Iran has begun installation of 6,000 new centrifuges which will be added to the 3,000 centrifuges already producing enriched uranium for their nuclear weapons program (that they don’t have).

The workhorse of Iran’s enrichment program is the P-1 centrifuge, which is run in cascades of 164 machines. But Iranian officials confirmed in February that they had started using the IR-2 centrifuge that can churn out enriched uranium at more than double the rate.

A total of 3,000 centrifuges is the commonly accepted figure for a nuclear enrichment program that is past the experimental stage and can be used as a platform for a full industrial-scale program that could churn out enough enriched material for dozens of nuclear weapons.

What this means is that America’s brilliant intelligence services who recently got a thrill by knee-capping President Bush with their ridiculous intelligence estimate claiming that Iran suspended it’s weapons program several years ago.

As a result of the CIA’s continued incompetence and dishonest ambushing of the executive branch, Iran will indeed become a nuclear power unless Israel steps in to stop them.

-Chris Jones