The toothless watchdog called the IAEA has finally barked about Iran. It is a small, timid “Woof”, but a bark it is. After years and years of playing cat-and-mouse with the Iranians, they now say Iran has enough enriched uranium for two warheads:
IAEA report on Iran likely to boost West’s opposition to Tehran’s fuel swap offer
Published May 31, 2010 | Associated Press
VIENNA (AP) — Iran has amassed more than two tons of enriched uranium, the U.N. atomic agency said Monday in a report that heightened Western concerns about the country developing the ability to produce a nuclear weapon.
Two tons of uranium would be enough for two nuclear warheads, although Iran says it does not want weapons and is only pursuing civilian nuclear energy.
Full stop. Re-read that. The IAEA says they have enough uranium for two warheads. This is the same IAEA that in 2007 was saying that Iran wasn’t persuing nuclear weapons anymore. They are enriching the uranium to weapons-grade for peaceful purposes. Does anybody really believe that?
The Democrats are culpable in this. The threshold has been crossed. What took a team of geniuses to do in 1945 is now a fairly straightforward engineering problem if you have the weapons-grade radiologicals to build it. If the IAEA says they can make two, we can figure, what, ten? The IAEA isn’t a reliable enough witness to say for sure, but it is certain that they’ll have more than enough.
And the centrifuges are still spinning.
In the face of this, the UN, with the cooperation of the Obama Administration, has stepped up to lean on Israel about her nuclear deterrant. This in the face of rhetoric from Iran’s leaders promising a Second Holocaust as soon as it is in their power.
Soon it will be. Now that they have the material that they have been seeking, it is only a matter of time (probably not very long) before Iran has nuclear weapons. And the Obama Administration does nothing. Nothing to Iran, at least. Surely Israel will not be foolish enough to surrender her deterrant at the whim of the American President. One hopes that, contrary to their incindary rhetoric, that deterrant is enough to deter Iran from initiating a regional nuclear war in the Middle East.
