{"id":23242,"date":"2015-04-08T07:07:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T12:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23242"},"modified":"2015-04-08T07:08:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T12:08:20","slug":"iran-to-start-using-faster-uranium-centrifuges-as-soon-as-deal-is-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23242","title":{"rendered":"Iran To Start Using Faster Uranium Centrifuges As Soon As Deal Is Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still analyzing the Iran nuclear deal, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iran-news-report-tehran-will-start-using-fastest-centrifuges-on-day-deal-takes-effect\/\">this is hardly encouraging<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran will begin using its latest generation IR-8 centrifuges as soon as its nuclear deal with the world powers goes into effect, Iran\u2019s foreign minister and nuclear chief told members of parliament on Tuesday, according to Iran\u2019s semi-official FARS news agency.<\/p>\n<p>If accurate, the report makes a mockery of the world powers\u2019 much-hailed framework agreement with Iran, since such a move clearly breaches the US-published terms of the deal, and would dramatically accelerate Iran\u2019s potential progress to the bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has said that its IR-8 centrifuges enrich uranium 20 times faster than the IR-1 centrifuges it currently uses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the end result of Obama&#8217;s deal to slow Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons drive will be to accelerate Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapon&#8217;s drive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2015\/04\/iran-will-start-using-fastest-centrifuges-on-day-deal-takes-effect-2\">Jihad Watch<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still analyzing the Iran nuclear deal, but this is hardly encouraging: Iran will begin using its latest generation IR-8 centrifuges as soon as its nuclear deal with the world powers goes into effect, Iran\u2019s foreign minister and nuclear chief told members of parliament on Tuesday, according to Iran\u2019s semi-official FARS news agency. If accurate, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":24,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,31],"tags":[2870,54,2867,486],"class_list":["post-23242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-jihad","tag-foreign-policy","tag-iran","tag-jihad","tag-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23251,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242\/revisions\/23251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}