World Affairs Board - View Single Post - Pentagon halts sale of F-14 parts

Archer · 01-31-2007, 22:36 PM

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Originally Posted by highsea

You know, if we were devious, we would continue putting F-14 parts on the surplus market, knowing that they were destined for Iran.

Lots and lots of parts, that are almost up to spec. Seriously, are they going to X-ray and mag-particle test every single part? Do they really know the correct material and heat treat specs?

We could make a bundle selling defective parts, and further degrade their fleet in the process.

Total WonKerr: Iran On Centrifuges

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Other signs point to technical difficulties at Iran’s nuclear facilities. Earlier this month, Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh, who heads the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told reporters that about 50 centrifuges had exploded during a test.

“We had installed 50 centrifuges. One night, I was informed that all the 50 centrifuges had exploded. ... Ahmadinejad called me and said: ‘Build these machines even if they explode 10 times more,’” Aghazadeh was quoted as saying by Iranian media.

Paul Kerr:The problem is that the centrifuges exploded last spring. And that event is mentioned as part of a larger discussion which clearly characterizes the enrichment program as advancing rapidly.

Here’s what the report, which appeared in Ayande-ye Now 6 January, said:

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In the beginning of Esfand [March] of the same year, we received the permission to put the chain of centrifuges into operation and in Farvardin 1385 [April 2006], we achieved enriched uranium.” Aqazadeh then said: “During those days, once they called me at two o’clock in the morning and said that all the 50 centrifuges have exploded because the ‘UPS’ [uninterruptible power supply] in charge of controlling the electricity had not acted properly. Later we found out that the ‘UPS’ that we had imported through Turkey had been manipulated; and after this incident, we checked all the imported instruments before using them.”