Iran has doubled production capacity at the Fordo nuclear site

[Cestrian]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19424097

Surely this is going to stir things up with Israel and the US.....

[NorthernRaider]

I think Iran is just reacting to the Yanks and Israeli sabre rattling.

[00111001]

I think Iran should be allowed the bomb. I'm glad they're happy to stand up to israhell and usa. Someone needs to.

[Skean Dhude]

Doubling capacity.

They now have space to make and store X more. They have none now. So 0 x 2 is ... OMG we are doomed someone tell the papers.

[Paul]

IAEA stated Iran has produced 189 kg of higher-grade enriched uranium since 2010.
Hiroshima's bomb used 56 kgs.
So going on that figure alone that's one popper each for Israel, the US, and their lap dog i.e. us.

Joke as you will but Iran won't think twice about making instant sunshine let alone using it.

[Skvez]

There is still a big technical leap between having it; and making it go 'bang'.

EDIT: Sorry making it go bang all at once.
Clump it together and it'll go bang but not necessarily in a very efficient way.

[Armoured Gideon]

Whatever action the U.S. takes in the Middle East, whether against Iran itself or Syria; Iran is now determined to enlarge the conflict into an Armageddon war (Al-Malhamah Al-Kubrah) that will result in the destruction of Israel, the U.S, and will cleanse the Middle East of western influence, whilel ushering in the reign of the 12th Iman. This crisis is already now that dangerous. “Ahmadinejad has aligned himself with the virtually invincible combined power of the East: Russia, China, North Korea, and to some extent, even India; making any potential future conflict in the area, involving Iran, a dangerous trip-wire for dragging other nations into the conflict. The future of the Middle East hangs in the balance, awaiting the outcome of this Iran-Israel high-stakes game of Stratego. A miscalculation by either side holds the potential for global disaster.”

Skvez, I hope your right. If not better get the top of that kitchen table painted white!

[NorthernRaider]

This is the Yanks and Israelis yet again trying to divert attention away from their own domestic problems, how in gods name can Israel object to Iran have nukes when Israel has them for itself.

[Skvez]

(3 September 2012, 19:27)NorthernRaider Wrote: how in gods name can Israel object to Iran have nukes when Israel has them for itself.

In exactly the same way as every other country that has them approves of the Non-proliferation of them.
"These weapons are very dangerous, it's not safe for anyone else to have them, we only have them for our own protection but you have (mostly) nothing to fear from us having them".

Or the same way as a government disarmes its citizens.
"It's safer for everyone else if you don't have dangerous things, try not to notice that we have them."

[Skean Dhude]

Those without see what happens, North Korea, when you have nukes and want them for protection. The West, hypocritical as usual, doesn't want anyone else to have them. The issue is that it is difficult to keep the quick manufacture of nukes secret so they get found out and then the West moves to stop them.

The real issue though is that the people looking for nukes now are those most likely to use them. I wouldn't want any of those looking for them to get nukes.