Future of iran!

[sursena]

Originally Posted by Cyrus

The US is not alone, some weeks ago 30 other countries also participated in a military exercise against Iran in the Persian gulf, the important point is that instability in the Middle East is one of the main threats to the economy of the world, motsly because oil and petroleum products which are very crucial for the transportation, industrial purpose, ... as sursena somehow said, some people still don't know that we all live in the same world and all economies depend on each other.

So those who love Iranian Mullahs can't be happy for a long time, you can be sure that other countries will never allow them to build nuclear weapons, a military invasion is just one of their options.

[italiano_pellicano]

Iran is a great country

[sursena]

Iran has increased nuclear enrichment capacity, IAEA report says
The country could sharply step up production of enriched uranium to a purity that could be quickly improved to bomb grade, says the United Nations' watchdog agency.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,7828780.story

[SoroushPersepolisi]

Originally Posted by italiano_pellicano

Iran is a great country

grazie! İtaly is great too

[soheilz]

Originally Posted by sursena

Iran has increased nuclear enrichment capacity, IAEA report says
The country could sharply step up production of enriched uranium to a purity that could be quickly improved to bomb grade, says the United Nations' watchdog agency.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,7828780.story

Good

[SinaK]

Originally Posted by abii

Stop trolling. I read your comments on the Iraqi section. Please don't do the same here.

Iran is allowed to enrich as much uranium as it wants under the NPT agreement.

What do you think reactors run on? Water and sunshine? They need enriched uranium to run. We have the Bushehr reactor, IR-40, research and medical reactors... Plus, this is LEU we're talking about. You can't turn LEU into weapons grade uranium just like that. Iran's LEU is under watch and every molecule has to be accounted for. PLUS, there's no evidence that Iran even wants to do that.

Bushehr is only allowed to use Russian supplied fuel, as per the contract.

So the several tonnes of <5% LEU thats just sitting around is useless. Bushsher has taken 40 years to get built, i don't see any development of any other plants at the moment. Although, if shahs program was to continue without disruption, iran would have had 20 reactors by the 90s.

The 19.75% level uranium i believe there is more than enough of. I don't know if the stock bought from argentina is finished yet but either way half of the stockpile of the 19.75% has been converted to fuel pads which means its ready to be used at TRR.


About the recent news, (actually it happened a while ago, the IAEA report only comes out in 3 month intervals), it was only about iran finishing installing the centrifuges. they haven't actually started using them. all the new ones are just "installed", the amount of centrifuges actually running in fordo is the same as it was before. All it means now is that the fordo has been filled to max capacity of 3000 centrifuges. And if iran wanted to, they can turn those on and enrich uranium faster. (thats if they can, there have been reports that the centrifuges were having problems - these centrifuge designs are really old, slow and inefficient, the designs of the new IR3 and IR4 are still several years away of working, its taking them ages to get even one prototype of a new generation centrifuge).

Other developments: iran is actually taking the fuel out of Bushehr, so its stopped for now. we don't know why but its probably having problems again. 40 years, i mean come on....

[FreddyB]

From now on. Any off-topic comment will receive a high infraction, including political, attacking eachother's opinions, Israel, nuclear, Saudi Arabia,... and even replying to the comments that weren't appropriate and posted before I write this.
I will delete them as soon as I have time. So don't say you were just answering the previous comments and etc.

[Irandoost]

Originally Posted by soheilz

Good

[Obuyama]

Nuclear is good, of cause. But I think, the other of most valuable is TransIranian high speed railway.
Main reason: cargo transit to inland countries: Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan & South Russia (!), & to EU at the end. The main target is Europe. South East Asian cargo to EU via Iran, Russia & other lands.
Gauge: European or Russian, there should be talks, Russia may not agree to use EU gauge, & I've heard, even Germany agrees to prolong Russian gauge via Poland to Germany in.
Main economic competitor: China, wants to build Trans-Eurasian railway from her coast or at least Chongking to Germany & other EU countries directly connected.
On today many products are made for EU in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kambodia & other South Pacific countries. Iran may serve for the link & terminal of these cargo routes.
Support: deep water NEW cargo port at the beginning of railway. Hubs for cargo, with some in the middle of Iran (for some imported products spreading & for export products collecting), terminals in Russia, in Turkmenia, in Kazakhstan (ATTENTION: the last two have no OCEAN ports, inland closed countries), in Germany, in other EU's.
Iran should obtain an OCEAN real port, to be Junction Hub for transit cargo (& of cause, earn money from this).
For passengers: also hubs for domestic passengers & may be (!) for international (Russia, Turkmenia, Kazakhstan).
Speed: for cargo up to 200 km/h, for passenger's - 300 km/h.
Investments: Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenia, Poland, Germany together.

Source of picture: http://www.railcolor.net/index.php?n...3&action=image

[SoroushPersepolisi]

yes

rail linkage especially high speed is very good

regarding nuclear : its good to know it and have it, but shouldnt be relied too much in, it has no real future , countries like japan and germany are slowly moving away fron it as a result of the lack of ability to process the toxic wastes etc and the general risks regarding the whole system (leakage, explosion over heating etc )

[Obuyama]

I speak about STRATEGIC rail for Iran as WORLD CARGO TRANSITION ROUTE & TERMINALS. It is more important than even high speed rail for passengers only. By 2015 China will finish her Lanzhou-Urumchi high speed line (including cargo moving). Next step for China will be enter Kazakhstan or Kirgizstan (this country is more likely to agree). Their main target - direct railway to Europe. And, for Iran better to start building Trans-Iranian railway from seacoast to the border with Turkmenistan. If Iran starts to build new OCEAN port with transit transportation HUB with new modern facility at the same time - it will be much more dividends in the future. China industry (in prices) weak year by year, some of industry's field are replaced by Vietnam, Indonesia, others. Sea transportation is still the cheapest way, but if sea route is long, time is money, & freight rate also is the same almost. So, Trans-Iranian Rail + Port + Terminal = "road of money" (as source of money).