February 10, 2010
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Iran Declares Itself a Nuclear Power
Well, it turns out that my earlier assumption that the unveiling of the electric Samand was Ahmadinejad's 'blow to the West' was somewhat premature.
Iran is now a 'nuclear state' says Ahmadinejad as thousands take to the streets
Iran is now a 'nuclear state', President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced this morning.
As Gordon Brown warned that the world's patience is wearing thin, Ahmadinejad told scores of cheering Iranians that the Islamic Republic is capable of producing weapons-grade uranium.
He spoke as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Tehran to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
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He said it had produced its first batch of 20 per cent enriched uranium - and had the capability to enrich to far higher levels at its Natanz plant.
Enriching uranium produces fuel for a nuclear power plants but can also be used to create material for atomic weapons.
The international community has warned Iran against further enrichment activities, threatening new UN sanctions.
Today Gordon Brown again reiterated the threat of sanctions.
'I believe the mood around the world is now increasingly one where, patience not being inexhaustible, people are turning to look at the specific sanctions we can plan on Iran,' Mr Brown said.
'This is a critical time for Iran's relationship with the rest of the world.'
MrBrown said the international community did not want to impose sanctions but would do so if Iran did not cooperate more fully over its nuclear plans
The Iranian leader insisted the material was not intended to produce an atomic bomb, however.
'We have the capability to enrich uranium more than 20 percent or 80 percent (the level needed to create an atomic bomb),' he said in a speech broadcast live on state television.
'But we don't enrich (to this level) because we don't need it...
'When we say we do not manufacture the bomb, we mean it, and we do not believe in manufacturing a bomb,' he told the crowd. 'If we wanted to manufacture a bomb we would announce it.'
Obama accuses Tehran of building a bombU.S. President Barack Obama has accused Iran of building a bomb amid threats from Tehran to stun the West with a 'punch' during tomorrow's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
Mr Obama warned of a ‘significant regime of sanctions’ on Iran after the regime announced it has started making uranium enriched to 20 per cent in defiance of a nuclear fuel deal with the West.
And since the media lie being deployed to justify a strike against Iran in the minds of the masses is still in circulation, it certainly doesn't hurt to repost this:
LETHAL MEDIA LIE PROMOTED BY HATE GROUP/LETHAL MEDIA LIE INTENSIFICATION One must balance their pride and their humility. Be neither arrogant nor shameful. He who cannot strike a balance is like the egg laid incautiously on the peak of a roof; he will move inexorably towards destruction.
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