WHAT?  WHAT?  THIS CANNOT BE - AT 5:39 P.M. ET:  These constant insults toward the peaceful government of Iran must stop.  They offend our multicultural sensibilities.  From The New York Times:

WASHINGTON — International inspectors who gained access to Iran’s newly revealed underground nuclear enrichment plant raised questions in a report released on Monday about whether the country may have also concealed other nuclear factories.

Oh the smears. 

So far Iran has denied that there are other hidden sites in addition to the one built deep underground on a military base north of the holy city of Qum. The inspectors were given access to the half-built plant late last month and reported that they had found it in “an advanced state” of construction, but that no centrifuges — the fast-spinning machines needed to make nuclear fuel – had yet been installed.

They confirmed American and European intelligence reports that the site was built to house about 3,000 centrifuges, enough to produce enough material for one or two nuclear weapons a year. But that is too small to be useful in the production of fuel for civilian nuclear power, which is what Iran insists was the intended purpose of the site.

Just a misunderstanding.  Undoubtedly.

The plant’s existence was revealed in September, as many as seven years after construction had begun.

Certainly gives us confidence that we know all we should know.  And, as Obama dithers, Iran gets closer to a nuclear weapon. 

November 16, 2009