Iran uses plant as a message of defiance


"Heavy water contains a heavier hydrogen particle that allows a nuclear reactor to run on the natural uranium mined by Iran, without undergoing the enrichment process."
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"The UN deadline does not demand a halt to operations at the plant or a nearby reactor that Iran is building to use the heavy water."
Here is a more even handed and much more informative article without the headline spin: Iran opens heavy-water reactor, denies it's a threat. It tells us why it might actually be a threat ...
"nuclear experts note that heavy-water facilities are more useful for weapons because they produce lots of plutonium -- the preferred ingredient for missile warheads"
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BTW notice what comes up first in the following: google ahmednejad

Here is an interesting point of view ...
What then should the US and its allies do in the face of Iran's nuclear defiance? The answer is clear: concede defeat.
Iran has won this tussle and there is no point in pretending otherwise. Instead of trying to stop Tehran's nuclear program, the international community must bring Iran back into the civilised world. The only way to do that is to stop issuing empty threats and to start offering Tehran some real incentives for co-operative behaviour - non-aggression guarantees from the US and Israel, removal of the residual US economic sanctions dating back to the 1980s, and the prospect of steadily improving treatment for the nation in investment and trade.
He just dismissess a military stike as follows ...
The last argument against a military strike, but by no means the least one, brings us back to the oil issue. If the US or Israel were to bomb Iran's nuclear installations, Tehran would have the strongest possible reason to ramp up the oil price to $US150 a barrel or higher by closing or restricting traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

Now google buckley shame, ... that is a real accomplishment, even though Buckley's script has now become the dominant [tag drums of war] beat. I doubt that he should take credit. But because of his rep, he certainly contributed to the drone. I liked the beat of this because it had a different syncopation. Sorry i drummed a bit of the beat from your comment and all i could get was that "rubber ducker sucker fucker" sound. I still like the sound of "pour concrete down their wells" ... it is bold and booming ... with just a hint of reality. Too bad we have Texas oil men in the WH, to them oil is a sacred substance, not to be defiled.
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