MORE ON IRAN, AND DON'T BE SHOCKED - AT 7:25 P.M. ET:  Reality walks in, from The Washington Times:

Iran has dramatically increased the amount of low-enriched uranium produced by its growing number of centrifuges that are part of its nuclear fuel production system.

According to a CIA report to Congress, "During the reporting period, Iran continued to expand its nuclear infrastructure and continued uranium enrichment and activities related to its heavy water research reactor, despite multiple United Nations Security Council Resolutions since late 2006 calling for the suspension of those activities."

The little-noticed report covering 2008 was released without comment by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on March 12. It was produced by the CIA's Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center, known as WINPAC, and approved by the National Intelligence Council.

COMMENT:  It was released on March 12th and is only being noticed now?  Is Washington completely nuts, or only partially nuts?  The media should be focusing on this every day.  Instead, we continue to talk about "engaging" Iran, but there is no sense of urgency.  And the Iranians are making clear that, when we do "engage," there'll be a lot of negotiations about what we'll then be negotiating about.  Time is critical here, but you'd never know it.

May 7, 2009