"Iran Says It’s Installing New Centrifuges"
".... Western experts cautioned that Iran’s technical claims often exceeded its grasp, and in the past they have greeted such pronouncements by Iran with skepticism. While they have confirmed that Iran has 3,000 operating centrifuges, there was no confirmation of the latest claims.
If Iran carries out its plans, it will triple the size of its industrial base and produce a major expansion in its uranium enrichment program. Enrichment can make fuel for civilian nuclear reactors or, if taken to higher levels, nuclear warheads.
The United States and other Western countries have accused Iran of having a clandestine nuclear arms program, but Iran says its program is peaceful and for civilian purposes only.
Mr. Ahmadinejad made the announcement on the anniversary of Iran’s first production of enriched uranium, in 2006, when it boasted of joining the world’s “nuclear club.”
.... David Albright, a former arms inspector and the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, which tracks nuclear proliferation, said that based on information from international inspectors, the 3,000 existing centrifuges appeared to be running poorly and that Iran’s expansion might be more about political posturing than technical advance.
“They really haven’t run much uranium through them successfully,” he said in an interview.
But Mr. Albright added that if Iran could master the difficult task of getting 9,000 centrifuges to run smoothly without breaking down periodically, that would, theoretically, expand its ability to make bomb fuel for one to three or so nuclear weapons a year....
That's it? We have THOUSANDS and Bush wants to make newer and improved ones!!!!
So why the underwear in a bunch, West?
Even if the Iranians wanted a bomb, it is obviously for DETERRENCE!!!!
See Iraq and Korea for that analogy.
Who got invaded and didn't have a nuke, and who had a nuke and didn't get invaded (yet)?
I mean, even the Israelis have HUNDREDS of the... oh, oh, I SEE NOW!
That's why this is such an issue with Western governments!!!!
At a ceremony in Tehran on Tuesday.... women sang... and young men wearing blue shawls and white banners danced, despite religious restrictions that ban dancing and bar women from singing.
Oh, those horrid, rigid, Muslim mullahs!!!
Mr. Ahmadinejad was shown on state television shedding tears when the announcer referred to the ”martyrs” of the 1980-88 war with Iraq."
Yeah, that war (initiated by Saddam with U.S. PRODDING) really had an effect on the Iranians; THEY are NOT the ones who want war!!!
THEY have SUFFERED ENOUGH and know what the price of war truly is!!!
Much unlike, unfortunately, a small, aggressive, oppressive little nation that resides in the same area.
