Inevitable: Iran Has Enough Material For A Nuke (Plus: US Foreign Policy Sophisticates Urge Obama To Abandon Sanctions Because "Threats" Don't Work)

From nuclear software codes stolen with impunity through international dithering to the inevitable conclusion:
Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors. The figures detailing Iran’s progress were contained in a routine update on Wednesday from the International Atomic Energy Agency... Iran had made 630 kilograms, or about 1,390 pounds, of low-enriched uranium... that was enough for a bomb, but they cautioned that the milestone was mostly symbolic, because Iran would have to take additional steps. Not only would it have to breach its international agreements and kick out the inspectors, but it would also have to further purify the fuel and put it into a warhead design — a technical advance that Western experts are unsure Iran has yet achieved... "They know how to do the enrichment. Whether they know how to design a bomb, well, that’s another matter."
As Hot Air notes that last part is mostly pro forma. Iran is more than willing to sit on their material while they build up the knowledge required to maintain a virtual arsenal. There's nothing in the NPT or in international law against "knowing lots of stuff." What's at stake is creating and having enough nuclear material for a bomb. Full stop. Thanks to moronic Iran analysts who spent decades promising moderation and to suppine diplomats who spent years giving Iran breathing room - the Islamic regime seems to have cleared that hurdle. If they haven't they soon will - the Bushehr reactor goes online next year.
Now these same egregiously wrong analysts are teaming up with Obama's anti-Israel, pro-Iran intelligence team to get him to stop pressuring Tehran:
US President-elect Barack Obama, plotting his strategy on Iran, is getting this advice from a panel of American diplomats and other experts: Don't pile on economic and military threats; it doesn't help. "An attack would almost certainly fail" while coercing Iran with economic sanctions has very little chance of success, the experts say in a report to be presented next week at a conference on the future of US-Iran policy. "Threats are not cowing Iran and the current regime in Teheran is not in imminent peril," according to a copy of the report obtained by The Associated Press.
Actually economic pressure is the only thing that's even marginally working against Iran. But for some reason US diplomats and academics enamored with Iran want Obama to abandon it. Strange, that.
In unrelated news, Iran is holding a celebratory conference emphasizing Obama's message of "hope and change." Yes, really.
References:
* Nuclear Plant Software Codes Given to Iran - FBI Says "No Problem" [LGF]
* Shockingly, New Toothless UN Resolution Fails To Slow Iranian Enrichment (Plus: Maybe Obama Can Talk To Them About It!) [MR]
* Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon [NYT]
* The obligatory “Iran has enough uranium for one nuclear bomb” post
* Smug Liberal Sophistication Untroubled By Undeniable Evidence That Hardliners Are Winning In Iran [MR]
* Iran wants Bushehr operational in 2009 [JPost]
* Obama's Top NSA And CIA Picks: Harsh On Israel, Sympathetic To Iran And Hezbollah [MR]
* Experts to Obama: Don't threaten Iran [JPost]
* Miliband: Iran is feeling the impact of sanctions [JPost]
* Iran to hold conference on Obama and future ties with US [M&C]
Previously:
* Obama Debate Strutting: Hey, Turns Out Iran Is Funding Sunni Terrorists
* Iran: Of Course Sunnis And Shiites Cooperate, Iran Will Never Abandon Hamas
* Biden's Delusions Of Genius And Relevance Getting Obnoxious (Plus: Liberal Foreign Policy Experts Also Just Don't Know Stuff)








