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 Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» (Re: عبد الحميد البرنس)
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April 12, 2006
Iran Details Nuclear Ambitions; Rice Urges 'Strong Steps'
By NAZILA FATHI and CHRISTINE HAUSER
TEHRAN, April 12 — A day after Iran announced that its engineers had advanced to a new phase in uranium enrichment, a top nuclear official reaffirmed today that the nation planned to expand its nuclear program by installing and operating thousands of centrifuges in the coming years.
Iran's recent declarations about its nuclear program drew international criticism and concern today from several countries, including Russia, China, Britain and the United States.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called for "strong steps" from the United Nations Security Council. Asked if Ms. Rice wanted sanctions, the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said the United States was consulting with Security Council members about a diplomatic course of action.
Following Tuesday's announcement by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Iran had joined the group of nuclear nations, the deputy head of Iran's atomic energy organization, Muhammad Saeedi, was quoted today as saying Iran had told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it will press ahead and start operating 3,000 centrifuges by late 2006, with further expansion to 54,000 centrifuges planned.
"We will expand uranium enrichment to industrial scale at Natanz," Mr. Saeedi said, referring to Iran's main enrichment plant, according to the ISNA news agency.
Iran's plans for industrial enrichment facilities of some 50,000 centrifuges have been known for some time, but the timing of Mr. Saeedi's remarks today, on the heels of the Iranian president's speech, underscored the country's determination to pursue its long-term program despite international demands that it stop.
Ms. Rice said that President Ahmadinejad's announcement would further isolate Iran and that the Security Council, when it meets again, will need to consider Iran's new move.
"It will be time when it reconvenes on this case for strong steps to make certain that we maintain the credibility of the international community on this issue," she said. "We are consulting now, and when the Security Council reconvenes, I think it will be a good time for action. We can't let this continue."
"Russia also joined the international criticism of Iran's announcement, with a Foreign Ministry spokesman calling it "a step in the wrong direction." The announcement appeared to scuttle Russia's proposed compromise for settling the confrontation over Iran's nuclear program: a joint-venture to enrich uranium outside of Iran, under Russian and international scrutiny.
The Russian foreign minister, Sergy V. Lavrov, however, later tempered Moscow's criticism. He advised against a rush to judgment until after the I.A.E.A director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, ended his latest round of negotiations in Iran, and he noted that Iran had "never stated that it is striving to possess nuclear weapons."
Some of the country's ruling clerics also declared that the nation would now speed ahead to produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale.
Altogether, Iran's recent remarks appear to be designed to convince the West that the program will not be suspended, setting the stage for scheduled talks on Thursday in Iran between Iranian officials and Dr. ElBaradei.
Dr. ElBaradei is expected to make another appeal for Iran to halt its enrichment program and avoid a confrontation with the West. He is required to report back to the Security Council by April 28 on whether Iran has agreed to the demand late last month that it shut down its facilities within 30 days.
The British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said today that President Ahmadinejad's statement was "deeply unhelpful" and that after Dr. ElBaradei reports back to the Security Council: "If Iran does not comply, the Security Council will discuss further diplomatic measures."
China expressed concern today but said it was not convinced the Security Council needed to take a tougher line on the issue. China's United Nations ambassador, Wang Guangya, told reporters at the United Nations that for now the I.A.E.A should remain in charge of the crisis over Iran's nuclear ambitions rather than the Security Council, Reuters reported.
He said the five permanent members of the Security Council, and Germany, planned to meet again "in a few days to discuss and take note of the situation.
"I do hope the Iranians will take note of the reactions and be more cooperative with the I.A.E.A. and also with the Security Council," Mr. Wang said, according to Reuters.
The White House, which has charged that Iran is secretly trying to develop fuel for nuclear weapons, said after Mr. Ahmadinejad's remarks on Tuesday that Iran was "moving in the wrong direction." The National Security Council announced that the United States would work with the United Nations Security Council "to deal with the significant threat posed by the regime's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons."
On Tuesday, Mr. Ahmadinejad, in front of a large, carefully staged and nationally televised celebration in Mashhad, announced that Iran had mastered a stage of the nuclear process. "The nuclear fuel cycle at the laboratory level has been completed, and uranium with the desired enrichment for nuclear power plants was achieved, " he said.
Outside experts said that while the country appears to have passed a milestone — one it has approached before with smaller-scale enrichment of uranium — the announcement may have had less to do with an engineering feat than with carefully timed political theater intended to convince the West that the program is unstoppable.
The declaration also came at a time of intense speculation in Washington that preliminary plans are advancing to take military action against Iran's nuclear sites if diplomacy fails, an idea Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld dismissed Tuesday as "fantasy land."
Today, the Russian foreign minister, Mr. Lavrov, also firmly restated Russia's opposition to any use of force, a concern that has flared again in Russia following reports in The Washington Post and The New Yorker that the Bush administration was already drawing up plans for military strikes.
"If such plans exists, and we read reports about this in the mass media, they cannot solve this problem," Mr. Lavrov said during an appearance with Albania's foreign minister. "This can only create another explosive hotbed in the Middle East."
The Chinese ambassador, Mr. Wang, said that talk of sanctions or military options "will not be helpful under the current circumstances," according to the Reuters report.
European nations that have pressed for three years to persuade Iran to halt its fuel production program. And on Monday, President Bush repeated that his "stated goal" was that "we do not want the Iranians to have a nuclear weapon, the capacity to make a nuclear weapon, or the knowledge as to how to make a nuclear weapon."
For that reason, he has opposed allowing Iran to enrich uranium, even though Iran has signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and has the right to produce fuel for nuclear power reactors.
If the Iranian declaration is correct, the enrichment and what appear to be rudimentary bomb-making documents that international inspectors have found in Iran suggest Iranians may now have most of the knowledge that Mr. Bush has sought to deny them.
At the least, they appear poised to be able eventually to expand enrichment on an industrial scale and, if they are determined to do so, enrich the uranium to levels necessary for an atomic weapon. But so far the quantities that the country has produced appear to be minuscule, and the enrichment level announced today — 3.5 percent — would work for producing power, not warheads.
Centrifuges are devices whose rotors spin very rapidly to enrich, or concentrate, a rare form of uranium known as uranium 235, which can then be used to fuel nuclear reactors or atom bombs. The 164 centrifuges Iran said it has strung together in a cascade are enough to test the technology, but with such a small number would take years to produce enough uranium for even one weapon.
Mr. Ahmadinejad reiterated his contention that Iran's nuclear program was being developed for industrial and power purposes alone, and said his country "does not get its strength from nuclear arsenals."
Mr. Ahmadinejad was careful to position Iran as operating within the existing proliferation rules, saying his country's nuclear activities have been "under complete, unprecedented" supervision by the atomic energy agency.
But he did not mention that he has restricted the access of those inspectors to some sites in recent months, and that inspectors have yet to receive explanations of the documents that appear to have bomb designs, or an explanation of the centrifuge equipment and designs the country bought in the mid-1990's from Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani nuclear engineer who helped start Iran's program.
Mr. Ahmadinejad said Iran would continue to allow inspectors to watch its progress. "Today we are interested to operate under I.A.E.A. supervision what has been achieved," he said. "And what is going to be achieved in the future is within the framework of the rights of the nation."
Nazila Fathi reported from Tehran for this article, and Christine Hauser from New York. Reporting was contributed for this article by Steven Lee Myersfrom Moscow, David E. Sanger from Washington,and William J. Broad from New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/12/world/middleeast/12cn...tml?_r=1&oref=slogin
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 إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-12-06, 05:42 PM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-12-06, 06:12 PM |
 Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | هشام مدنى | 04-12-06, 06:16 PM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-12-06, 06:50 PM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-12-06, 07:32 PM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-12-06, 07:57 PM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-13-06, 05:34 AM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-14-06, 03:02 AM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-15-06, 11:33 AM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | Outcast | 04-15-06, 05:10 PM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | هاشم نوريت | 04-15-06, 06:47 PM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-16-06, 12:17 PM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-16-06, 12:22 PM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | khaleel | 04-16-06, 12:59 PM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الله عقيد | 04-16-06, 01:49 PM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | Adil Al Badawi | 04-17-06, 02:03 AM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-17-06, 08:22 AM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-17-06, 08:26 AM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-17-06, 08:31 AM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-17-06, 08:42 AM |
| Re: إيران في «نادي الذرة» | عبد الحميد البرنس | 04-18-06, 01:27 AM |
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