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Iran to Use Faster Centrifuge at New Nuke Site

By Philip Klein on 10.6.09 @ 11:07AM

Iran is planning to use new centrifuges at its recently-disclosed nuclear site that can enrich uranium at double or triple the rate of other centrifuges, Reuters reports, citing an article from an Iranian newspaper.

"We have put our effort on research and development of new machines in the past two or three months so that we would be able to produce machines with high efficiency and completely indigenous," Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's head atomic energy official told the newspaper in an interview.

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Tim| 10.6.09 @ 11:33AM

Hell bent for leather.

Pete| 10.6.09 @ 6:09PM

They are effectively mooning us, and Obama sits on his hands. Great leadership, dunce.

S.L. Toddard| 10.6.09 @ 7:54PM

Good for Iran. Unlike America and Israel, the nation of Iran has neither attacked nor invaded any other nations since their revolution. Unlike Israel, who builds nukes in secret and hides their arsenal from the world, Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty and allowed the UN to inspect their nuclear facilities, and the UN has found the same thing that the United States intelligence services have found - that Iran has no operational nuclear weapons program.

I have to say, however, that Iran - a peaceful nation that is constantly being threatened with attacks from more belligerent nations like Israel and the United States (quite literally the most militarily aggressive nation now in existence) - is not being very rational by discontinuing their quest for nuclear weapons. It would be the height of sensibility for a country that is threatened so often to seek a deterrent to attacks from such belligerent and reckless aggressor nations.

The best course of action for America to take would be to remove ourselves completely from the Middle East, stop trying to police the world and allow Iran to defend itself as it sees fit. There is nothing quite so comical as a "conservative" arguing for small gov't... and then insisting America must rule over and police the world! Alas, consistency is not the Fox News Right's strong suit.

Stan Redmond| 10.7.09 @ 12:30AM

Dare I even reply? No, I dare not. This is such an obvious attempt to get a rise out of comical conservatives that all I can say is "move along folks."