In breaking news Iran to allow U.N. experts to inspect a nuclear facility, reversing a previous ban, the International Atomic Energy Agency said. In an international game of red light, green light Inspectors are losing track of how many times they have been allowed in and kicked out. The good news is they now have enough flights on Air Iran to qualify for a free flight, unless they are a woman and then they have to stay at home and cover themselves in bed linens if they can’t find a burka.
Iran recently announced that it intends to activate a uranium conversion facility near Isfahan (under IAEA safeguards), a step that produces the uranium hexafluoride gas used in the enrichment process. Sources to Time magazine have concluded that Iran actually introduced uranium hexafluoride gas into some centrifuges at an undisclosed location to test their ability to work. That would be a blatant violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran is a signatory.
Experts say the new discoveries are very serious and should be handled in public. “If Iran were found to have an operating centrifuge, it would be a direct violation [of the non-proliferation treaty] and is something that would need immediately to be referred to the United Nations Security Council for action,” Which would no doubt involve some kind of non binding resolution that resulted in destroying a few hundred trees and diplomatic mealy mouthed abstraction resulting in no action.
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