More on Iran's green salt nuke project

Steve Schippert:

Iran has provided the IAEA with documents on a program they had denied existed only two months ago - after the US released intelligence to the IAEA. With the IAEA Board of Governors meeting rapidly approaching, Iran now appears to be making typical gestures of ‘coming clean’. This time, it’s the ‘Green Salt Project’ back in the news, with Iran now producing documents on that very program. The ‘Green Salt Program’ was first made public in late 2005 when US intelligence began divulging some details of the kinds of nuclear information that was present on a laptop produced from Iran.

Exactly what information Iran provided to the IAEA today on their ‘Green Salt Project’ is not known. What is known is that when the question of a ‘Green Salt Project’ was first posed to Iran by the IAEA, Iran called the accusations baseless. And as they’ve done with prior ‘accusations’ - we now learn that this too was Iranian deception.

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Consider Iran’s latest move nothing more than a pre-emptive strike. They have had ample time now to massage the information, including the preparation of any facilities to match what they are providing should any inspections be eventually demanded by the Security Council and agreed to by Iran.

Once again, the secretive and deceptive nature of Iran’s ‘peaceful nuclear energy program’ contradicts this persistent claim.

‘Green Salt’ is a term given to uranium tetrafluoride (UF4), which is a mid-point state of uranium in the process of converting uranium ore into the UF6 uranium fuel used in nuclear plants or, alternatively, further enriched for weapons-grade uranium. Essentially, it is a section of the fuel cycle that Iran has not divulged until now, days before the IAEA meeting that will ultimately condemn them before the United Nations Security Council formally takes up the Iranian nuclear crisis.

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