Eliminate 15K Iranian Centrifuges, Thousands of Kilos of Uranium: Shape Of Nuclear Deal

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http://breakingdefense.com/2014/04/eliminate-15k-iranian-centrifuges-8000-kilos-uranium-shape-of-nuclear-deal/



Eliminate 15K Iranian Centrifuges, Thousands of Kilos of Uranium: Shape Of Nuclear Deal
By Michael Adler on April 08, 2014 at 1:11 PM

The outlines of a possible nuclear deal with Iran are now clear. What isn’t known is whether Iran will actually agree to the terms of the six major powers with which it negotiates – the United States, Russia, China, Britain, Germany and France.

In the latest round of talks this week in Vienna, both sides are “laying out their positions and trying to better understand where each of us are on the various issues,” a senior US administration official said in background comments. “This process has been helpful in setting the table … to use the March and April rounds to go over every single issue that we believed had to be addressed in a comprehensive agreement and make sure we understood each other on those issues.” The goal is to begin “drafting in May (an agreement that would guarantee Iran will not seek nuclear weapons),” the official said. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif gave much the same timetable when he arrived in Vienna for the talks, according to reports.

The six-month negotiating period on which the clock started ticking January 20 and for which talks on a comprehensive agreement began in February calls for a deal to be struck by July, although this could be extended for another six months if more time is needed.

Here are some key elements of a likely accord, as well as the differences which divide Iran from the international community and which could torpedo an agreement. Iran is expected to be able to keep on enriching uranium but the question is how many centrifuges it will be able to keep turning and how much enriched uranium, which can be fuel for civilian reactors or bomb material, it will be able to stockpile. Right now Iran has some 19,000 centrifuges installed and 7,609 kilograms of low-enriched uranium stockpiled, enough for several bombs. Experts believe Iran would have to reduce the number of centrifuges to 4,000 and the stockpile to very little — since it does not have a power reactor it needs to fuel at this point — in order to reduce the ability to “break-out”, that is rush to making enough fissile material for a bomb. Iran however has spoken of not dismantling its program and merely allowing for tighter monitoring, leaving a huge gap between the two sides on this issue.

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1. Article lately showed over 20 yr period, Iran was months way from a bomb

in the media constantly and sourced it with the actual articles. A quick google search didn't bring up the article I was thinking of, but did bring up this video which goes back to 2005, so i can only show 10 years. This is to answer anyone that was going to "zing" me because I said 20 but only showed 10. Like that changes anything anyway.