How much longer will the world sit back and watch the Khomeinists in Iran get nukes?

Question

Iran has more than tripled its ability to produce enriched uranium in the last three months, adding some 1,000 centrifuges which are used to separate radioactive particles from the raw material.
The development means Iran could have enough material for a nuclear bomb by 2009, sources familiar with the dramatic upgrade tell ABC News.
The sources say the unexpected expansion is taking place at Iran's nuclear enrichment plant outside the city of Natanz, in a hardened facility 70 feet underground.
A spokesperson for the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA, declined to comment citing the "extreme sensitivity" of the situation with Iran.
Iran has already declared its above-ground operations at Natanz have some 320 centrifuges.
The addition of 1,000 new centrifuges, which are not yet operational, means Iran is expanding its enrichment program at a pace much faster than U.S. intelligence experts had predicted.

"If they continue at this pace, and they get the centrifuges to work and actually enrich uranium on a distinct basis," said David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security, "then you're looking at them having, potentially having enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon in 2009."
Previous predictions by U.S. intelligence had cited 2015 as the earliest date Iran could develop a weapon.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has publicly predicted his country would have 3,000 centrifuges installed by this May, but few in the West gave his claim much credence, until now.
"I think we have all been caught off guard. Ahmadinejad said they would have these 3,000 installed by the end of May, and it appears they may actually do it," Albright said.
The new centrifuges are in open defiance of the U.N. Security Council which last week imposed a new set of sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt enrichment.

Iran maintains its enrichment facilities are only meant to produce fuel for nuclear power reactors.
But the uranium they are enriching could not be used in the Russian nuclear power reactor they are currently building.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/exclusive_iran_.html

Answer 1

Just like always the rest of the world sits back and waits for the US to save their ungrateful @sses.

Answer 2

I agree with one of the other answerers....the loose cannon we should be worry about is the Bush administration.

Who gave the U.S (or the U.N.) the right to tell any country what weapons they can and can't have? This is not like post-world-war Germany or something. Iran has not attacked us. Iran has not SAID they will attack us. We cannot act until we are attacked or directly threatened.

That is what constitutes a just war.

Go ahead, set Iran off by breathing down their neck. The U.S. and U.N. are actually goading them to nuke us by their foolish rhetoric. Eventually, they will get the war they are drooling for and I wash my hands of it.

Answer 3

Don't worry. The Israeli's will take care of it. Sadam tried to develop nukes in the early eighties. The Israeli's turned his reactor into a smoking hole in the ground. When things get to a point where Iran threatens them, the same thing will happen. The U.S. or the rest of the world doesn't need to get involved.

Answer 4

The split second someone fields so much as a single dirty bomb, you'll see the s*** hit the fan.

The hard reality check here is how are they going to deliver it to the U.S.?

Rather than split our stretched resources, perhaps we should turn now to securing our borders, then send our special forces and Bush's private mercenary army, a.k.a Blackwater, to do the job they are so prepared to do.

Bush and his supporters can write the checks for this out of their petty cash if they are so concerned.

Answer 5

Most will sit and twiddle until a large mushroom blooms over a familiar city.

Then, they'll blame George Bush for not doing something to prevent this from happening.

Answer 6

how much longer will the world sit by and watch as the united states has nukes and a loose cannon in the whitehouse....