I always hate these wishy-washy statements:

"Officials in Europe and the United States fear the enriched uranium will be used by Tehran for a suspected clandestine project to produce the mullah regime's first nuclear warhead."

Fear? Fear?? What the hell is Iran going to do with enriched uranium BUT build a nuclear warhead? Build self-heating homes? Sterilize sheep?

Seriously, whenever I see that kind of lame-ass press equivocation, I want to smack someone, as if there's any other purpose for this stuff than the blindingly obvious.

It all makes me feel like paraphrasing the immortal words of Austin Millbarge-- "You know what enriched uranium can do? It'll suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro."

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

This reads too good to be true. It sounds so perfectly politically aligned with me that I doubt it comes from Europe. Is Der Spiegel a conservative media outlet?

Also, the top picture kicks ass.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,384240,00.html

Chirac is finally shouting out like he has a pair:
Iran would be committing a serious mistake if it ignored the international community on its nuclear program

Acually, the enriched uranium could, and i really use this word loosely, could be used for a breeder reactor. Don't know why they'd build one except for non-wastefull power generation or as a way to make ALOT of really enriched stuff really fast...which could be used for more reactors...or more likely, nice big Nukes.
Seriously, if the Germans are calling for your ass, you are well and truely fucked my fine freinds.
Next thing you know China will be saying something along the lines of "rouge states shouldn't posses nuclear potential...." and then, oh, it's ON.
But I can just dream. Mostly I dream of a second revolution, some trees and a whole lot of rope (or, y'know, cat 5 cable. whatever, y'know, however it goes). Give the youth blue jeans and rock and roll (or more likely blogs, cell phones and aim) and let them start a good civil war/rebellion.

But i'm just a dreamer.

Sure, Pharniel. That is technically possible.

Of course, it's also technically possible that your average San Francisco resident supports medical marijuana for their glaucoma.

Riiiiight.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

hey, that's why I italicized 'could'. Smart money is on nukes, and the scary bit is they'll get idiots from Iraq to carry them wherever 'cause I don't see Iran with a successfull space program or other reliable means of delivery.

Why do I think that the next step after "breaking the seals" is going to be "crossing the streams"?

Time for Old Europe to resort to the Emergency Concession proposal to bring those Mad Mullahs back in line.

"rouge states shouldn't posses nuclear potential...." Got it in for metrosexuals, have you?

Their getting serious about it? sounds great

Completely OT: on that website, the bottom-most picture, of Putin.

You know what that shield symbol thing is?

Emblem of the old KGB.

Just saying.

(Maybe the Cold War hasn't ended, to a degree.)