Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Iran's cascades
The Arms Control Wonk, who knows whereof he speaks, believes that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei may be misunderstanding and therefore misrepresenting the pace at which Iran is bringing centrifuge cascades online.
I don’t know about ElBaradei’s interpretation...
It seems to me that, rather than a political decision or technical difficulties, the Iranians are just changing their installation patterns.
I am interested in other people’s thoughts, but I suspect the Iranians are actually scaling up their installation work.
Rather than me butchering the point, read the whole thing, bearing in mind that the Wonk is hardly a bomb-'em-now-and-sort-it-out-later hawk. Quite the contrary.
5 Comments:
By 
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Wed Feb 25, 03:13:00 AM:
I would make a stronger statement: his misrepresentation doesn't stem from misunderstanding. The Quran commands Muslims to display loyalty only to each other. It also commands Muslims to lie in order to "defend" Islam. Defense of Islam includes eliminating all obstacles to the rule of Islam. ElBaradei is doing what any good Muslim would do, lie to the infidel as to the true intent and capabilities of his Muslim brothers.
By , at
Wed Feb 25, 04:58:00 AM:
How would you feel if I keep slapping you in the face and forcefully say you cannot own “something” no matter what, while I myself hold and own the same things? Wouldn’t you rise and stand up against my stupidity?
This is exactly what countries like North Korea, Iran and others feel and act against when pressured by countries lead by bigot USA (lead by Jews and Zionists) not to have nuclear power, nuclear arms, this technology or that technology. who are they to set the rules? one day the small kid grows up and slaps back, maybe even harder! and none of this has any thing to do with religion. Islam is just an excuse to cover up their bully nature.
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Wed Feb 25, 07:42:00 AM:
Wow... I'd never thought of it that way. Reasoned decision making by heads of state over weapons with the capacity to wipe out metropolises can be reduced to the level of schoolyard behavior. Truly, there is wisdom here.
What a complete and utter mischaracterization of international affairs.
By , at
Wed Feb 25, 12:34:00 PM:
"It would be nice if the Iranians were to forgo feeding hex into those nine cascades, but I don’t see why they would do us that particular favor. The incentive for Tehran right now is to install as many centrifuges as possible. And there is real danger if political leaders create a false hope that the Iranian’s are slackening the pace of installation, when I suspect that hope will feel like betrayal when the Iranians hit six large (6,000) this spring."
No question. Anyone involved, particularly the authors of the now infamous NIE from last year as well as El Baradei and the Obama administration will bear full responsibility. Joe Biden telling Israel that they will just have to "get used to" an Iranian bomb might as well address the same comments to Americans. This is unbelievable.
By , at
Wed Feb 25, 12:36:00 PM:
By the way, interesting choice of words: "I suspect hope will feel like betrayal". Take note, President Obama.
