IAEO - Iran mit großen Fortschritten bei der Urananreicherung

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Iran macht große Fortschritte bei Uran-Anreicherung
15.05.2007 | 07:53 | (DiePresse.com)

Bereits 1.300 Zentrifugen sind im Einsatz. Noch ist das Uran nicht waffentauglich. "In gewisser Weise tickt die Uhr", fürchtet man in den USA.

Der Iran hat der Internationale Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA/IAEO) zufolge große Fortschritte bei der Uran-Anreicherung erzielt. "Wir glauben, dass sie die Anreicherung im Wesentlichen verstanden haben", zitierte die "New York Times" vom Dienstag IAEA-Chef Mohamed ElBaradei. "Ab jetzt müssen sie das Wissen nur noch perfektionieren. Das werden die Leute nicht hören wollen, aber es ist eine Tatsache."

Inspektoren hätten am Sonntag festgestellt, dass iranische Ingenieure bereits 1.300 Zentrifugen im Einsatz haben, berichtete das Blatt weiter. Um waffentaugliches Uran herstellen zu können, ist noch ein höherer Grad der Anreicherung erforderlich.

"Haben nicht mehr viel Zeit."
Ein hochrangiger US-Vertreter sagte der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters in Washington: "In gewisser Weise tickt die Uhr". Es sei eine Sache, das Uran bis zur Waffentauglichkeit anzureichern, sagte der Vertreter, der namentlich nicht genannt werden wollte. Dann müsse man aber noch genug davon herstellen und eine so kleine Bombe bauen, dass sie transportiert werden könne. "Ich weiß einfach nicht, wie viel Zeit wir noch haben." Ein Sprecher des US-Außenministeriums sagte der "New York Times", er kenne den jüngsten Bericht der IAEA nicht. "Wir arbeiten aber weiter unter den Annahme, dass für die Diplomatie genug Zeit bleibt."

Der Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen fordert vom Iran die Einstellung der Uran-Anreicherung und hatte im März seine Sanktionen gegen die Islamischen Republik verschärft. Insbesondere die USA werfen dem Iran vor, nach Atomwaffen zu streben und haben einen Militärschlag nicht ausgeschlossen. Der Iran weist die Vorwürfe zurück.

http://www.diepresse.com/home/politik/aussenpolitik/304141/print.do

UN nuclear watchdog says Iran has begun enriching uranium on a far larger scale after solving most technological problems – NY Times

May 15, 2007, 12:40 PM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile reports: Iran’s nuclear leap catches the Bush administration preparing to start pulling US troops out of Iraq and embarking on an ultra-sensitive dialogue with Iran. Washington says the talks with Tehran will be confined to the Iraq crisis. However, they are bound to range over other issues, such as Persian Gulf security, Lebanon and the Palestinians.

In advance of the IAEA report to the UN Security Council next Monday, May 21, a short-notice inspection found Iranian engineers to be using roughly 1,300 centrifuges and producing enough fuel suitable for nuclear reactors. Iranian scientists appear to have surmounted the technological roadblocks preventing their bringing the P2 centrifuges up to speed.

To attain bomb-grade material, the product Iran has achieved so far would have to undergo further enrichment, but the energy agency’s director Mohammed ElBaradei said: “We believe they pretty much have the knowledge about how to enrich. From now on, it is simply a question of perfecting that knowledge.”

“One diplomat in Vienna said Iran could have 3,000 centrifuges operating by June – enough to make material for one bomb every year - and add another 5,000 by the end of the year.

Even with bomb-grade material, Iran is not thought to have the technology to produce a weapon small enough to fit atop a missile or for delivery by air.

DEBKAfile’s US and Iranian sources expect the US-Iran talks to evolve into a discussion on the sharing-out of influence in Iraq and possibly other parts of the region. Such wide-ranging bargaining is bound to impact instantly on all its member-nations.

Iran has been quick to mark out territory. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad paid a state visit to Abu Dhabi Sunday, May 14. US vice president Dick Cheney’s trip to the sheikdom two days earlier was kept low-key. The Iranian president’s was accompanied by pomp and fanfare. He strutted and swaggered as he addressed an audience of 80,000 at the big UAE football stadium, threatening “severe retaliation” if the US attacked his country over its nuclear program.

His posture bespoke Tehran’s sense that its aggressive tactics had prevailed and forced the United States into retreat. There was no sign that Ahmadenijad was impressed by the presence of the USS Stennis carrier strike group close to Abu Dhabi’s shores, or by Cheney’s declaration Friday aboard the vessel that the US would “stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region.”

Neither were Iran’s neighbors. It is common knowledge that Washington has stepped back from its demand that Iran cease enriching uranium, as reported previously by DEBKAfile.

Our sources add: As Iran’s nuclear weapons capability draws ever closer, the four-day national command war game Israel launched Monday, May 14 for top national policy-makers and commanders would appear to be aptly timed. However, prime minister Ehud Olmert, the key player with the biggest certified knowledge deficit in full-scale conflict management, has been otherwise engaged. He spent day one of the exercise touring northern Israel and strewing promises of funding for better shelters for the umpteenth time. Local civic leaders greeted the fresh round of pledges with extreme skepticism. Later he worked with his lawyers on a bid to bring the state controller to book for criticizing him.

Tuesday, Olmert traveled to Jordan to attend a gathering of 44 Nobel Peace Laureates at Petra. He continued to Aqaba for a private meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah at his summer villa. A few hours earlier, the US vice president was due to fly out of Jordan, the last stop of his Middle East tour. He did not stay to meet the prime minister.


http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4200


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