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[Chicopee John]

Obama Accuses Iran of Building Secret Nuke Plant, Demands Inspection

 

FOXNews.com Friday, September 25, 2009

 

 

(AP)

 

 

President Obama, along with the leaders of Britain and France accused Iran Friday of building a secret nuclear facility underground in secret and charged that it has hidden the facility for years from international weapons inspectors.

 

Obama, joined by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the opening of the G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh, demanded that Iran grant weapons inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency immediate access to the facility.

 

"Iran has the right for peaceful power but the size of the facility is inconsistent with a peaceful program," Obama said. "Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follows, endangering the world non-nuclear proliferation regime ... and the security of the world."

 

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Iran has until December to comply or face sanctions. "This is for peace and stability," the French leader said. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused Iran of "serial deception."

 

Iran revealed the existence of a covert uranium enrichment facility to the U.N. nuclear watchdog this week after it discovered the project's secrecy had been breached by Western intelligence agencies, FOX News has learned.

 

An official told FOX News that Iran revealed the existence of the second plant in a letter sent Monday to IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei.

 

Iran is under three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze enrichment at what had been its single known enrichment plant, which is being monitored by the IAEA.

 

A senior administration official told FOX News that the U.S. has been tracking the secret project for years, but Obama's announcement comes after Iran discovered in recent weeks that the West had been monitoring the project.

 

Iran's letter to the U.N. contained no details about the location of the second facility, when — or if — it had started operations or the type and number of centrifuges it was running.

 

"They [iran] have cheated three times, and they have now been caught three times," an unnamed official with access to the intelligence told The New York Times.

 

But one of the officials, who had access to a review of Western intelligence on the issue, said it was about 100 miles southwest of Tehran and was the site of 3,000 centrifuges that could be operational by next year.

 

Iranian officials had previously acknowledged having only one plant — the one under IAEA monitoring — and had denied allegations of undeclared nuclear activities.

 

The last IAEA report on Iran in August said Iran had set up more than 8,000 centrifuges to churn out enriched uranium at the cavernous underground Natanz facility, although the report said that only about 4,600 of those were fully active.

 

The Islamic Republic insists that it has the right to the activity to generate fuel for what it says will be a nationwide chain of nuclear reactors. But because enrichment can make both nuclear fuel and weapons-grade uranium, the international community fears Tehran will use the technology to generate the fissile material used on the tip of nuclear warheads.

 

The revelation of a secret plan further hinders the chances of progress in scheduled Oct. 1 talks between Iran and six world powers.

 

At that meeting — the first in more than a year — the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany plan to press Iran to scale back on its enrichment activities. But Tehran has declared that it will not bargain on enrichment.

 

While Iran's mainstay P-1 centrifuge is a decades-old model based on Chinese technology, it has begun experimenting with state-of-the art prototypes that enrich more quickly and efficiently than its old model.

 

U.N. officials familiar with the IAEA's attempts to monitor and probe Iran's nuclear activities have previously told the AP that they suspected Iran might be running undeclared enrichment plants.

 

The existence of a secret Iranian enrichment program built on black-market technology was revealed seven years ago. Since then, the country has continued to expand the program with only a few interruptions as it works toward its aspirations of a 50,000-centrifuge enrichment facility at the southern city of Natanz.

 

 

[Chicopee John]

Well after how much we screwed the pooch in the middle east,we dont have alot of credibiltiy and we all no that Iran is up to know good ,so before we go it alone and get all gunslinger again in the middle east we need more countries support and let them share the responsibility because Iran does buisness with russia and alot of our enemies and if we do go it alone its not going to go over well and were stretched thin enough.

 

Just like the last time, Danamal. Deja Vu all over again!

 

Without UN support, maybe Obama will simply back down and let this continue.

 

[calfoxwc]

Tough situation. It is no wonder that Israel held off from taking out the plant themselves...

 

I will bet they knew about the underground bunker/nuke material enrichment plant.

 

Like before with us going into Iraq, Husseins' gov defeated the sanctions, because

 

France, Germany, and Russia were working with them behind the scenes.

 

I wonder how long the Soviets have known.

 

If Israel does have to take out that plant... Iran could use it, dishonestly so,

 

for their own political advantage in the Arab world, which is probably why aaksmellssobad

 

has been making all the outlandish, intimidating statements.

 

And the Soviets were going to sell Iran a sophisticated air defense missile system?

 

Not good.

 

It's time to take out that plant if Iran won't give it up. But Obama has already alienated the Brits,

 

and I'm not certain the French will trust him either.

 

The best bet, though, is for the Brits, France and the US to team together to run the op

 

if worst comes to worst.

 

But it has to be stopped. I'm concerned that the Russians covered it up so long... ?

[Chicopee John]

This time around though we really have no other options ...........

 

OK, Art.

 

[Kosar_For_President]

Cal put down the partisan politcs and stop blaming the current guy for this ,Obama has very favorable ratings with european leaders he inherited arrogance and a very dismissive attitude that not only pissed off europe but most of the world.

You cant give everyone the finger and expect support,it doesnt work that way.

 

It's childish bipartisanship. Nothing else.

[calfoxwc]

Of course I blame Obama for the current low in US-Britain relations. YOUR DENIAL is what is partisan.

 

It was the JUDGE in SCOTLAND that released the terrorist. Not Brown.

 

Here:

 

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sol/homepa...bie-bomber.html

 

BRITISH relations with the US risked plunging to a new low last night after President Obama

told Gordon Brown of his fury over the Lockerbie bomber.

 

The White House took the unusual step of releasing details of the leaders' phone conversation.

 

Mr Obama made it clear he was "disappointed" that cancer-stricken Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was freed.

 

A President rarely lets the world know of a dispute with an ally - especially one with the British PM.

 

Downing Street tried to play down the call, but White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement:

"The United States has expressed regret at the Scottish decision to turn over to Libya the Lockerbie prisoner,

but Obama had not done so personally to Brown.

 

Blasted ... Gordon Brown

 

"The President expressed his disappointment over the Scottish executive's decision."

 

Last night's 40-minute call was the eighth between the men since Mr Obama took office

- and the President used it to express his anger personally.

 

No 10 claimed the call - in which they also discussed the Afghan war - was "warm and substantive",

adding: "The leaders concluded the special relationship was as strong as ever."

 

Americans are disgusted Megrahi got out on "compassionate grounds" as he is dying.

 

They believe he should still be caged for killing 270 people when Pan Am flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie in 1988.

 

The PM will meet Mr Obama in a fortnight at summits in Pittsburgh and New York.

 

Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said last night: "The decision to release Mr al-Megrahi has damaged our relationship with our closest ally."

 

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MR Obama told Congress yesterday it was the "season for action" on his health reforms and Vice-President Joe Biden said he expected a ruling by November.

 

 

 

[Kosar_For_President]

Of course I blame Obama for the current low in US-Britain relations. YOUR DENIAL is what is partisan.

 

It was the JUDGE in SCOTLAND that released the terrorist. Not Brown.

 

Here:

 

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sol/homepa...bie-bomber.html

 

BRITISH relations with the US risked plunging to a new low last night after President Obama

told Gordon Brown of his fury over the Lockerbie bomber.

 

The White House took the unusual step of releasing details of the leaders' phone conversation.

 

Mr Obama made it clear he was "disappointed" that cancer-stricken Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was freed.

 

A President rarely lets the world know of a dispute with an ally - especially one with the British PM.

 

Downing Street tried to play down the call, but White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement:

"The United States has expressed regret at the Scottish decision to turn over to Libya the Lockerbie prisoner,

but Obama had not done so personally to Brown.

 

Blasted ... Gordon Brown

 

"The President expressed his disappointment over the Scottish executive's decision."

 

Last night's 40-minute call was the eighth between the men since Mr Obama took office

- and the President used it to express his anger personally.

 

No 10 claimed the call - in which they also discussed the Afghan war - was "warm and substantive",

adding: "The leaders concluded the special relationship was as strong as ever."

 

Americans are disgusted Megrahi got out on "compassionate grounds" as he is dying.

 

They believe he should still be caged for killing 270 people when Pan Am flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie in 1988.

 

The PM will meet Mr Obama in a fortnight at summits in Pittsburgh and New York.

 

Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said last night: "The decision to release Mr al-Megrahi has damaged our relationship with our closest ally."

 

•

MR Obama told Congress yesterday it was the "season for action" on his health reforms and Vice-President Joe Biden said he expected a ruling by November.

 

I agree Cal, but you are wasting your time, they are all f'ucks. I mean your not looking at the big picture. Tunnel vision.

 

[calfoxwc]

Well, okay, except they aren't all f****, they are venomous schmutzes. Get yer terminology right.