Iran: We Are Creating Weapons Grade Uranium

I hate to sound repetitive, but I can’t help but think about the time that Hitler said he was going to kill all of the Jews in Europe and then tried to do it.  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahjmadinejad is following suit, and is even telling the world how he is going to do it!

The Washington Post said that “Iran couched its announcement in terms of a pressing need for fuel at a 41-year-old, U.S.-built research reactor that produces medical isotopes for an estimated 850,000 kidney, heart and cancer patients. But in reality it means that Iran will be a significant step closer to possessing the raw material needed to build a nuclear bomb.”

Iranian scientists have admitted that turning the highly enriched uranium into nuclear fuel rods for domestic power production would be very difficult.  So, what are they going to do with weapons grade nuclear material?  X-Rays?  I highly doubt it.

Once the uranium is enriched above 20 percent, it is considered highly enriched uranium. The uranium would need to be enriched further, to 60 percent and then to 90 percent, before it could be used for a weapon. “The last two steps are not that big a deal,” Albright said. They could be accomplished, he said, at a relatively small facility within months.