Iran and the Bomb

You may have heard the latest estimates concerning Iran and its ability to put together a nuclear bomb. This is the most chilling report yet, as it moves up the time estimates that were given a few weeks ago. Senator Joe Biden (Vice-President Elect) forwarned that President Obama would face a major international situation in his first few months in office. It looks like Joe is a prophet, although most of us had a pretty good idea he was talking about Iran.

What will happen? I have no idea...Obviously, George Bush has washed his hands of anything international, other than his last desperate attempt to divide Jerusalem to the Palestinians. Israel has yet to form a new government, leaving Ehud Ohmert in office until February. He continues to wreck havoc!

President Obama will, most likely, fulfill his campaign pledge to sit down and talk with Ahmadinijad without preconditions. That means Iran will have plenty of opportunities to use their latest toy on Israel or the United States. Trouble is definitely around the corner. Stay tuned.
Pastor Jim

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Iran has enough nuclear material for a single A-Bomb – IAEA
DEBKAfile Special Report

November 20, 2008, 9:05 PM (GMT+02:00)


Enough for a single A-Bomb
Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors.

This is the conclusion contained in the report leaked by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna Wednesday, Nov. 19, for submission to the agency’s board Nov. 27-28. This alarming development is headlined by the New York Times and Bloomberg website Nov. 20, but does not rate Israeli official comment or a mention in the its media.

In the last few weeks, Iran has doubled or even trebled the pace of its uranium enrichment process. Nuclear watchdog sources report that in October, Iran was known to have accumulated 480 kilos of low grade 5 percent enriched uranium, a short step from “break-out” to weapons grade (90 percent) material.

By mid-November, the Iranians topped this up to 630 kilos, adding 150 kilos in six weeks. By the end of 2009, Iran will have enough enriched uranium for 2-3 nuclear bombs.

Tehran has thus jumped three months ahead of US and Israeli intelligence estimated timeline of February 2009 as the timeline for a sufficiency of enriched uranium to build a bomb. The experts ask how long until Iran has the know-how for further purifying the fuel and perfecting the design for an atomic warhead. DEBKAfile’s sources report that Tehran acquired this technology some years ago from the Pakistani nuclear smuggler Dr. A.Q. Khan.