IRAN’S NEW NUCLEAR PLANT CONFORMS WITH...

A few days ago I read an article about how Obama revealed a secret nuclear plant in Iran. That is far from the truth. First it is no secret, second its existence was reported to IAEA on 21 September by Iran. Third, it will be about 18 months before it goes into operation.

IAEA has been invited and will inspect the plant on a regular basis. It’s stated purpose is to provide electricity.

I get tired of the constant rhetoric about Iran and it’s supposed Nuclear plans. So far nothing has been proven and nothing has indicated their war-like intentions. Then too the enemy of Iraq is Israel so I see no reason why Iran would not want a nuclear arsenal since Israel has one. Israel has threatened to bomb Iran a lot more than Iran has threatened Israel. Read the article. I have made some comments which are marked off by [ ]

The following article is from France 24

AFP - Iran said on Saturday it will put its newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog, in a move welcomed by the United States.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, said the disclosure was a "firm blow" to Western powers opposed to Tehran's atomic work.

[ Yep a firm blow because they can’t blow up one nuclear plant and put Iran out of the electricity business they would have to blow up two ]

"This site will be under the supervision of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and will have a maximum of five percent (uranium) enrichment capacity," Iran's atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on state television.

The plant, which is "not an industrial scale" unit, will be operational in two years' time, he said.

Dismissing allegations that the plant has a military purpose, Salehi said the facility is being constructed as a "precautionary measure in case of an unwanted incident against our nuclear programme."

[In other words in case Israel carries through with their threats]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed the decision to grant access to the IAEA.

"It is always welcome when Iran makes a decision to comply with the international rules and regulations, and particularly with respect to the IAEA," she told reporters in New York.

Earlier on Saturday, Salehi said Tehran would allow IAEA inspectors to inspect the plant, 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Tehran on the road to the Shiite holy city of Qom.

On Friday, the IAEA said Tehran wrote to the agency on September 21 disclosing that it is building a new uranium enrichment facility.

"God willing this new plant will become operational soon and make the enemy blind," Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's chief of staff, was quoted by Fars news agency as saying on Saturday.

Iran's hardline president claimed the disclosure as a success for the Islamic republic.

"This issue was turned around in a way that (now) we believe they regret bringing it up," Ahmadinejad told reporters on his return home from the UN General Assembly in New York.

"They may pursue this issue through the media but it has become a firm blow to the arrogance," in reference to the United States and other Western powers, the hardline Iranian president said.

The announcement of the new facility came just days before an October 1 meeting in Geneva between Iran and six world powers to discuss Tehran's disputed atomic programme.

Ahmadinejad denied Tehran was building the plant in secret, as charged by Western leaders, and told reporters in New York on Friday the facility was "completely legal."

"We actually informed the agency (IAEA) 18 months ahead of time. Is this the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do? I thought we are supposed to be encouraged for taking this action."

US President Barack Obama and other Western leaders have threatened Tehran with new sanctions if it does not come clean during the Geneva talks between Iran and Britain, France, Russia, China, Germany and the United States.

[ How clean Mr. O.? they told you what they were doing and did it in accordance with the nuclear nonproliferation treaty]

The six world powers suspect Tehran is developing atomic weapons under the guise of a civilian nuclear energy programme, a charge Iran vociferously denies.

Uranium enrichment lies at the heart of the nuclear controversy, since the process can be used to make an atomic bomb as well as producing fuel for nuclear reactors.

Obama said Tehran's new facility was "a serious challenge to the global non-proliferation regime, and continues a disturbing pattern of Iranian evasion."

"But Iran must now cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and take action to demonstrate its peaceful intentions," he said in his weekly audio and video address on Saturday.

[ How fully is fully. They notified the IAEA almost 2 years in advance and did more than the treaty requires.]

Iran's leaders "must now choose -- they can live up to their responsibilities and achieve integration with the community of nations. Or they will face increased pressure and isolation."

On Friday, Obama did not rule out a military option to halt Tehran's galloping nuclear drive, and on Saturday, Iran's arch-foe Israel called for an "unequivocal" response from the West.

"We are not surprised by the recent revelations, because we have been saying that Iran is developing its nuclear activities for military purposes, and the facts prove it now," Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said.

[ Israel is a nuclear power. Israel has a nuclear program for military purposes. Israel has threatened Iran. Iran is as much of a nation as Israel. Iran has as much right to have any kind of weapons system they want just as any other nation.]

[ I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THE CONSTANT BARAGE OF FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT IRAN - THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING TO DESERVE IT, AT LEAST TO THE U.S. ]