officials see Israel as illegitimate: spokesman
Tehran Times Political Desk


TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi on Tuesday said there is a consensus among Iranian officials that Israel is an illegitimate regime.


“Iran’s stance on the Zionist regime is agreed by consensus and all Iranian officials have a common view in this regard,” Qashqavi said in reaction to Vice President Esfandiar Rahim Mashaii’s remarks about friendship with the Israeli people.

Mashaii had earlier said, “Iran is friends with the Israeli people” in stark contrast to Iran’s stance on the Zionist regime.

He had also described the people of the United States as “one of the best nations in the world”. ................

THE REST OF THE ARTICLE WONDERS OFF FURTHER INTO ISSUES THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IRAN-ISRAEL RELATIONS.

Psychpathic Regime(s) breed Psychopathic Articles

Iran's Islamic Regime "Interior Minister" Busted Over Fake Oxford Degree

THUGS THIEVES AND THE AYATOLLAHS ARE ALL PARTS AND PARCEL OF THE SAME PACKAGE

When sceptical MPs questioned the eligibility of Ali Kordan to be Iran's interior minister, he believed he had the perfect riposte; a law degree obtained from one of the world's most elite institutions, the University of Oxford.

He even flaunted a graduation certificate on university-headed paper purporting to award him an "honorary doctorate of law" for "opening a new chapter" in comparative legal studies.

Now Kordan's extravagant claims have landed him in hot water and severely embarrassed the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after the university denied ever having awarded him a degree.

Less than a week after being confirmed in his post, he is facing calls to resign after Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran's parliament, the Majlis, ordered a committee to investigate the authenticity of his academic qualifications.

Kordan, a former revolutionary guard and university lecturer, was approved against strong opposition in a parliamentary vote after Ahmadinejad, in a highly unusual step, told MPs that his nomination had the personal backing of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But pressure on him grew after media outlets followed up allegations by some MPs that his claims to Oxford alma mater status were fantasy and that his academic qualifications amounted to no more than a mid-level college diploma.

Amid a flurry of speculation, Kordan released a copy of his Oxford "certificate" in an attempt to lay the matter to rest.

Dated June 2000, the certificate said Kordan had "shown great effort in preparing educational materials" and bore the signatures of three professors, Edmund Rolls, Alan Cowey and PE Bryant in a awarding him a degree from the university's "faculty of the college of law".

Rather than quell the controversy, however, the document only fuelled it further after the news website, Alef - linked to Ahmad Tavakoli, head of the parliament's research centre and a critic of Ahmadinejad - passed it to the University of Oxford, which disavowed it.

In a statement, the university said: "The University of Oxford has no record of Mr Ali Kordan receiving an honorary doctorate or any other degree from the university.

"Professor Edmund Rolls, Professor Peter Bryant and Professor Alan Cowey have all at some stage held posts at the University of Oxford. However, none of them work in the field of law, and none of them would sign degree certificates."

A spokesperson said the university generally awarded honorary degrees to distinguished scholars.

Alef posted the statement on its site alongside Kordan's "certificate", in which it gleefully pointed out several grammatical and spelling errors, including a misspelling of the word entitle as "intitle".

The government hit back yesterday by blocking internet access to Alef, a tactic it has used against other critical sites.

Ahmadinejad - who is not considered close to Kordan and only nominated him as a compromise candidate - has publicly defended him by saying he should not be judged on a "piece of torn paper", a phrase he has often used to dismiss UN security council resolutions against Iran's nuclear programme

True Iranians Will Not Fight For The Ayatollahs and Their Revolutionary Guards (SEPAH)

Remember guys, our country has been under siege by the regime to wage war for their own wretched cause .(Anti-American, Israeli or whatever else they are psychopathically bent to destroy)

If you love Iran, you will not help the regime.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THAT IS PATRIOTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, here is a little update, and don't be scared. They are just on their way so the Sepah can't close up Hormuz.;

The largest naval deployment since 1991 is unfolding as no less than three U.S. warships make their way towards the Persian Gulf in what observers are calling an "unprecedented" build-up, while Kuwait has activated its highest war alert in anticipation of a potential attack on Iran.

According to reports, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Ronald Reagan, and the USS Iwo Jima are steaming towards Middle East waters to reinforce the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Peleliu which are already in the region.

They will be joined by a British Royal Navy carrier battle group and a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine.

The maneuvers represent the largest movement of warships into the region since the 1991 Gulf War and come just a week after Operation Brimstone, a drill "which saw more than a dozen warships from US, British and French naval forces conduct war games in the Atlantic Ocean in preparation for a possible confrontation with Iran," reports Press TV.

The deployment has fueled rumors that Georgia's sneak attack on Russia in South Ossetia, backed by the U.S. and Israel, was a shot across the bow to warn Russia against interfering in a strike on Iran which could be imminent.

Kuwait has activated its highest priority Emergency War Plan in response to the naval deployment.

"Kuwait was caught by surprise last time, when Iraqi troops invaded the small emirate and routed the Kuwaiti army in just a few hours,” a former US diplomat to Kuwait told the Middle East Times.

The Israeli news source Debka File speculates that the U.S. naval deployment could have five alternate implications.

1. The US, aided also by France, Britain and Canada, is finalizing preparations for a partial naval blockade to deny Iran imports of benzene and other refined oil products. This action would indicate that the Bush administration had thrown in the towel on stiff United Nations sanctions and decided to take matters in its own hands.

2. Iran, which imports 40 percent of its refined fuel products from Gulf neighbors, will retaliate for the embargo by shutting the Strait of Hormuz oil route chokepoint, in which case the US naval and air force stand ready to reopen the Strait and fight back any Iranian attempt to break through the blockade.

3. Washington is deploying forces as back-up for a possible Israeli military attack on Iran’s nuclear installations.

4. A potential rush of events in which a US-led blockade, Israeli attack and Iranian reprisals pile up in a very short time and precipitate a major military crisis.

5. While a massive deployment of this nature calls for long planning, its occurrence at this time cannot be divorced from the flare-up of the Caucasian war between Russia and Georgia. While Russia has strengthened its stake in Caspian oil resources by its overwhelming military intervention against Georgia, the Americans are investing might in defending the primary Persian Gulf oil sources of the West and the Far East.

Battle To Stop The Ayatollahs In Iran From Destroying The World

ONE BATTLE AT A TIME, MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND

I was one of the thousands of Iranian kids abroad who were getting an education so I could go back home and work in my beloved Iran upon graduation.

I was 18 and it was 1979.

It all started with the Ayatollahs forcing their "cause" of Shiasm into Iran after the so called "1979 Iranian Revolution", taking US Nationals hostage for 444 days.

Mayhem in Iran has never stopped to grow since it is the one art that this regime is good at (and not much else I may add), keeping Iran in a constant state of crisis.

One must wonder what happened to global peace over the last 29 years, as the largest fleet of Naval task force in history of modern warfare heads off to the Gulf, to ensure safety of passage for shipping through the Straights of Hormuz (shadowed by threats from the Islamic regime's Revolutionary Guards in Iran) and following Operation Brimstone (aptly named, if I may) as ordinary folks in particular those still in their early 40s may not quite grasp the immensity of this situation, and the path the world took to get to this point in the first place.

Most ordinary folks in this age group, have grown up to view Iran as an "Islamic" state, not so much caring for the fact that Iran has only been an Islamic state per Se, since its 1979 revolution and the rest being a sordid history.

Iran and Iranians have been held hostage to the regime's Ayatollah Doctrine since then, suffering in silence the brutalities that the regime has exerted upon them from public hangings to stoning of women for adultery.

A modern state has been turned into a chaotic pariah within the short space of only 29 years.

A once proud nation of 70 million, has been isolated, their movements restricted and their 4000 year pride, humiliated throughout this short period and by the actions of their own brutal regime.

Iran has been surrounded by war and occupation of its borders, while Iranian resources have been drained to fund terrorist activities in Southern Lebanon, by the Islamic Regime of the Ayatollahs, and all within a short window of 29 years.

While the Millionaire Ayatollahs and their cronies enjoy multi billion dollar bank accounts in Switzerland through their Paris and other European based holdings, millions of Iranian workers have been left without their wages for the past 6 months and at all levels of the economy.

29 years of mayhem and mismanagement of the country has left Iran and Iranians in deprivation, like never seen before, while the regime has hidden itself amongst this nation of peace lovers.

The regime, instead of focusing its resources into helping improve Iranian lives, the regime has consistently focused its efforts in Anti-American and Anti-Israeli activities, all the way from organized Friday prayers, with hate mongering(Marg-Bar_Amrika) that follows each session, to deliberate acts of sabotage aimed at debilitation global economy and peace efforts between the Israelis and Palestinians.

In their most recent direct hostile act against the world economy the regime established the "IOB" or The Iranian Oil Bourse, aimed solely (according to the regime themselves) at "Dealing A Blow To To U.S. Dollar" with zero benefit to the Iranians.

The IOB went into operation on Feb-17-08 and speculative market subscription by China, India and other emerging economies DID deal a blow not only to the USD, but to the world's economy at large.

Sharply rising Oil prices to $147pb caused mayhem and destruction of global economies within the first 3 quarters of 2008, resulting in millions upon millions of ordinary hard working people across the globe to lose their livelihoods, homes and face long term recessions in their economies.

The regime in Iran started its ruthless hostage style strategy in 1979 by taking some innocent Americans hostage for 444 days, followed through by taking its own nation into darkness and hostilities for another 29 years including the support and training of the terrorists in Southern Lennon and there doesn't seem to be an end to their destructive ambitions against global peace and order.

Threatening to close the Straights of Hormuz is a blatant act of global terrorism as global shipment of Oil that support every one's lives, goes through this channel.

Terrorism is not only blowing up buildings or strapping bombs around one's waist line, as the Islamic Regime of Hell has demonstrated so very clearly.

Sanity and peace MUST prevail for freedom to survive.

Iranians are part of this equation and must be supported in regaining of their rights to join the free where they rightfully belong.

They must be supported to get rid of their Ayatollahs, before the world is set on fire.

Only the Iranians can change the course of their future and they must act now. Waiting for the world to help is not synonymous with their nature of independence and pride.

Sadly, over two thirds of Iranians have been born and raised in captivity of their regime.