I think the insight in your comments has been borne out by Iran’s efforts to hold on to more than 20% of its stock in the latest negotiations. I don’t that necessarily points to a military use for the uranium but the contest for “autonomy” between Iran and the West over any nuclear programme.

S.

My reference was only about the 20% threshold and the power to do it. I don’t think your question was naive because who trully knows what goes on in Iran. I do know power supply is a big issue and it is why I brought up the point. My reference to weapons grade uranium was about the West’s efforts to get their hands on enough of the 3.5% stock to make it impossible for Iran to pursue a bomb.

Another angle revolves around the fact Iran has been very hesitant to ship the stock out. One could surmize their ideal goal is to keep the stock they have and in a “perceived” act of good will they will purchase stocks of 20% stock. They would then of course demand the right to enrich the stock they have if they choose so. This allows Iran to be good guy, resolve the shortage on medial isotopes, and keep the existing stock so if they desire they have enough for the bomb. This is why the West is so demanding regarding the stock being sent out. Its all about control.

Frankly I believe the only reason the talks got this far is because of the domestic crisis. I think the regime rightly surmized they cannot fight both at the same time. Any other time or place I think they would still be telling us to kiss their behinds. It is sort of sad because the world media has largely forgotten the protests in favor of the juicy nuke stories.

Thx
Bill

Juan Cole states in the Baghdad Bombings article “Shaky revolutionary regimes like that of Baghdad often go to war to shore themselves up, and Iraq-Syria border clashes are not impossible.”

I am beginning to have a bad feeling about this ala “Guns of August”.
What if the Revolutionary Coup Leaders feel a conflict with the US is cure all for all their problems?

Pat Lang, a former Defense Intelligence Agency Director, posted the following on his blog 10/24/09:
“IAEA inspectors will have a look at the Qom enrichment site this weekend. Good. The surrepticious construction of this site badly undermined the position of those in the West who wish to find some way other than war to deal with Iran’s nuclear program. The site is the wrong size to be useful in enriching fuel for an electricity program. It was hardened and placed inside a defended military base of the IRGC. The simplest explanation for all that is that it part of a system for acquisition of weapons grade uranium.

At the same time the Iranian government seems to be struggling with an internal decision as to whether or not to ship its present stock of low enrichment uranium to some foreign country for fabrication into fuel rods for electric plants. Why is there an internal struggle? Is it because there are two parties; 1- The party that wants eventually to produce nuclear weapons and 2- The party that wants cheap electric power and better relations with the rest of the world (us).

The clock is running. All options are still on the table. This is not about justice. It is about life and death for many.”

And so a vain few can take the rest of us on their journey to darkness.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1069916887085&ref=

Pakistani police arrested 11 guards for illegally entering the country:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114163814
Yesterday two Sunni mullahs were banned from holding Friday prayers in Kurdistan (I have missed the link).
In any case this “republic” is playing on double standards since its beginning. Everyone who does not fit their agenda, is expendable:
http://www.iranian.com/main/blog/fred/expendable-moslems

“you, the governement of justice, shame on you, shame on you ” !!

The begining of the unrest in iranian administrations ?? few days ago it was in Ahvaz, the employes of a sugar factory unpaid for 10 months !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CLJfmkEqYM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CLJfmkEqYM

Manouchehr Mottaki’s comments are the first official indication that Iran may at least partly agree to a U.N.-drafted plan to ship much of its uranium to Russia for further enrichment and defuse the long running dispute over the country’s nuclear program.

Mottaki said a final decision over the plan will come “soon.”
http://tinyurl.com/yhnaoxp