AP Exclusive: Draft agreement cuts Iran's nuclear hardware

[Hindustani78]

France says deal with Iran must be robust, guarantee no atomic bomb| Reuters
By John Irish

LAUSANNE, Switzerland Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:50am EDT

(Reuters) - France's foreign minister said on Saturday that his country wanted an agreement over Iran's nuclear program that was sufficiently robust to guarantee that Tehran could not acquire an atomic bomb.

Iran and six world powers - the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China - suspended negotiations on a nuclear agreement on Friday and are set to meet again next week to break a deadlock over sensitive atomic research and lifting of sanctions.

France has been demanding more stringent restrictions on the Iranians under any deal than the other Western delegations and at one point during the talks French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius phoned his team to ensure it made no more concessions, officials said.

The Europeans and U.S. Secretary of State Kerry plan to meet in London on Saturday to help bridge differences, negotiators said, before a end-March deadline for a political framework agreement and a full nuclear deal by June 30. Officials have expressed concerns that the French might block a deal.

"France wants an agreement, but a robust one that really guarantees that Iran can have access to civilian nuclear power, but not the atomic bomb," Fabius told Europe 1 radio on Saturday.

Iran denies allegations from the Western powers and their allies that it harbors nuclear weapons ambitions. It wants all U.N. sanctions to be lifted immediately, including those targeting its nuclear program.

While the talks have made progress over the past year, differences on sticking points are still wide enough to potentially prevent an agreement in the end.

There was no breakthrough this week. Disagreements arose among the powers, with France insisting on a longer period of restrictions on Iran's nuclear work. It also opposed the idea of suspending some U.N. sanctions relatively quickly if a deal is struck.

"This accord must be robust. Why? Because we have to protect ourselves from the eventuality of an Iranian atomic bomb," Fabius added on Saturday.

"But also if the accord is not sufficiently solid then regional countries would say it's not serious enough, so we are also going to get the nuclear weapon, and that would lead to an extremely dangerous nuclear proliferation."

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini denied on Friday there were divisions between Europe and the United States.

"There is unity, there is unity on the fact that we want a deal, we want a good deal," she said in Brussels after talks with French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said the talks would resume on Wednesday.

(Editing by Pravin Char)

 

[Hindustani78]

Final nuclear deal possible: Rouhani | Zee News
Last Updated: Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 17:05
Tehran: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says progress has been made in negotiations with world powers over Iran's nuclear programme and that a final nuclear accord is possible.


In comments published by the official IRNA news agency and the presidential website, Rouhani paints an optimistic picture.

He says the progress made in the latest round of talks can be the basis of a final deal. Rohani warns that some significant differences remain, but adds there is nothing that can not be resolved.

Iran and the six-nation group of global powers, the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany hope to reach a rough deal on Iran's disputed nuclear programme by the end of March and a final agreement by June 30. Iran has called for a single-stage final accord soon.

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[Serpentine]

France is playing its 'bitch' role again. People of Iran will never forget that. They are acting as Israel and Gulf's bitch.

 

[Daneshmand]

France is playing its 'bitch' role again. People of Iran will never forget that. They are acting as Israel and Gulf's bitch.

They are all the same. From time to time, they change their acting roles. Sometimes stick is in the hand of US and carrot in the hand of France. Sometimes stick in the hand of France and carrot in the hand of US.

It is done to confuse Iran.

It is the same France that used to provide fighter jets, cruise missiles, chemical weapons and computers to Saddam so that he could kill Iranians more efficiently while US was busy harassing Iranian shipping lanes and shooting down Iranian airliners.

The only thing Iran should not forget is its national interests and national security.

France is playing its 'bitch' role again. People of Iran will never forget that. They are acting as Israel and Gulf's bitch.

PS.

By the way. Iran had invested in this mammoth uranium enrichment factory, situated in France by the name of Eurodif. Some 10% of it belonged to Iran. It had a total installed capacity of over 11 million SWU and during its operation processed over 150 million SWU of uranium. 10% of it legally belonged to Iran. That is over 15 million SWU. France never allowed Iran to receive even a quarter of a SWU worth of enriched uranium. In 2012, they shut down this Iranian owned plant, with Iranian investment going down the drain.

 

[Serpentine]

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@Serpentine

اگه مدیریت نمی کنی خودم وارد عمل بشم !؟

Although I find Abii's post irrational and completely out of circle of logic, but I can't delete it because that's his opinion.

You can answer him, but: 1. in English (or Farsi in chill thread) and 2. without insults. You are welcome to do it.

 

[Full Moon]

France is playing its 'bitch' role again. People of Iran will never forget that. They are acting as Israel and Gulf's bitch.

 

[Falcon29]

Get the deal done already its giving me headache!

 

[Serpentine]

@SOHEIL

Didn't see the first line and the insult in it at first. fixed it.

 

[Rangila]

@rahi2357

Well. you need 25 kg of enriched uranium to make a 20 - 40 kiloton uranium nuclear bomb ( not plutonium type ) . ~6000 Separative work units ( SWU ) is enough to produce 25 kg of weapons grade uranium (enriched to about 90% U-235 ) in 12 months . And each IR-1 centrifuge is 1 SWU . In other words " 6000 Ir-1 Centrifuges " Means a one year nuclear break-out time ( Breakout time measures the time needed to build a nuclear weapon ) capable of making a bomb for each year .

No it is not. Its way below to almost a half:


For the country to be able to reach this number, Iran would likely need at least 190,000 and perhaps as many as about 243,000 first-generation centrifuges, known as IR-1 centrifuges. (The efficiency of these first-generation centrifuges varies a good deal, from about 0.78 SWU per unit per year to 0.9 SWU, but in the past couple of years most of them have been producing at the lower end of the scale. All of which means that Iran may need a lot more than first anticipated to reach the goal of 190,000 SWU produced annually.)

 

[Daneshmand]

@rahi2357

Well. you need 25 kg of enriched uranium to make a 20 - 40 kiloton uranium nuclear bomb ( not plutonium type ) . ~6000 Separative work units ( SWU ) is enough to produce 25 kg of weapons grade uranium (enriched to about 90% U-235 ) in 12 months . And each IR-1 centrifuge is 1 SWU . In other words " 6000 Ir-1 Centrifuges " Means a one year nuclear break-out time ( Breakout time measures the time needed to build a nuclear weapon ) capable of making a bomb for each year .

No it is not. Its way below to almost a half:


For the country to be able to reach this number, Iran would likely need at least 190,000 and perhaps as many as about 243,000 first-generation centrifuges, known as IR-1 centrifuges. (The efficiency of these first-generation centrifuges varies a good deal, from about 0.78 SWU per unit per year to 0.9 SWU, but in the past couple of years most of them have been producing at the lower end of the scale. All of which means that Iran may need a lot more than first anticipated to reach the goal of 190,000 SWU produced annually.)

You are wrong. @rahi2357 is right.

Here is a calculator: Uranium Enrichment Calculator

You need less than 4000 SWU of capacity to produce 20 Kg of U-235 at 90%.

 

[jarves]

The deal seems very good. But we need to see how the sanctions are going to get lifted. If the sanction get lifted fast we made a VERY good deal in my opinion.

@PERSIAN GOD KING............Is that you?

 

[Rangila]

You are wrong. @rahi2357 is right.

Here is a calculator: Uranium Enrichment Calculator

You need less than 4000 SWU of capacity to produce 20 Kg of U-235 at 90%.

That was not from me.
That was the quote from this>>> Meeting Iran's nuclear fuel supply needs | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
So in other words The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is wrong...
That is what you are implying.

 

[Daneshmand]

That was not from me.
That was the quote from this>>> Meeting Iran's nuclear fuel supply needs | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
So in other words The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is wrong...
That is what you are implying.

I guess you did not read the article carefully. It says 100 kSWU is needed for fueling of Arak and Bushehr. @rahi2357 was not talking about fueling the reactors.

Also Iran's most advanced centrifuge the IR-6 has actually the capacity of 24 SWU. Whether it will be permitted to become operational (at least for research purposes) under this deal, is yet to be seen.

 

[SOHEIL]

@PERSIAN GOD KING............Is that you?

I don't think so ...

 

[raptor22]

Having limitations for a few years on the number of our centrifuges is not the end of world if Iran's right under the NPT would be met by the end and removal of sanctions in the upcoming probable deal, on the other hand if anyone thinks that the deal is a magic abracadabra trick that resolves all our economic problems at once I should say that they are wrong our problems is somewhere else which has intensified by sanctions.