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Iran Says It Finds "Unexpectedly High Uranium Reserve"
While we await for the Russian secret service to leak photos of Iran's Revolutionary Guard in Syria, thereby stirring the pot on the latest and greatest proxy war in the middle east, one which would promptly disintegrate any last remaining shred of "victory" from Obama's alleged coup in restoring relations with an Iran which couldn't even wait for the signing of the "Nuclear" deal before turning its back on Obama and siding with Putin in Syria, we were particularly amused to learn that just yesterday Iran announced it has discovered an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium and will soon begin extracting the radioactive element at a new mine.
This stunning admission was made by the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said on Saturday, just 48 hours after the Iran Nuclear deal squeezed through the US Senate with the tiniest of margins.
Far less stunning, if quite more humorous was Reuters' tongue-in-cheek remark that "the comments cast doubt on previous assessments from some Western analysts who said the country had a low supply and sooner or later would need to import uranium, the raw material needed for its nuclear program."
Any indication Iran could become more self-sufficient will be closely watched by world powers, which reached a landmark deal with Tehran in July over its program. They had feared the nuclear activities were aimed at acquiring the capability to produce atomic weapons - something denied by Tehran.
If yesterday's news is any consolation, all those who warned Iran was merely playing possum and that any concerns its resources were dwindling, was a fabrication meant to finally pass a deal years in the making.
And while Iran did announce that it would no longer need to import foreign Uranium, it did not felt the need to expand on the quality or quantity of the discovery: Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted by state news agency IRNA: "I cannot announce (the level of) Iran's uranium mine reserves. The important thing is that before aerial prospecting for uranium ores we were not too optimistic, but the new discoveries have made us confident about our reserves."
What we do know is that Salehi said uranium exploration had covered almost two-thirds of Iran and would be complete in the next four years.
The fear of course, is that while uranium can be used for civilian power production and scientific purposes, it is also a key ingredient in nuclear weapons. And now that Iran has been given a carte blanche to extract and process it as it sees fit (just like Wall Street it was told to police itself, please), concerns are that it will do just that.
The U.S. State Department has been clear in that it would maintain some supervision, saying any new reserves of uranium discovered in Iran will be under the same monitoring as existing mines under the nuclear agreement. "Any violation of that commitment would be met with the appropriate response,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement.
However, it remains to be seen how effective, if at all, outside policing can be. As Reuters adds, after decades of effort, Iran - which has consistently said its program is for peaceful purposes - has achieved a full nuclear fuel cycle, ranging from the extraction of uranium ore to enrichment and production of fuel rods for nuclear reactors.
Sanctions on companies taking part in Iran's uranium mining industry will be lifted when the agreement is implemented.
Salehi said uranium extraction was set to begin at a new mine in the central province of Yazd, according to IRNA.
One of the key drivers for a rapid deal was the claim by some Western analysts have previously said that Iran was close to exhausting its supply of yellowcake - or raw uranium - and that mining it domestically was not cost-efficient.
A report published in 2013 by U.S. think-tanks Carnegie Endowment and the Federation of American Scientists said the scarcity and low quality of Iran's uranium resources compelled it "to rely on external sources of natural and processed uranium".
It added: "Despite the Iranian leadership's assertions to the contrary, Iran's estimated uranium endowments are nowhere near sufficient to supply its planned nuclear program."
Iran has repeatedly denied overseas media reports that it has tried to import uranium from countries like Kazakhstan and Zimbabwe.
As it turns out, Iran wasn't lying: it was merely waiting for just the right moment to announce to the world it had "just discovered an unexpectedly high uranium reserve."
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*Makes Popcorn...sits back*
pours a chivas....sits back
Chivas ??
Make mine George Dickel
http://www.georgedickel.com/default.aspx
Reserves?? So what? Another idiot nonstory from zh about iran.
How much uranium for a nuke vs. reactor?? Anyone?
Aus has largest known reserves, Canada maybe has largest reserves (unexplored) so...?
It's a wonderful irony that Persia sits atop some of the richest uranium deposits in the world. Afghanistan is another with some of the ripest lodes of rare-earth elements. Hmmm... could that be one of the reasons why the israelis and Americans want to... nah - couldn't be.
"As it turns out, Iran wasn't lying: it was merely waiting for just the right moment to announce to the world it had 'just discovered an unexpectedly high uranium reserve.'"
And so, what's wrong with that?
"Take that!", you dumb, fuckin' kneegrow.
Like we found this shit just by luck, minutes after Yomomma signed the treaty.
Allah be prasied.
This just in: Iran now has aluminum tubes.
First weapons grade deposit ever discovered!!!
Luckily the inspectors missed it . . .
In an interview with the lead miner on the discovery team, Hasn Ben Sober, new details come to light. While driving the exploritory drift, a large void was cut into. The most amazing geologic formations were encountered. The high grade ore bearing formation looked remarkably like a bank of centerfuges.
All lands have some resource. If it isnt oil, its uranium, if it isnt uranium, its water, gold, coal, iron, rich farmland, but only oil is strategic.
Australia and Canada are not Islamic extremist countries whose mission it is to destroy non believers.
Hope they don't make an iranium nuclear bomb outta this, man.
Australia and Canada are not Islamic extremist countries whose mission it is to destroy non believers.
When was the last time Iran attacked a country? Waiting...
Aus and Canada are both conducting (internationally illegal) airstrikes in Syria.
Israel which has no nukes wink wink wink but has been gathering uranium in the negev for many decades:
Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.
Ayelet Shaked - likud appointed justice minister (current)
Don't hear anyone whining about those calls for genocide from a nuke armed nation which has invaded neighbours.
Australia nor Canada are not non-Islamic extremist countries whose mission it is not to destroy non-non-believers.
"Nuclear facilty sites are approximate"
Is this shorthand for 'we make shit up to fool the rubes'?
"Not to be used for Navigation"
Wow, they just found it?
amazing
<sarc> How lucky for them! Imagine if they found it before the deal was signed, that would really suck! </sarc>
We have to pass the treaty to find out what's in the ground.
Jumbotron, that was priceless! lmfao
If you want your nukes, you can keep your nukes.
At this point, what difference does it make?
Ready my lips. No new deposits.
Why would you "announce" this? Seriously, why not just keep your mouth shut and mine it all, quietly?
Iran is telling you America is run by psychopaths.
They already knew, probably everybody involved. Obama told them "shhhhhhhhh, not yet". Minutes after the Dems got there votes together he called them up and says...."ok go ahead"
And the amazing thing is that THIS uranium is like 90%, packaged, and just in the dirt.
Who woulda guess it would occur naturally like that?
The world is certainly full of suprises.
Do the packages have UPC/QR Codes? If so, please post them...
nope they were US MIL SPEC numbers
We're shocked - shocked! - to find uranium in this mine.
Is it wrong to lie to the devil?
Where does US get the right to choose which countries get nukes and which don't?
They had no problem setting up the first Nuclear Power in the ME.
Because the US is all about the equality of people.
my thoughts exactly! Who is the only country to use nuclear weapons on another country? And the US gets to decide who gets them & who doesn't? Oh, I forgot. We're exceptional!
Japan and Ukraine, unfortunately on themselves.
It is the Bankster gene. It makes us exceptional....
Its a natural right granted by god. Prove me wrong.
Oh God, cue Netanyahu with that stupid bomb cartoon.
Unexpected.
Yes, they had economists looking, not miners/physicists.
They have the right to mine whatever resources they have but this is still stupid on their part. Do they have to pull this shit now and provide more justification for the dogs of WWIII to be unleashed? They couldn't wait a little while? They have to brag about how big the reserves are? Idiots!
Could it be... Obama wrong on the Iran deal?
Tell me again why it is so important that Obama gets this deal done?
Oh yeah, he's getting some vig off the $100 billion getting freed up
His chief adviser Valerie Jarrett is Iranian
Íf I wanted a dog Id get a bitch' Satan
Legacy Material
"Iran which couldn't even wait for the signing of the "Nuclear" deal before turning its back on Obama and siding with Putin in Syria;"
Ahem... what did you expect after the USA masterminded a coup with the British in 1953 to topple Iran's elected Prime Minister and then proceeded to submit the country to years of mindless sanctions, kisses?
Not to mention the masterminding of the Iraq war on Iran.
There is a pattern to their warped logic: Failure is not possible. Try harder the next time.
After what has been done to them (Iran), by their benevolent Western world masters, since at least 1953, in addition to what was done (pilfered, plundered and color-revolutioned) from Russia after the fall of the Soviet, it must be an 'interesting' position for these nations to observe the confused and crumbling state of the West. Confounded by its own political correctness, unable to make decisive moves, but instead reduced to endless - bordering on comical, 'negotiating' strategies, all the while wagging a finger at its 'subordinates' around the world, that the U.S. will 'sail the seas at its discretion' - i.e., you don't bow to our $USD and we'll send a carrier group (or a battalion of M1-A tanks to your borders) to make sure you still understand who $rules...
What a Supremely Pathetic ending to a once-great nation.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQcaQ657O0CwoaG4ZLP...
There is hardly a country or player in the middle east that hasn't been fucked over,turned over,betrayed or bombed by the USA its not the Iranian signature thats worthless.
It is of my opinion that Iran would never nuke israel let alone anyone else unless their own lives were threatened...Same as me, I have a firearm but it will only be used for sporting practice unless someone tries to harm me or loved ones. If Iran used a nuke, they would be committing their own suicide and their entire country would be molten glass within hours. And dont let this 7 virgins thing make you think twice. It is just propaganda used by those in control to control their people...The higher ups do not want to die. Why isnt the west making a big deal out of north korea having a nuke? The north korean leaders are friggin insane...
The unstated fear of the NATO allies is that a nuclear armed Iran would retaliate in kind against a nuclear attack on them.
Personally, I don't think they would or have to. A barrage of well placed Russian or Chinese non-nuclear missiles would be just as effective.
I agree with your comment 42
Because the US couldn't even get North Korea before they had nukes without losing Seoul. + North Korea provides a nice buffer between the US and China.
Nobody can be free of banksters without nuclear weapons to protect them.
Everybody needs nuclear weapons as long as the world has bankers.
You want a nuclear free world. Arrest Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon.
Finnish Nuclear Engineer Arto Lauri explains Uranium Mines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQdB3myW9M
Whom?
Oh, one of those Gundersen expert types that pop in from the ether whenever an respected expert is called for.
I am kind of looking forward to Iran's Chernobyl event.
It took them three fucking days to put out a oil truck fire as they don't have the infrastructure to deal with this kind of stuff.
As for Israel taking Iran out, I hope Israel makes it like a Michael Corleone christening and every Ayatollah gets poofed.
Stuxnet II
congrats! now the concept is open to thousands hackers...
how many you think have your country's best interests?
maybe you should learn a little about firstly....
https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/11/02/the-man-who-found-stuxnet-sergey-ulasen-in-the-spotlight/
is it important to you?
might you have enough decrepit GE design?
and that fukasima thing upwind...
better worry about your own country
Iran has not started any war in over 200 years
Right, and ISIS is not an american war.
If I were Iran, I would want a nuke too. It guarantees safety from invasion or attack.
That still doesn't explain why Obama is tripping over himself to get a deal done.
I swear, Obama must be getting a huge payoff. There can be no other explanation.
The impetus is clear enough. Obama needs something resembling a 'win' for his 8 year 'legacy' to avoid this:
http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/o-presidential-libr...
Nuclear power is one of the best future energy sources. Therefore Iran have a great opportunity here to become richer nation and to improve its wealth, just like other countries by selling oil etc.
lol. Who needs centrifuges?
Apparently the Iranians don't need to "self inspect" their nuclear program, as highly enriched Uranium deposits are naturally occuring.
I think you may have misunderstood this article Yen. With a bit of geological background, I can say with 100% certainty that you ain't gonna mine nuclear fuel rods Anywhere on the Planet. Even though I suspect your post to be more tongue-in-cheek, no? "Highly enriched" Uranium deposits are Not "naturally occuring"!
I was being "facetious" poncho.
Uranium deposits are "in fact" naturally occuring. Highly enriched Uranium deposits are not.
The problem with public education, is that it lacks "critical thinking", in it's curriculum.
Do Not Pass Go> No cybercoins for you.
ayatollah certified
More cry-baby sour grapes neo-con bullshit.
I don't see what the imagined problem is here. If it's OK for any country to mine uranium, it's OK and also 100% legal for Iran to mine it too. So big deal. If the Iranians played their cards close to their chest, so what? It is what every country on earth does.
We would have done the same, so would the US, and definitely so would have Israel.
The west got an undertaking to not build a bomb arsenal. So think yourself fortunate, as Iran did not have to do even that if they chose to go ahead. They could have just built 20 weapons and put it beyond dispute.
So keep stirring the pot and poisoning the well kike-media provocateurs and pretending there's some dire problem with Iran, and its deal. Keep it up and you'll get exactly what you claim to not want. Then you really will have an insoluble existential problem.
And welcome to the fucking club! Idiots.
Isn't this a bit awkward?
How can you not but fucking treasure the Zionist's dilemma NOW?!!!
I'm pretty sure Israel doesn't need the map shown. The actual locations are on speed dial input for their ballistic forces.
Uranium ore what?
Abbott and Costello:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K-PferH-PQ
If it smelts, leave it in the ground.
This is definitively not a big issue. Uranium is everywhere, not scarce at all, can be mined from the sea. Theres a big path between mining uranium ore and manufacturing nukes.
Russia's new rabid-dog-on-a-leash has found a bone to nourish itself with. World terrorism about to expand. Now with WMDs.
God works in mysterious ways. First it choose a people, then it choose a site for its uranium deposit to subdue the incerasingly belligerent chosen people.
yeah but have they discovered any lesbians? trannies? We are way ahead with our rainbow military. Forward
Looks like it is all academic in the long run as the nuclear industry has already sealed our fate.
With the sh*t still pouring out into the Pacific from the Fukusallup Japanese power station.
I hope all of you reading this on the West Coast have stopped eating fish and other sea products. I don't want to ruin your day but cast your eyes over this http://www.picassodreams.com/files/fukushima-pacific-ocean-chronology-pd...
We need these leaders again.
"Dear Sir,
I received your favor of Oct. 16, at this place, where I pass much of my time, very distant from Monticello.
I am quite astonished at the idea which seems to have got abroad; that I propose publishing something on the subject of religion, and this is said to have arisen from a letter of mine to my friend Charles Thompson, in which certainly there is no trace of such an idea.
When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into it's thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind, into which of the chambers of this Bedlam would a [torn] man wish to thrust himself. The sum of all religion as expressed by it's best preacher, “fear god and love thy neighbor” contains no mystery, needs no explanation. But this wont do. It gives no scope to make dupes; priests could not live by it.
Your idea of the moral obligations of governments are perfectly correct. The man who is dishonest as a statesman would be a dishonest man in any station. It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings collected together are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. It is a great consolation to me that our government, as it cherishes most it's duties to its own citizens, so is it the most exact in it's moral conduct towards other nations.
I do not believe that in the four administrations which have taken place, there has been a single instance of departure from good faith towards other nations. We may sometimes have mistaken our rights, or made an erroneous estimate of the actions of others, but no voluntary wrong can be imputed to us. In this respect England exhibits the most remarkable phaenomenon in the universe in the contrast between the profligacy of it's government and the probity of it's citizens. And accordingly it is now exhibiting an example of the truth of the maxim that virtue & interest are inseparable.
It ends, as might have been expected, in the ruin of it's people, but this ruin will fall heaviest, as it ought to fall on that hereditary aristocracy which has for generations been preparing the catastrophe. I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it's birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Present me respectfully to Mrs. Logan and accept yourself my friendly and respectful salutations."
Thomas Jefferson November 12,1816
Whst the fuck is half the posts on here tonight?!