Iran’s Thursday Surprise - And More
Very curious, very odd.
As mentioned in the previous post, Iran announced today that they could enrich uranium “over 80 percent”, which is close to or perhaps is weapons grade. That is apparently the ’surprise’ they promised.
The response from the US? We don’t believe it, so we don’t have to pay any attention to it. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs curtly dismissed the announcement by saying it was “based on politics not on physics.”
Yet Reuters says that the main technical challenge is reaching a level of 3.5 percent , which the US accepted and IAEA inspectors were invited to witness. Reuters goes on to say that scaling up to 80 percent, is “relatively easy” after that.
The truth? I’m no nuclear scientist, so I don’t know.
Curiously, The Jerusalem Post website simply quotes Gibbs. No additional comment. No call for action. That’s kind of unusual.
The mossad-sponsored site has a one-liner about the announcement. No article. Not even the ‘don’t believe it’ quote. No editorial comment at all. Very odd.
Now mix in the fact that something really weird is happening to communications in Iran. Depending on the source, the Iranians have pulled the plug on Google, especially g-mail, either permanently or temporarily. If permanently, there is talk of a state run email service. There are also reports that Iran has stopped all electronic communications in any form, including land lines and wireless. Yet Microsoft told Reuters that they “had not experienced any disruptions to its Hotmail e-mail service in Iran”. All I know for sure is that the official Iranian website is completely inaccessible. But no way of telling who actually pulled the plug on it.
All this on the grand day of announcements and celebration of their overthrow of the Shaw of Iran. Which did have the specter of political protests and concomitant repression hanging darkly over it.
Complicating matters, g-mail is also in the news today in the US for having a huge disregard for privacy. If you have g-mail, then unless you work very hard at it, you automatically have Google Buzz. Apparently your contacts, and who knows what else, can be seen by about anyone. So are the Iranians suspecting an even deeper invasion of information from Google and whoever controls it, and have decided not to play that game? Or are they just being evil and despotic?
Again, I don’t know. And I doubt that I can find the truth of the matter.
Me, I get nervous when I can’t see what’s happening around me.
And that’s what’s happening at this hour.
