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Possible false flag torpedo attacks on US carriers in the Persian gulf.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,330 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    stuar wrote: »
    Sorry namloc I posted a link you obviously didn't see, it was an edit, have a read of it there brother and smell the coffee.

    http://www.boards.ie/out?f=576&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defensereview.com%2Fus-aircraft-carriers-vulnerable-to-attack-the-ticking-time-bomb%2F&h=3420f

    Posting a link to an article that supports your own POV is all well and good but only when carriers start plunging to the bottom of the Gulf will you be right....until then "smell the coffee brother"!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Posting a link to an article that supports your own POV is all well and good but only when carriers start plunging to the bottom of the Gulf will you be right....until then "smell the coffee brother"!

    But it's a U.S. site brother, not Iranian, and they are questioning the US's defences against the missiles and torpedo's Iran currently have and manufacture.
    The conclusion on this US defence site is that with these same missiles and torpedo's the US can say goodbye to their multi billion $ super ships.

    Just read it and get up to speed on the subject before you claim Iran can't sink these big, slow super duper aircraft carriers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    Sure the carrier has lots of other ships with it I presume that's why they call the collective a Carrier Group, however they don't form some mystical invincible barrier and it only takes one decent hit to sink the thing. We can presume that the americans will retaliate by bombing Iran but unless they can turn the entire country to glass in the first few minutes and maintain total dominance they will loose more ships.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,330 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    stuar wrote: »
    But it's a U.S. site brother, not Iranian, and they are questioning the US's defences against the missiles and torpedo's Iran currently have and manufacture.
    The conclusion on this US defence site is that with these same missiles and torpedo's the US can say goodbye to their multi billion $ super ships.

    Just read it and get up to speed on the subject before you claim Iran can't sink these big, slow super duper aircraft carriers.

    I didn't say they couldn't, its just you make it sound like it's a pretty easy task....just roll up and shoot. As I say only when carriers start sinking at the hands of the Iranians, will you be right.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    Post on the military forum regarding this.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056525085


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭pacquiao


    USS Enterprise, the oldest carrier in the fleet, on her last legs, scheduled to be decommissioned next year is on her way to the Persian gulf.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    pacquiao wrote: »
    USS Enterprise, the oldest carrier in the fleet, on her last legs, scheduled to be decommissioned next year is on her way to the Persian gulf.

    The pieces are all falling into place.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    pacquiao wrote: »
    USS Enterprise, the oldest carrier in the fleet, on her last legs, scheduled to be decommissioned next year is on her way to the Persian gulf.
    If anything happens to that ship Spock will lose the head and give Ahmadinejad a Vulcan death grip.
    Jonny7 wrote: »
    The pieces are all falling into place.

    So Jonny you think there's something to this?

    Stolen from another site:
    The oldest ship in the fleet which is scheduled for decommission making a last voyage into the powderkeg of Hormuz in mid March. The month March being derived from Mars the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Ares: the god of War.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    The USS Abraham Lincoln has sailed through the strait into the Gulf without incident, French and British warships accompanied it.

    latimes.com Accompanied by British and French vessels, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, the first transit since Iran warned American ships this year against using the strategic waterway.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭pacquiao


    Iran Said to Seek Yen Oil Payment From India Amid Tighter Global Sanctions

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-22/iran-said-to-seek-yen-oil-payment-from-india-amid-tighter-global-sanctions.html

    The currency wars are heating up


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭davoxx


    pacquiao wrote: »
    Iran Said to Seek Yen Oil Payment From India Amid Tighter Global Sanctions

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-22/iran-said-to-seek-yen-oil-payment-from-india-amid-tighter-global-sanctions.html

    The currency wars are heating up
    yeah they've just signed their own death warrant ... war is now guaranteed ... unless china/india/russia stand up for iran.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    davoxx wrote: »
    yeah they've just signed their own death warrant ... war is now guaranteed ... unless china/india/russia stand up for iran.

    I think it's almost guaranteed too, the small print that it.

    Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, the Mayans were right. Global thermonuclear war. Bring it on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Jaafa


    Sneaky out boys. http://rt.com/news/iran-india-gold-oil-543/
    Sanctions dodge: India to pay gold for Iran oil, China may follow


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    Hmmm, that gold will be lead only painted right? :)

    If other conspiracy theories are correct, the Chinese Gold will be from the empty Fort Knox anyway, so US won't be happy either way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    there sems to be something more than a little Retarded about these sanctions.

    Will sanctions be placed on China or India or any of the other countries that faciltate Iranian Oil trade?

    I'd say hardly likely that either anone would have the balls to mention it to the Chinese and even less likely that the chinese would give a Snit.

    S


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Jaafa


    Tzar Chasm wrote: »
    there sems to be something more than a little Retarded about these sanctions.

    Will sanctions be placed on China or India or any of the other countries that faciltate Iranian Oil trade?

    I'd say hardly likely that either anone would have the balls to mention it to the Chinese and even less likely that the chinese would give a Snit.

    S

    They already mentioned to the Chinese, and they did pretty much say they don't give a snit, clearly India doesn't either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    so has anyone got a good reason why Europe should comply with these sanctions which from what I can see will do us a lot more economic damage than Iran.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    Tzar Chasm wrote: »
    so has anyone got a good reason why Europe should comply with these sanctions which from what I can see will do us a lot more economic damage than Iran.

    Well it looks like the Iranian's will pull the carpet out from beneath europes feet tomorrow and stop all exports of oil to Europe from next week, Europe wanted until 1st July to impose import sanctions but the Iranians thought why 6 months and not now, now Europe will have another headache on top of its fcuked up euro.
    3 mile que's to the local petrol station may be only a couple of weeks away all across the EU, all because of the US and Israel imposing their sanctions on Iran and the EU obeying their imperial masters.
    China and co will love all that extra black gold coming their way.
    I just hope Saudi Arabia can keep good on their promise to fill the gap although they won't have their 6 months to get their act together and start shipping all the desperate last minute orders from the EU.

    Basically the EU were going to cut off their own nose to spite their face (in 6 months), Iran will do it for them straight away.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    stuar wrote: »

    I think nuclear weapons will be used, the US already gave the green light for use in conventional warfare a long time ago using mini nukes.
    Jaafa wrote: »
    No they won't. There's no benefit for anyone to use them.

    U.S. bombs not strong enough to destroy Iran's nuclear program, report says
    However, speaking to the Wall Street Journal on Friday, U.S. officials estimated that even the 15-ton bombs would not be powerful to put a full stop to Iran's nuclear program, either because of some of the facilities' depth or their newly added fortifications.

    One unnamed officials said Pentagon analysts estimated that currently held conventional bombs would not be effective against Iran's enrichment plant in Fordo, adding that a tactical nuclear would be the only option if Washington sought to destroy the facility.

    "Once things go into the mountain, then really you have to have something that takes the mountain off," the official told the Wall Street Journal.
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-bombs-not-strong-enough-to-destroy-iran-s-nuclear-program-report-says-1.409607


    This idiot seems to think it would be criminal to risk another American life, so just Nuke Iran, nothing criminal about that!
    Ironically, if there ever were a time to use nuclear weapons, like radiation-reduced neutron bombs, to excise a cancer such as this, now is the moment. While our armed forces are now clear of the quagmire in Iraq, to sacrifice many more American lives would be criminal. And, a quick strike is necessary
    By:Larry Klayman is a former Justice Department prosecutor and the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch. His latest book is "Whores: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment."
    http://www.wnd.com/2011/12/382685/

    Here's an article from 2005:
    Revised US nuclear doctrine outlines preemption strategy
    WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to preempt an attack by a nation or terror group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons.
    To deter the use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, the Pentagon paper says preparations must be made to use nuclear weapons and show determination to use them ''if necessary to prevent or retaliate against WMD use."
    http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/09/11/revised_us_nuclear_doctrine_outlines_preemption_strategy/

    In a meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in February, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi expressed concern that Israel might use nuclear weapons in a preemptive strike on Iran.
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/italy-pm-said-not-even-obama-can-stop-israeli-attack-on-iran-wikileaks-cable-reveals-1.330274

    So next time you hear "ALL options are on the table" concerning Iran, remember a pre-emptive nuclear strike is one of those options.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    Exclusive: New Iranian commando team operating near US (TEHRAN, FNA) - The Fars News Agency has confirmed with the Republican Guards' North American Operations Command that a new elite Iranian commando team is operating in the US-Mexican border region. The primary day-to-day mission of the team, known as the Joint Special Operations Gulf of Mexico Task Force, or JSOG-MTF, is to mentor Mexican military units in the border areas in their war with the deadly drug cartels. The task force provides "highly trained personnel that excel in uncertain environments," Major Amir Arastoo, a spokesman for Republican Guards special operations forces in North America, tells Fars, and "seeks to confront irregular threats ..."

    The unit began its existence in mid-2009 - around the time that Washington rejected the Iranian leadership's wish for a new diplomatic dialogue. But whatever the task force does about the United States - or might do in the future - is a sensitive subject with the Republican Guards. "It would be inappropriate to discuss operational plans regarding any particular nation," Arastoo says about the US.
    http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NA31Ak05.html

    Read the rest of this story, I wonder how the US will like this.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    stuar wrote: »
    http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NA31Ak05.html

    Read the rest of this story, I wonder how the US will like this.

    You obviously didn't read the rest of the story. Or the very next line even.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    You obviously didn't read the rest of the story. Or the very next line even.

    Ohhh cop on will you, yea I just stopped there!


    I bet when you read my excerpt you thought "WTF, they can't be allowed do that".


    I was highlighting the hypocrisy in US foreign policy, imagine that was true, you'd be here shouting that the US should remove them by force, yet it's ok for the US to go and do whatever they like anywhere on the planet.


    Ohh and google the word sarcasm, it might help you in future.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,584 ✭✭✭weisses


    stuar wrote: »
    Ohhh cop on will you, yea I just stopped there!


    I bet when you read my excerpt you thought "WTF, they can't be allowed do that".


    I was highlighting the hypocrisy in US foreign policy, imagine that was true, you'd be here shouting that the US should remove them by force, yet it's ok for the US to go and do whatever they like anywhere on the planet.


    Ohh and google the word sarcasm, it might help you in future.

    Sooo do you want to make a point or just piss off people in general


    Do you know the difference between Sarcasm and being condescending ??


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    weisses wrote: »
    Sooo do you want to make a point or just piss off people in general


    Do you know the difference between Sarcasm and being condescending ??

    What's your point?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Jaafa


    Seeing as this the conspiracy forum I might as well exercise my licence to write crazy ideas. So here goes.

    Does anyone think that the main reason the EU decided to halt oil imports from Iran was so that in the event of a war in the near future, they wouldn't suddenly have oil cut off to their weakest countries, especially in the middle of their economic problems. (which may backfire now anyway)

    Because lets be honest here they know as well as the US Iran nuclear program doesn't have any weapons dimension to it anymore, so it wasn't to put pressure on Iran as they claim.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    Jaafa wrote: »
    Seeing as this the conspiracy forum I might as well exercise my licence to write crazy ideas. So here goes.

    Does anyone think that the main reason the EU decided to halt oil imports from Iran was so that in the event of a war in the near future, they wouldn't suddenly have oil cut off to their weakest countries, especially in the middle of their economic problems. (which may backfire now anyway)

    Because lets be honest here they know as well as the US Iran nuclear program doesn't have any weapons dimension to it anymore, so it wasn't to put pressure on Iran as they claim.


    I think you may have a point there, I think we can all agree there will be some sort of war, actually if it's war,it will be all out, no holds barred war, and the EU knowing this would need to plan ahead, so yeah, its what I'd do. Although as you said it's probabily going to shoot themselves in the foot, Iran still has its poker face and ain't giving much away.

    Concerning the nuclear bollocksology, they're enriching to 20%, as said before, the worldwide norm is 36% for research reactors or isotope reactors, for medical and scientific use, and 20% is the bare minimum that uranium purity is viable in such reactors, and 20% isn't weapons grade like the 90%+ stockpile a few blocks away on the globe.
    The inspectors are in there now and Iran has said if they are genuine they will co-operate, but I forsee US/Israel throwing boulders on the smooth path, demanding Ahmadinejad to lick Sharon's undercarriage while he sits there and vegetate's, sorry had a few beers!.

    Sorry thats a bit sick and degrading but no-matter how much co-operation Iran give will never be enough for the warmongers, who tear this fcuking world apart on their evil macho ways, this world is fcuked, children dying every few seconds of starvation, while Gazillions spent on mass destruction, is that fcuking normal?, are we as a race, the fcuking HUMAN RACE, going to allow a few men decide our destiny?........Think About It, do me or you wanna kill somebody?, do we want to watch even more suffering, blasted as "FREEDOM", mostly freedom from actually living or having a chance to even be born, there's some evil sh1t happening in front of our eye's and some don't see it, or reject it, or explain it, or inspect it.
    Where the fcuk are we going?, anyone know?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    stuar wrote: »
    Where the fcuk are we going?, anyone know?

    There are six men who want to own the world and have abject obedience from the remaining population. The population is too large for them to live in comfort so they seek to cull.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    stuar wrote: »

    Concerning the nuclear bollocksology, they're enriching to 20%, as said before, the worldwide norm is 36% for research reactors or isotope reactors, for medical and scientific use, and 20% is the bare minimum that uranium purity is viable in such reactors, and 20% isn't weapons grade like the 90%+ stockpile a few blocks away on the globe.
    The inspectors are in there now and Iran has said if they are genuine they will co-operate, but I forsee US/Israel throwing boulders on the smooth path, demanding Ahmadinejad to lick Sharon's undercarriage while he sits there and vegetate's, sorry had a few beers!.

    Sorry thats a bit sick and degrading but no-matter how much co-operation Iran give will never be enough for the warmongers, who tear this fcuking world apart on their evil macho ways, this world is fcuked, children dying every few seconds of starvation, while Gazillions spent on mass destruction, is that fcuking normal?, are we as a race, the fcuking HUMAN RACE, going to allow a few men decide our destiny?........Think About It, do me or you wanna kill somebody?, do we want to watch even more suffering, blasted as "FREEDOM", mostly freedom from actually living or having a chance to even be born, there's some evil sh1t happening in front of our eye's and some don't see it, or reject it, or explain it, or inspect it.
    Where the fcuk are we going?, anyone know?

    Enriching up to 3% to 5% (reactor grade) accounts for about 75% of the total effort
    Any country going up to 20% enrichment is nine-tenths of the way to weapons grade.
    Going up to 80+% is relatively easy from there.
    Research reactors use up to 93% enriched Uranium.
    Iran could hypothetically build a bomb within months. Hence the concern.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Jaafa


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    Enriching up to 3% to 5% (reactor grade) accounts for about 75% of the total effort
    Any country going up to 20% enrichment is nine-tenths of the way to weapons grade.
    Going up to 80+% is relatively easy from there.
    Research reactors use up to 93% enriched Uranium.
    Iran could hypothetically build a bomb within months. Hence the concern.

    Johnny I already explained to you 20% is not 9 tenths of the way to a proper viable bomb, its way off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    Jaafa wrote: »
    Johnny I already explained to you 20% is not 9 tenths of the way to a proper viable bomb, its way off.

    You never came back to me

    From that thread, my last post was..

    "It's relative not literal.

    To enrich to 4% (close to reactor grade) apparently takes the bulk of the effort (about three-quarters to put it in a figure)

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...78R25C20110928
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/juli...r-iran-israel1

    I would discount the extreme projections of 2 months, because Iran also needs simultaneous tech such as detonators, initiators, reflectors (some of the tech it was researching in 2003). Six months to one year is technically possible.
    "

    If a country wants to weaponise, 75% of the total effort (tech, infrastructure, research, etc) is required just to get to reactor grade (3 to 5%)

    In fact I've read that it takes 80% of the effort to going from natural uranium (0.75% U-235) to just 3.5% enriched.

    Here's another explanation - a bit simpler
    http://news.discovery.com/tech/nuclear-bomb-iran-weapons-111109.html
    "Right now Iran is almost at 20 percent (enrichment)," Squassoni said, adding that the first step of enrichment, from 3 percent to 20 percent represents the "lion's share" of the work. After that, she says, getting from 20 to 90 percent, the process is repetitive and not as hard"

    It seems plausible that reaching 20% enrichment is nine-tenths of the effort required.

    Enrichment to weapons-grade and the actual tech required to use that weapons grade material are two different things. One can be quantified, the other is more difficult.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    gbee wrote: »
    There are six men who want to own the world and have abject obedience from the remaining population. The population is too large for them to live in comfort so they seek to cull.

    can you elaborate on this a bit?

    I'd love to know who these fellas are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Jaafa


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    You never came back to me

    From that thread, my last post was..

    "It's relative not literal.

    To enrich to 4% (close to reactor grade) apparently takes the bulk of the effort (about three-quarters to put it in a figure)

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...78R25C20110928
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/juli...r-iran-israel1

    I would discount the extreme projections of 2 months, because Iran also needs simultaneous tech such as detonators, initiators, reflectors (some of the tech it was researching in 2003). Six months to one year is technically possible.
    "

    If a country wants to weaponise, 75% of the total effort (tech, infrastructure, research, etc) is required just to get to reactor grade (3 to 5%)

    In fact I've read that it takes 80% of the effort to going from natural uranium (0.75% U-235) to just 3.5% enriched.

    Here's another explanation - a bit simpler
    http://news.discovery.com/tech/nuclear-bomb-iran-weapons-111109.html
    "Right now Iran is almost at 20 percent (enrichment)," Squassoni said, adding that the first step of enrichment, from 3 percent to 20 percent represents the "lion's share" of the work. After that, she says, getting from 20 to 90 percent, the process is repetitive and not as hard"

    It seems plausible that reaching 20% enrichment is nine-tenths of the effort required.

    Enrichment to weapons-grade and the actual tech required to use that weapons grade material are two different things. One can be quantified, the other is more difficult.

    My apologies for not getting back.

    None of your links appear to be working.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Jaafa


    Jonny7 wrote: »

    Unfortunately neither of those articles come anywhere close to supporting your claim that 20% enrichment equals 90% of the way to a real bomb.

    The reuters article is pretty much 50/50 on the issue, the closest it comes is
    The West fears that Iran's move last year to enrich uranium to a fissile purity of almost 20 percent -- up from the 3.5 percent normally needed for reactors -- takes it significantly closer to the 90 percent level needed for arms.
    Which if you take in context, of course 3.5 to 20% is significantly closer, but still a long way off, 90%.

    The guardian article is an odd one for you to post as it pretty much says the IAEA report was pointless, and again the closest it comes to supporting your point is the fact 20% enrichment is going to start/has started in Fordow, which as we know, is now crawling with IAEA monitors. And even after all that the article still concludes that
    So Iran has the raw materials and the skills necessary to make a small arsenal, perhaps in a few months, if it decided to "break out", which means leave the NPT and throw out the IAEA which is carefully monitoring its uranium stocks and its enrichment activities.

    It's seems your argument relies on the last article, so I'd advise you to find that before continuing this debate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    Jaafa wrote: »
    Unfortunately neither of those articles come anywhere close to supporting your claim that 20% enrichment equals 90% of the way to a real bomb.

    Those links relate to my line below
    "I would discount the extreme projections of 2 months, because Iran also needs simultaneous tech such as detonators, initiators, reflectors (some of the tech it was researching in 2003). Six months to one year is technically possible.""

    Because in the other thread we were projecting how soon Iran could hypothetically weaponise. I was referring to a posters estimate of "years". I quoted my old post as a reference because it was the last post in our discussion now.

    The exact claim in question is by a nuclear expert.

    "By the time the uranium is enriched to 20 percent, nine-tenths of the effort to reach weapons grade has been expended"

    I am backing this claim

    Where in this thread have I claimed that "20% enrichment equals 90% of the way to a real bomb."?

    If its a genuine misunderstanding its grand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Jaafa


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    Those links relate to my line below
    "I would discount the extreme projections of 2 months, because Iran also needs simultaneous tech such as detonators, initiators, reflectors (some of the tech it was researching in 2003). Six months to one year is technically possible.""

    Because in the other thread we were projecting how soon Iran could hypothetically weaponise. I was referring to a posters estimate of "years". I quoted my old post as a reference because it was the last post in our discussion now.

    The exact claim in question is by a nuclear expert.

    "By the time the uranium is enriched to 20 percent, nine-tenths of the effort to reach weapons grade has been expended"

    I am backing this claim

    Where in this thread have I claimed that "20% enrichment equals 90% of the way to a real bomb."?

    If its a genuine misunderstanding its grand.

    Perhaps it is a misunderstanding then, by reaching weapons grade I assumed you meant they'd have a bomb ready, I didn't think you weren't including other necessary equipment too.


  • Site Banned Posts: 8,331 ✭✭✭Brown Bomber


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    .
    Iran could hypothetically build a bomb within months. Hence the concern.
    For arguments sake let's pretent that this isn't nonsense. They simply couldn't "build a bomb" without a bomb making facility after diversion. Where is this facility? They simply cannot enrich to weapon grade levels on their known sites as everything is tightly monitored and recorded by the IAEA. So where is this secret enrichment plant?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    20% is the bare minimum for a research reactor, for medical purposes, such as treating cancer.
    The IAEA team have left, Iran is open and honest about it's nuclear program, I just hope the IAEA are honest and not have Iran ban them.
    Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

    A 2008 report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by the then Director-General, Mohamed ElBaradei, thanked Iran's honest cooperation in removing ambiguities about its past activities and confirmed that Iran has answered all the six outstanding questions of the world body about the nuclear material and activities that it had had in the past.
    http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010173029

    Iran have many agreements with the IAEA:
    Multilateral Agreements

    http://ola.iaea.org/factSheets/CountryDetails.asp?country=IR


    They don't hide anything.
    The AEOI announced in August 2011 that it plans to transfer the production of 20-percent-enriched uranium from the Natanz nuclear site to the Fordo enrichment facility under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and triple the production of the 20-percent-enriched uranium.

    The Islamic Republic needs the 20-percent-enriched uranium for the production of nuclear fuel plates required at the Tehran Research Reactor for producing radioisotopes for cancer treatment.
    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/219899.html

    Former IAEA Official Dismisses Report on Iran as Unauthentic
    Robert Kelley, a former director at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a Bloomberg article that a two-page document, first printed by the Times and used by the agency its November assessment of Iran's nuclear work, lacks authenticity.
    http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010171137


    This is what a former IAEA inspector Robert Kelley had to say:
    I am speaking up about this now because, as a member of the IAEA’s Iraq Action Team in 2003, I learned firsthand how withholding the facts can lead to bloodshed. Having known the details then, though I was not allowed to speak, I feel a certain shared responsibility for the war that killed more than 4,000 Americans and more than 100,000 Iraqis. A private citizen today, I hope to help ensure the facts are clear before the U.S. takes further steps that could lead, intentionally or otherwise, to a new conflagration, this time in Iran.
    Today’s Regrets

    I regret now that ElBaradei did not speak out more vehemently, before the U.S. went to war, about the 1995 faked documents, additional forgeries provided to the agency in 2003 and other falsifications. A good man, he had been an international lawyer with years of experience dealing with half- truths and prevarications. But he was trapped between telling the whole story and overtly insulting the U.S., which supplied 25 percent of the IAEA’s funding.
    For example, ElBaradei labeled documents provided to the IAEA about Iraq’s attempts to acquire uranium from Africa “not authentic.” A better description would have been “blatant and amateurish forgeries.”

    (Robert Kelley, a nuclear engineer, was a director at the IAEA, where he worked for nine years. He gained his weapons expertise over 30 years at the University of California’s nuclear-weapons laboratories. The opinions expressed are his own.)
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-11/iran-nuclear-weapons-charge-is-no-slam-dunk-commentary-by-robert-kelley.html



    RT, I know before somebody points it out, and infowars, but it's interesting if you can be bothered to watch.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucIDWtaKcko

    Here's Robert Kelley former IAEA inspector, he seem's a reasonable man.
    Robert Kelley: 'Misleading Iran report proves nothing'
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gyN-3H4uRg

    An IAEA report on Israel.
    Text of the Director General’s letter to IAEA Member States
    (Dispatched on 7 April 2010)
    Sir/Madam,
    I have the honour to refer to the resolution entitled “Israeli nuclear capabilities” that was
    adopted by the 53rd General Conference on 18 September 2009 (GC(53)/RES/17 – enclosed).
    The resolution,
    inter alia, expressed “concern about the Israeli nuclear capabilities”, called upon
    Israel “to accede to the NPT and place all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive IAEA safeguards”,
    urged “the IAEA Director General to work with the concerned States towards achieving that end” and
    “report on the implementation of this resolution to the Board of Governors and the General Conference
    at its fifty fourth regular session”.
    In this regard, it would be helpful to me if Your Excellency could inform me of any views that
    your Government might have with respect to meeting the objectives of the resolution GC(53)/RES/17.
    I am writing similarly to the Foreign Ministers of the other Member States of the IAEA. I expect
    that the replies that I would receive to these letters will help me to report on the matter to the Board of
    Governors and to the General Conference at its fifty-fourth regular session.
    An early response to this letter would therefore be much appreciated.
    Yours sincerely,
    Yukiya Amano
    http://www.iaea.org/About/Policy/GC/GC54/GC54Documents/English/gc54-14_en.pdf

    Taken together all of the above show who the threat is in reality.






  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    This is an interesting take on whats behind the rising tension between the US and Iran.

    Petrodollar pumping US policy on Iran, backfire looms.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    stuar wrote: »
    The IAEA team have left, Iran is open and honest about it's nuclear program, I just hope the IAEA are honest and not have Iran ban them.

    Eh, no it hasn't been, that's the whole issue.
    They don't hide anything.

    Yes they do.
    Taken together all of the above show who the threat is in reality.


    No, the above is your own cherry-picked information, including sources such as Russia Today to back your own narrative on the situation.

    I'm not saying its all completely false, I'm just saying you're presenting one side and a naive view.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    Eh, no it hasn't been, that's the whole issue.



    Yes they do.




    No, the above is your own cherry-picked information, including sources such as Russia Today to back your own narrative on the situation.

    I'm not saying its all completely false, I'm just saying you're presenting one side and a naive view.

    Erm compared to Israel they are very honest and out-straight, and they are entitled by international law to enrich uranium.

    What do they hide?, links etc.

    Maybe you give your view and counter mine, it's not completely false?, is it slightly false?, of there is anything you don't see as truthful please explain what and why?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    JERUSALEM — A senior Israeli official said on Thursday that the missile testing site near Tehran that was destroyed in a huge explosion three months ago was developing missiles with a range of some 6,000 miles aimed at the United States.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/world/middleeast/israel-warns-iranian-missiles-might-threaten-us.html

    It's getting more like Saddams mushroom cloud by the day, remember this?

    "On NBC's "Meet the Press," Vice President Dick Cheney accused Saddam of moving aggressively to develop nuclear weapons over the past 14 months to add to his stockpile of chemical and biological arms.
    "Increasingly, we believe that the United States may well become the target of those activities," Cheney said.
    "And what we've seen recently that has raised our level of concern to the current state of unrest ... is that he now is trying, through his illicit procurement network, to acquire the equipment he needs to be able to enrich uranium -- specifically, aluminum tubes," Cheney said, referring to one of the elements for making nuclear weapons."
    http://articles.cnn.com/2002-09-08/politics/iraq.debate_1_nuclear-weapons-top-nuclear-scientists-aluminum-tubes?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS

    Here we go again, same lies, same believers, hopefully more sceptics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    stuar wrote: »
    What do they hide?, links etc.

    In February 2010, the IAEA issued a report scolding Iran for failing to explain purchases of sensitive technology as well as secret tests of high-precision detonators and modified designs of missile cones to accommodate larger payloads. Such experiments are closely associated with atomic warheads.[143]
    In May 2010, the IAEA issued a report that Iran had declared production of over 2.5 metric tons of low-enriched uranium, which would be enough if further enriched to make two nuclear weapons, and that Iran has refused to answer inspectors’ questions on a variety of activities, including what the agency called the “possible military dimensions” of Iran's nuclear program.[144][145]
    In July 2010, Iran barred two IAEA inspectors from entering the country. The IAEA rejected Iran's reasons for the ban and said it fully supported the inspectors, which Tehran has accused of reporting wrongly that some nuclear equipment was missing.[146]
    In August 2010, the IAEA said Iran has started using a second set of 164 centrifuges linked in a cascade, or string of machines, to enrich uranium to up to 20% at its Natanz pilot fuel enrichment plan.[147]
    In November of 2011, IAEA officials identified a "large explosive containment vessel" inside Parchin.[148] The IAEA later assessed that Iran has been conducting experiments to develop nuclear weapons capability.[149]


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran
    Maybe you give your view and counter mine, it's not completely false?, is it slightly false?, of there is anything you don't see as truthful please explain what and why?

    It's not an objective view of the situation.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    From your link:
    "Iran also claims that it was forced to resort to secrecy after US pressure caused several of its nuclear contracts with foreign governments to fall through."

    The US and Israel has continually sabotaged the Iranian nuclear program, supplying through 3rd parties faulty components, assassinating scientists, black ops inside Iran, falsifying "damning documents" with no evidence to back them up, and you believe all the crap the US/Israel spout, even after they have been shown to use the exact same techniques numerous times before, the US sanctions on Iraq caused the deaths of 500,000 children which Madeline Albright thought was "worth it", while Saddam sh1t on golden toilet seats, then they decided to liberate the people of Iraq from the tyrant, who wasn't responsible for the half million children's deaths. Look at the brilliant job they've done for the people of Iraq, truly marvellous by all US accounts.

    Iran are a proud sovereign nation that hold elections, exercise their right to enrich uranium to whatever percentage they require for their research reactors.
    Israel and the US are much more of a torment and threat to Iran than Iran ever will be to them, some good points were raised in the link by Duiske a few posts back, the petrodollar, the US don't like people trading oil that doesn't have a US$ attached.

    Jonny do you really unquestionably believe ALL you hear from the US/Israeli governments, after their histories of lies, fabrications and falsehoods that are hard to defend, or is it a case of memory loss.

    What harm have Iran done so far?, supporting resistance fighters against aggressors, you should check the CIA/Mossad/MI5/6 lists, actually you can't but they have been behind uncountable deaths and destruction for quite a while, including the Iranian coup that ousted the democratically elected leader of Iran and installed a US puppet Shah, had they not done that maybe Israel wouldn't be "the only democracy in the middle east".

    Israel by the way have harassed, murdered/slaughtered their way to "democracy" these are irrefutable facts, and stolen land is a very bad example of a democracy.

    What Israel constantly unleashes on Palestinians are war crime after war crime, yet mention this and your "anti-Semitic" which is boll0x really as 99% of Jews are NOT Semitic.
    http://www.discerningtoday.org/members/Digest/2001digest/mar/are_the_jews_really_israelites.htm

    Iran should be allowed be, the US and it's allies should concentrate more on fixing this world instead of destroying it more, but that's always going to be a big no-no for these ruling megalomaniacs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    stuar wrote: »
    From your link:
    "Iran also claims that it was forced to resort to secrecy after US pressure caused several of its nuclear contracts with foreign governments to fall through."

    They rejected Russia's proposals to enrich uranium for them.
    The US and Israel has continually sabotaged the Iranian nuclear program, supplying through 3rd parties faulty components, assassinating scientists, black ops inside Iran, falsifying "damning documents" with no evidence to back them up, and you believe all the crap the US/Israel spout, even after they have been shown to use the exact same techniques numerous times before, the US sanctions on Iraq caused the deaths of 500,000 children which Madeline Albright thought was "worth it", while Saddam sh1t on golden toilet seats, then they decided to liberate the people of Iraq from the tyrant, who wasn't responsible for the half million children's deaths. Look at the brilliant job they've done for the people of Iraq, truly marvellous by all US accounts.

    That's your own personal view of the world.
    Iran are a proud sovereign nation that hold elections, exercise their right to enrich uranium to whatever percentage they require for their research reactors.

    Yeah but the Iranian regime are a bunch of assholes who fixed the elections and had no problem oppressing the populace after.

    They are an intrusive censoring police state.

    Their own support is based on using the foreign bogeyman from abroad to cover their failing domestic policies.

    They try to run the country based on medieval religious laws.

    Imagine the US, run by Palin for 20 years, and you're not even close.

    So considering the forum we are on, considering your principles on the matter, I find your backing of them a little ironic...

    it appears to simply be a case of "my enemies enemy is my friend".

    No offense, but that's how it comes across.
    Israel and the US are much more of a torment and threat to Iran than Iran ever will be to them, some good points were raised in the link by Duiske a few posts back, the petrodollar, the US don't like people trading oil that doesn't have a US$ attached.

    We can't change decades of history and events.

    If Iran pursues a weapon, chances are there'll be war in the region, probably best to try and avoid that as it benefits no one but neocons and war profiteers.
    Jonny do you really unquestionably believe ALL you hear from the US/Israeli governments, after their histories of lies, fabrications and falsehoods that are hard to defend, or is it a case of memory loss.

    I rarely if ever use Israeli sources on here. Don't pin the "sheep" moniker on anyone who doesn't agree with you.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    stuar wrote: »
    the US don't like people trading oil that doesn't have a US$ attached.

    Something which Saddam Hussein, Moammar Gaddafi and Dominique Strauss-Kahn have in common.

    IMF calls for dollar alternative

    U.N. to let Iraq sell oil for euros, not dollars

    Gadhafi’s Gold-money Plan Would Have Devastated Dollar


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭stuar


    Just on the Iran subject, here is a documentary about normal life in Iran, I think it's fair and balanced and shows a human side to Iran that not too many would believe exists.

    Iranian's love their children too and people should look at this and then at some facts about how Iran became Iran and wonder why all this beautiful heritage be destroyed, many killed, maimed left with memories........

    Ohh yeah. it,s because Iran wants to have nuclear power when all their natural resources run out, they want to be independant and self sufficent in cancer treatment and other scientific area's that requires higher purity uranium for research.

    This video is worth a watch and shows an Iran many would be ignorant to, an american documentary maker in Iran, wasn't stoned to death, attacked on the street, met plenty of quite friendly people, these are the real people who will suffer from santions, bombs, war, these are the collateral.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭davoxx


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    Yeah but the Iranian regime are a bunch of assholes who fixed the elections and had no problem oppressing the populace after.

    They are an intrusive censoring police state.

    Their own support is based on using the foreign bogeyman from abroad to cover their failing domestic policies.

    They try to run the country based on medieval religious laws.

    Imagine the US, run by Palin for 20 years, and you're not even close.

    So considering the forum we are on, considering your principles on the matter, I find your backing of them a little ironic...

    it appears to simply be a case of "my enemies enemy is my friend".

    No offense, but that's how it comes across.
    No offense, but that's your own personal view of the Iran.

    Don't just pin the "assholes" moniker on anyone who you don't like.


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    If Iran pursues a weapon, chances are there'll be war in the region, probably best to try and avoid that as it benefits no one but neocons and war profiteers.
    and i wonder who they are? :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    Anyone who had a ten year year with Saddam, can't have been all bad, that said, Iran accepted Saddam's air force jets for safe keeping at the outbreak of WWIV the Desert Strom fistfight.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭jackiebaron


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    They rejected Russia's proposals to enrich uranium for them.



    That's your own personal view of the world.



    Yeah but the Iranian regime are a bunch of assholes who fixed the elections and had no problem oppressing the populace after.

    They are an intrusive censoring police state.

    Their own support is based on using the foreign bogeyman from abroad to cover their failing domestic policies.

    They try to run the country based on medieval religious laws.

    Imagine the US, run by Palin for 20 years, and you're not even close.

    So considering the forum we are on, considering your principles on the matter, I find your backing of them a little ironic...

    it appears to simply be a case of "my enemies enemy is my friend".

    No offense, but that's how it comes across.



    We can't change decades of history and events.

    If Iran pursues a weapon, chances are there'll be war in the region, probably best to try and avoid that as it benefits no one but neocons and war profiteers.



    I rarely if ever use Israeli sources on here. Don't pin the "sheep" moniker on anyone who doesn't agree with you.


    Wasn't like that when I was there. But of course you'd know better because the propaganda machine told you so.


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