From: Ad 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6657243.stm

Once you are where the Iranians now are.....nukes of all sorts are merely a
question of choice & money.

"International efforts to halt Iran's uranium enrichment programme
have been "overtaken by events", the head of the UN's nuclear
agency has said.

IAEA Director General Mohammed ElBaradei said Tehran now possessed
"the knowledge about how to enrich".

In an interview with the New York Times, he said the focus should now be on
trying to stop Iran from going to industrial-scale production. "


"Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that
Iran has solved its technical problems and is now capable of making fuel
suitable for nuclear reactors.

"From now on, it is simply a question of perfecting that knowledge.
People will not like to hear it, but that's a fact," Mr ElBaradei
said.

The findings come after a short-notice inspection by the agency at Iran's
main nuclear facility at Natanz on Sunday.

"From a proliferation perspective, the fact of the matter is that one
of the purposes of suspension - keeping them from getting the knowledge -
has been overtaken by events," Mr ElBaradei said.

He added: "The focus now should be to stop them from going to
industrial-scale production, to allow us to do a full-court-press
inspection and to be sure they remain inside the treaty."

His remarks will serve to increase the pressure on the US, British, French,
German and Russian governments, whose collective efforts to halt Iran's
nuclear research have so-far failed, says BBC diplomatic correspondent
Jonathan Marcus.

Last month the agency revealed the main nuclear plant at Natanz was using
about 1,300 centrifuges - machines that spin uranium gas into enriched
material. "


So they have a local/sovereign/internal supply of Uranium, they have
working centrifuges (with more & more coming on line by the month).

I wonder when there will be a test thump under a chunk of Persian desert.

Adam

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