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UPDATED: 10:50, February 01, 2007 Thinking tank sees Iran 2 to 3 years away from building nuclear weapon Iran is still at least two to three years away from building a nuclear weapon, a British leading think tank reported on Wednesday. "If and when Iran does have 3,000 centrifuges operating smoothly, the IISS estimates it would take an additional 9 - 11 months to produce 25 kg of highly enriched uranium, enough for one implosion-type weapon," said John Chipman, director of London- based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). "That day is still 2 - 3 years away at the earliest," Chipman said at the launch of the IISS annual publication "The Military Balance." Iran was on track to complete its goal of producing 3,000 centrifuges by the end of March or shortly thereafter, said Chipman, adding that at least 500 of these had been obtained from the black market. "Getting the centrifuge cascades to function properly is then another task of an entirely different order of magnitude, which would take at least another year but probably longer," said he. The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1737 on Dec. 23, 2006, calling on Tehran to suspend its enrichment activities and imposing sanctions on Iran's nuclear and missile programs but was rejected by Iran which vowed to install at least 3,000 centrifuges by the end of March. Source: Xinhua +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
