Iran's "Plan B" for a Nuclear Bomb
[Iran's "Plan B" for a
Nuclear Bomb: If only this were fiction by
Joel C. Rosenberg Washington, D.C.] "If only
this were fiction, friends. Unfortunately,
it's not.
"The Telegraph can disclose details of
activity at a heavily-guarded Iranian
facility from which international inspectors
have been barred for 18 months," reports the
London Telegraph. "The images, taken earlier
this month, show that Iran has activated the
Arak heavy-water production plant. Heavy
water is needed to operate a nuclear reactor
that can produce plutonium, which could then
be used to make a bomb. The images show
signs of activity at the Arak plant,
including a cloud of steam that indicates
heavy-water production."
"Iran has told the IAEA that it will begin
operating the reactor at Arak in the first
three months of 2014," notes the Telegraph.
"The country still lacks the technology to
reprocess plutonium and use it for a weapon.
But North Korea has successfully developed
that technology, and some analysts speculate
that Iran could do the same."
"Mark Fitzpatrick, a former US State
Department official at the International
Institute for Strategic Studies, suggested
that Arak could be part of a process that
might trigger Western strikes on Iran,"
reports the Telegraph. "One option for the
Iranian regime would be to acquire the
necessary reprocessing technology from North
Korea, he said. 'By then, the option of a
military strike on an operating reactor
would present enormous complications because
of the radiation that would be spread,' he
explained. 'Some think Israel's red line for
military action is before Arak comes
online.'"
"I think there's time, but there's not much
time" for sanctions to work, Israeli
Ambassador Michael Oren told USA Today.
"There's a window for diplomacy, but the
window is closing....We know that given the
centrifuges that they have now, they will
pass a red line. That's the point where we
will no longer be able to prevent them from
making a nuclear weapon, and that line is
coming up in the summer. If they install the
next generation of centrifuges - and they're
installing them right now -- (and) if those
centrifuges begin to spin, then the time
will be even shorter..." Full text:
Joel Rosenberg Blog
Mt 24:22
