Nadene Goldfoot
A drone, possibly from the Lebanese Islamic militant group, Hezbollah, was sited over Israel on Saturday. Israeli fighter jets shot it down. That was the first time in the past 6 years that a hostile aircraft got into Israel's airspace.
Hezbollah is backed by Iran. they are known to have sent drones over Israel before. Right now Iran and Israel are at odds over the Iranians creating uranium to service A bombs which would be used on Israel. Iran has threatened Israel saying they are going to destroy her and drive her into the sea and other nasty expletives. After calling Israel every horrible name imagined and then some, they have the audacity to say that their program is for peaceful reasons only like medicine.
At the same time, Iran is having to deal with their very angry citizens who find the value of their money is shrinking quickly. Iran is trying to placate international concerns over their nuclear program which has brought about restrictions on Iran and is starting to hurt them. They say they have converted more than 1/3 of their most enriched uranium into a powder for a medical research reactor. They say that this stuff would be hard to reprocess to make atomic weapons. The goal for them now is to restart nuclear talks with the world powers and soften demands by the US and others to stop their top-level uranium enrichment.
The USA and allies want them to stop the 20% production and ship the rest outside the country. Iran is adamant that they will never give up the capacity for this enrichment program. Sanctions need to continue and the Iranians need to keep being vocal about their situation in order to change Tehran's leadership to finally make a deal.
Iran has almost 419 pounds of 20% enriched uranium produced. They have made U308-uranium oxide from 157 pounds of it. Experts say that it's not good material for making weapons. Just how much of it do they need for medical research? We're talking about the remainder of the 262 pounds they have ready to go into death dealing atomic weaponry.
Resource: Oregonian Sunday paper 10/7/2012 page A 11: Israeli jets down drone that had entered airspace, AP
page A12 Iran makes move to ease fears over nuke program by Ali Akbar Dareini, AP
A drone, possibly from the Lebanese Islamic militant group, Hezbollah, was sited over Israel on Saturday. Israeli fighter jets shot it down. That was the first time in the past 6 years that a hostile aircraft got into Israel's airspace.
Hezbollah is backed by Iran. they are known to have sent drones over Israel before. Right now Iran and Israel are at odds over the Iranians creating uranium to service A bombs which would be used on Israel. Iran has threatened Israel saying they are going to destroy her and drive her into the sea and other nasty expletives. After calling Israel every horrible name imagined and then some, they have the audacity to say that their program is for peaceful reasons only like medicine.
At the same time, Iran is having to deal with their very angry citizens who find the value of their money is shrinking quickly. Iran is trying to placate international concerns over their nuclear program which has brought about restrictions on Iran and is starting to hurt them. They say they have converted more than 1/3 of their most enriched uranium into a powder for a medical research reactor. They say that this stuff would be hard to reprocess to make atomic weapons. The goal for them now is to restart nuclear talks with the world powers and soften demands by the US and others to stop their top-level uranium enrichment.
The USA and allies want them to stop the 20% production and ship the rest outside the country. Iran is adamant that they will never give up the capacity for this enrichment program. Sanctions need to continue and the Iranians need to keep being vocal about their situation in order to change Tehran's leadership to finally make a deal.
Iran has almost 419 pounds of 20% enriched uranium produced. They have made U308-uranium oxide from 157 pounds of it. Experts say that it's not good material for making weapons. Just how much of it do they need for medical research? We're talking about the remainder of the 262 pounds they have ready to go into death dealing atomic weaponry.
Resource: Oregonian Sunday paper 10/7/2012 page A 11: Israeli jets down drone that had entered airspace, AP
page A12 Iran makes move to ease fears over nuke program by Ali Akbar Dareini, AP
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