Iran’s Secret Uranium Deal with Zimbabwe
On April 22, the Drudge Report linked to an article about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meeting with Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe. It failed to cause a fuss, but it tells us a lot about why General David Petraeus believes that Iran’s nuclear program has been delayed and we have at least until the end of the year before it gets the bomb.
Iran secretly agreed last month to provide Zimbabwe with oil in return for being given access to its uranium ore, the basic material that must be enriched in order to create the fuel for a nuclear bomb. Iranian scientists have been studying the African nation’s deposits for over a year to prepare for mining. The Iranian regime may have enriched some of its uranium to 20 percent, but they will still need a lot of uranium ore to create a nuclear arsenal. This latest cooperation with Zimbabwe confirms reports that this is where the Iranians are having trouble.
In January of last year, it was reported that Iran could run out of uranium in months, with the IAEA believing Iran had already converted about 70 percent of its stockpile into uranium hexafluoride gas. Many of the centrifuges being used to enrich the uranium are defective, resulting in only half of the 8,700 at the Natanz site being used last year. The Iranians were unable to replace the machines faster than they were breaking, resulting in the number of operating centrifuges dropping from 5,000 in May to 3,900 in November. The ones that did work only produced half of the enriched uranium that they should. Of course, the possibility remains that this is an act of deception.
David Ignatius brought attention to an article in October about how “impurities” in Iran’s uranium were damaging its centrifuges. This, he suspected, may explain why Iran seemed open at the time to having other countries enrich its uranium and ship it back, as that would cleanse that stock of the contamination. Western attempts to sabotage the nuclear program, particularly by providing the Iranians with defective equipment, appear to have been effective.
This is almost certainly the reason for General Petraeus’ statement and the recent bro-love between Mugabe and Ahmadinejad. A secret Israeli report said last May that Iran was also getting uranium from Venezuela and Bolivia. The Iranians and Venezuelans have talked about nuclear cooperation, and Chavez has agreed to allow Iran to explore for uranium in its Roraima Basin region. Venezuela’s mining minister says that Iran has already conducted surveys and testing and determined that the potential exists for the country to have uranium reserves, but it would take three years to certify the results. The news report says that only partial certification is needed for a project to begin.
There is an axis of evil in the world today. Unfortunately those who are best able to stop its spread, the US government, awake with its head between its knees thinking that by playing nice, evil will capitualte. While the Anti-Israeli animous is apparent in the Obama administration and leads its foreing policy initiatives, one would think that State and the Pentagon would be intelligent enough to put their anti-semitic inclinations aside and actually try to protect the free world. What an incredible axis of evil: Russia, to Zimbabwe, to Venezuela to Iran (possibly with a little North Korea thrown in). If I can see it from my computer why can’t they? Or do they see it and have decided that everything is the Jews fault? Perhaps someone should remove all the copies of the Protocals of the Elders of Zion from State and the Pentagon and give them a real history book.
Not much of a “secret” deal if we know all about it.
When a Government drives a country as deeply into bankrupsy as North Korea, Vietnam or Zimbabwe are there are no principle that the country will uphold. When the Warsaw pact fell the countries sent back unpaid guest workers (slaves) to Vietnam. Do not expect Zimbabwe to say no to anything when Iran shows up with dollars, pounds, Euros, or Yen.
The Iran secret uranium deal with Zimbabwe was to know exact situation of oil workers and mercenaries arrested at Zimbabwe enroute South Africa that works for Mark Tatcher families for coup against a nation in oil poor African country.