So Much For US Intelligence (Ezekiel 17)

  
Iran Reportedly Finds Big Uranium Reserve, Quashing Western Estimates

September 15, 2015 by River Gaines

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said on Saturday that the new discovery makes Tehran “confident” regarding its reserves of the natural element.

For their parts, the United States and the European Union must begin making the “necessary arrangements and preparations” to lift economic sanctions once the U.N. global Atomic Energy Agency verifies that Iran has put in place the restrictions on its nuclear program. However another tale had him as saying the deal – reached in Jul. & officially referred to as the Joint Complete Plan of Action – will not slow the pace of Iran’s nuclear program.

Self-sufficiency in its nuclear capabilities adds a new variable to efforts aimed at preventing the Islamic Republic from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Salehi said extraction was all ready to begin at the new mine in the province of Yazd.

Republicans complain the deal does not do away with Iran’s nuclear program, which Tehran insists is for peaceful purposes.

Uranium can be enriched to levels all the way to weapons-grade, which is used in the fissile core of nuclear arms.

Iran says it has not yet decided how to reduce its enriched uranium stockpile – which it must do under the July 14 nuclear deal it signed with six world powers.

Some Western analysts have said that Iran was close to exhausting its supply of Yellowcake (raw Uranium) and that mining it domestically was not cost-efficient.

“Despite the Iranian leadership’s assertions to the contrary, Iran’s estimated uranium endowments are nowhere near sufficient to supply its planned nuclear program”, the report said.

“According to press reports, the Iranians themselves would also be responsible for photographs and environmental sampling of Parchin, a large military installation where nuclear work is suspected to have been conducted and may still be under way”, she said. Now, the Iranians are only constrained in how much uranium they take out of the ground by how closely their mining program is monitored.
“Allowing the Iranians to inspect their own nuclear sites, particularly a notorious military site, is like allowing the inmates to run the jail”, said Graham.