Tehran interim Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami. Press TV
Senior Cleric: Iran Has Knowledge To Build A Nuclear Bomb -- The Guardian
The Islamic republic has reached the expertise to enrich uranium not just to the 5% and 20% levels required for civilian uses but to higher levels required for a bomb, says Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami
An official site belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has quoted a senior conservative cleric as saying that Iran has attained the knowledge to build a nuclear bomb but doesn’t want to use it.
The IRGC site of Kurdistan province today quoted Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a leading cleric who often leads Friday prayers in Tehran, as telling a group of IRGC commanders in Iran’s Kurdistan province that Iran had the expertise to enrich uranium not just to the 5% and 20% levels required for civilian uses but to higher levels required for a bomb. “[We] can enrich uranium at 5% or 20%, as well as 40% to 50%, and even 90%,” he was quoted as saying. But he said the Islamic republic believed that the building of a bomb is religiously forbidden.
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My Comment: After this Iranian admission the question needs to be asked .... what will be the White House's response to this threat? My prediction .... they will ignore it and hope that the P5 + 1 nuclear talks will produce something in the months ahead .... and if not .... they will do everything in their power to kick the can down the road for the next administration to face and handle.
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Everybody, who has a self managed Nuclear Power industry, has the " knowledge" and the "ability" to build a nuclear bomb.
Canada can construct a "bomb" in as little as two months. We have all the knowledge, all the technology, and all the material.
It's called Threshold Nuclear Power, and there are 75 of them, many a lot less stable, with more telling regional power issues than Iran.
It really isn't a "big deal", other than to Israel and AIPAC.
And their issues are not an "Islamic" bomb, but instead, their own nuclear arsenal and blackmail.
What makes this story unique Jay is who is admitting it. In the past they would deny any suggestions or accusations that they were interested in making an atomic bomb .... today .... the common response is .... yes ... we can build a bomb but we do not want to.
They have been saying that, in one fashion or another, since they toppled the Shah and stopped his Nuclear Weapons Program.
Khomeni issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons in 1976, and even during the Iran-Iraq War, with Saddam shifting After the Bushir Strike from Domestic Nuclear Power, to a Weapons program, the Mullah's kept saying that the Bomb, was unIslamic.
WNU,
Quoted on an official IRGC site. Well, well, care to take a guess on the intended audience?
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