Iranian Religious Leader: We're Already Nuclear

[Chris]

Iranian Religious Leader: We're Already Nuclear
Senior Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami: Iran is already nuclear, U.S. too blind to realize that.
By Elad Benari, Canada
First Publish: 1/27/2012, 10:16 PM

Senior Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said on Friday that Iran is already a nuclear state and that Americans have not realized that. “The United States says it will not allow Iran to be nuclear, but it is so blind that it hasn’t noticed that Iran has already become a nuclear state,” Khatami was quoted by Channel 10 News as having said. He added that the U.S. has become isolated in the region, after its four “slaves” were removed from power. He was referring to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, former Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi, former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

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[mattfivefour]

Just one more lie in an ocean of lies. They're well under construction, but the ship ain't launched yet.

[Sean Osborne]

“The United States says it will not allow Iran to be nuclear, but it is so blind that it hasn’t noticed that Iran has already become a nuclear state.”

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami is telling the truth here. Iran already is a nuclear state. The Bushehr nuclear reactor achieved sustained nuclear reaction eight months ago, went online four months ago and will achieve full 1000MW operating capacity in a very few weeks.

Any nation with a power plant like Bushehr is by definition "a nuclear state."

[mattfivefour]

Well, yes, in that sense it is. But not in the weapon sense ... just yet. But if the world keeps dithering, it surely will be. Soon.

[Sean Osborne]

I believe Israel will strike Iran before it can successfully construct a nuclear fission/fusion weapon of its own. I believe the timing of that strike can be measured in days and hours instead of months or weeks.

Israel knows that Iran has lots of continuing outside help (North Korea, AQ Khan, etc) as it had (first and foremost from France, but also from Canada and other former Manhattan Project and Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists) itself in the development of a nuclear weapon capability.

Israel knows from the founder of its own nuclear program, Ernst David Bergmann, that there is only one form of nuclear energy, that any civil splitting of an atom inherently includes the ability to do so for military purposes.

Israel knows from it's secret French-built underground Dimona EL-102 heavy water reactor, which was ten times smaller (100MW) than the one Iran built with Russian assistance (Bushehr 1000MW), built two nuclear weapons in less than 6 years.

Israel knows its current stockpile of nuclear weapons did not actually require even a single test detonation.

Israel knows that Iran's IR-40MW heavy water plutonium reactor built with Russian assistance has been operating since the late 1990s - definitively more than ten years.

Israel is going to strike sooner than anyone expects.

[Sean Osborne]

Bump.

[Chris]

I believe Israel will strike Iran before it can successfully construct a nuclear fission/fusion weapon of its own. I believe the timing of that strike can be measured in days and hours instead of months or weeks.

Israel knows that Iran has lots of continuing outside help (North Korea, AQ Khan, etc) as it had (first and foremost from France, but also from Canada and other former Manhattan Project and Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists) itself in the development of a nuclear weapon capability.

Israel knows from the founder of its own nuclear program, Ernst David Bergmann, that there is only one form of nuclear energy, that any civil splitting of an atom inherently includes the ability to do so for military purposes.

Israel knows from it's secret French-built underground Dimona EL-102 heavy water reactor, which was ten times smaller (100MW) than the one Iran built with Russian assistance (Bushehr 1000MW), built two nuclear weapons in less than 6 years.

Israel knows its current stockpile of nuclear weapons did not actually require even a single test detonation.

Israel knows that Iran's IR-40MW heavy water plutonium reactor built with Russian assistance has been operating since the late 1990s - definitively more than ten years.

Israel is going to strike sooner than anyone expects.

I'm ready!! Let's get the show on the road. We can't let the mad mullahs get nukes. The world will be totally different if they get nuclear weapons.

[SonSeeker]

I believe the timing of that strike can be measured in days and hours instead of months or weeks.

Ouch!

This is one time I hope you're wrong, Sean.

[SonSeeker]

Sean, does Iran have a reliable delivery system?

[Cricket55]

I agree it will be sooner than months and then all heck will break loose in the ME. I think Iran does have a reliable delivery system also.

[readyforhome]

Remember that they don't have to launch any missles, though this would certainly seem to be the most logical choice. They do believe that if they sacriice themselves that they will go to heaven with virgins at their beck and call. So who is to say that they wouldn't just give someone a backpack nuke and set them off. Maybe using a method where the units used for detecting such weapons would not be as effective. God forbid this happen, but it could.

[Sean Osborne]

Sean, does Iran have a reliable delivery system?

Yes, they have a couple available. They have a satellite launch system that could double as an ICBM launch platform; a couple of IRBM (Intermediate Range) missile systems and finally a cruise missile systems based on the Russian-made Kh-55 Granat for shorter ranges. Which delivery system used would depend on which warhead design they chose to produce first.

[Sean Osborne]

The world will be totally different if they get nuclear weapons.

I believe the world will change into something unrecognizable from what we know today the same day a strike on Iran is launched by any nation or group of nations.