on the peaceful nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
peaceful?
Irony?
The Captain
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Yes peaceful! No Irony!
Peaceful nuclear facilities are those that are not used for nuclear weapons production. Peaceful nuclear facilities include: nuclear power plants, uranium mining and processing, and low level uranium enrichment to 5%.
Just like in the USA has peaceful nuclear facilities and weapons nuclear facilities.
Well he wears a diaper so i dont think thats the reason
Yea we do our best but history is littered with best intentions gone awry. Weve deposed many regimes with very little noticable improvement to us or the locals. Law of unintended consequences. To assume a nuclear war was inevitable is crazy (most contries with nukes only use them as leverage. Ukraine, which gave up nukes, has proved that the only way to protect a country from attack is to have nukes ā¦ and the only nuclear war weāve had to date ended rather quickly and at least in the US we are taught that it saved countless lives)
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US Intel says Iran was years from a nuclear weapon. So is Bibi and Trump attacking Iran for some other reason?
US Intel said Iraq hadā¦
Not having them is not a problem but having them is.
An ounce of prevention!
The Captain
According to press reports, TIG was urging āBibiā to cool it, give the negotiations time.
June 12, 2025
Trump urges diplomatic solution with Iran but says Israeli strike could happen
There was another negotiation session scheduled for last Sunday.
As proposed in another thread, Israel may have attacked because they were afraid TIGās diplomatic efforts might be successful.
Steve
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Again noone with a nuke has ever used them except the usa.
The only time nukes were ever used was when noone else had them.
To use nukes now would almost certainly mean mutual suicide.
So again how does attacking them first prevent death
You are limited in your ability to defend your country. You cannot really retaliate and you are limited by the risk of nuclear retaliation if you counterstrike too hard. And the world will ask you not to cause a scene to prevent nuclear fallout. Regardless of whether you are a victum. The picture has never been clearer as after russia invaded ukraine.
To say noone else should get nukes is laughable. Everyone wants them. Only the forever weak will be without and will stay third country worlds with no negotiating leverage long term.
I dont remeber this hard of a campaign to prevent india or pakistan from getting nukes
Lets not pretend this is about nukes. This is about the iranian leadership. To thay end, Lets just bomb them to smithereens. Theyve already shown that they are incapable of retaliation in a meaningful way.
The Israelis are NOT bombing peaceful nuclear facilities in Iran, only those which are enriching uranium for weapons production.
The Israelis are performing surgical strikes, not terroristic ballistic missile attacks like the Iranians.
Wendy
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Wrong and irrelevant question that applies to rational people who want to live but does not apply to death cult where you get in heaven what you are denied on earth, like 72 virgins.
Spot on.
The Captain
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Addressing an urgent session of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on Monday, Grossi said radiation levels appear normal outside both the Natanz nuclear installation and another facility in Isfahan also targeted in Israeli strikes.
However, the IAEA director general warned that military escalation āincreases the chance of a radiological releaseā. Grossi had on Friday told the UN Security Council that Israelās strike on Natanz destroyed the above-ground part of the facility. While the main centrifuge facility underground was not hit, it lost power because of the attack.
That in turn, he warned, might have damaged the underground centrifuges that enrich uranium. Spinning centrifuges contain a gas called uranium hexafluoride, and it is this gas that poses the greatest risk of chemical contamination at Natanz at the moment, Grossi said. The gas is made by combining uranium and fluorine and is highly volatile and corrosive. It can burn skin and can be deadly if inhaled. It is unclear whether any of this gas has escaped from the centrifuges because of the power loss.
āAmid these challenging and complex circumstances, it is crucial that the IAEA receives timely and regular technical information about the facilities and their respective sites,ā Grossi said. In the absence of that information, he said, the IAEA ācannot accurately assess the radiological conditions and potential impacts on the population and the environment and cannot provide the necessary assistance.ā
Isfahan has both peaceful nuclear facilities and nuclear weapons facilities:
The nuclear facilities located in and near Isfahan include the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center (INTC), the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF), the Isfahan Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP), the Isfahan Fuel Element Cladding Plant, the Isfahan Nuclear Fuel Research and Production Center (NFRPC), and the Isfahan Nuclear Waste Storage Facility,[51] and In July 2022, Iran announced plans to build a new nuclear research reactor at the Isfahan site.[52]
Isfahan is suspected of being the primary location for Iranās secret nuclear weapon development program.[51][53] In September 2008, IAEA experts stated that they only had limited access in Isfahan, and that a quantity of uranium sufficient for six nuclear weapons, were removed from Isfahan to undisclosed locations while still at a stage in the enrichment process which was not monitored.[54] In June 2022, the IAEA reported that 90% of Iranās most highly enriched uranium was moved to the facilities Isfahan, which house the equipment used to convert uranium gas into uranium metal.[52][55]
Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center
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The Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center, one of the largest nuclear research centers in Iran, is located at the University of Isfahan.[56] It was established in 1984 and was built with Chinese assistance. The INTC employs 3000 scientists and operates three research reactors,[53] a critical assembly, a subcritical assembly, a hexafluoride conversion facility, a fuel production plant, a zirconium cladding plant, as well as other facilities and laboratories.[56] In August 2003, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) sent a letter to the IAEA in which it stated that experiments in heavy water production in the INTC began in the mid 1980s, pointing to a laboratory-scale heavy-water production facility on location, which later prompted the construction of a full scale heavy water reactor.[56]
Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility
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The Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) at Isfahan converts yellowcake into uranium oxide, uranium metal, uranium tetrafluoride (UF4),[57] and uranium hexafluoride (UF6),[56] which is injected into centrifuges for further enrichment.[57] According to an Iranian admission to the IAEA in July 2003, the UCF was constructed from designs obtained outside Iran, which allowed them to build the facility and its conversion equipment indigenously.[56] The facility was intended to supply UF6 to the enrichment facility in Natanz and uranium dioxide (UO2) as fuel to the heavy water reactor in Arak. The UFC also acts as a storage facility for nuclear waste products of the TRR and the MIX facility in Tehran.[56]
Isfahan Nuclear Fuel Research and Production Center
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The Isfahan Nuclear Fuel Research and Production Center (NFRPC) was established in 1974 with French assistance, for providing scientific and technical support for Iranās nuclear power plant program, and conducting fuel analysis and research,[56] including uranium mining, conversion and fuel production.[58][59] The NFRPC consists of a Nuclear Engineering Department, a Metallurgical Engineering and Fuel Department, a Chemistry Department, and a Miniature Neutron Source Reactor Department.[59][60] Production of experimental fuel for Water Water Energy Reactors (WWER) is conducted by the Fuel Fabrication Laboratory under The Metallurgical Engineering and Fuel Department.[56]
In 2004, construction began on a Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP) intended to produce fuel rods for both the IR-40 heavy water reactor and the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. Its completion was stalled due to missing equipment and sanctions of both the UN and USA.[59]
As of late October 2004, the site is 70% operational with 21 of 24 workshops completed. There is also a Zirconium Production Plant (ZPP) located nearby that produces the necessary ingredients and alloys for nuclear reactors. There is also a Fuel Plate Fabrication Plant (FPFP) at Isfahan.
As of 2022 another new nuclear construction development was built in suburban Isfahan.[61][62][63][64]