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Experts responsible for monitoring Iran's nuclear program have discovered enough enriched uranium to make six atom bombs is missing from the country's main production facility at Isfahan, according to the Telegraph in London.U.S. spy satellites have identified a number of "suspicious sites" Iranians have not declared to nuclear inspectors. Intelligence officials believe the sites are being used for covert nuclear research.Meanwhile, reports coming from Israel continue to suggest it may be preparing for a military strike on Iran.The U.S. has refused to give Israel a security aid package for the past few months out of concern that Israel would use U.S.-provided military assistance to attack nuclear facilities in Iran. It included a large number of "bunker-buster" bombs, permission to use an air corridor to Iran, an advanced technology system and refueling airplanes, according to Haaretz.Bunker-buster GBU-28 bombs, weighing 2.2 tons each, can penetrate six meters of reinforced concrete.In 2005, the U.S. agreed to supply bunker-buster bombs to Israel, and some are believed to have been delivered by August 2006.According to Haaretz, Israel appears to have asked the U.S. for a relatively large number of bunker-buster bombs. The U.S. turned it down.The additional requests were apparently discussed during President Bush's visit to Israel in May, as well as during Defense Minister Ehud Barak's visit to Washington in July.In a series of senior-level meetings that followed, the U.S. has make clear to Israel that, for now, Washington is determined to stick with the diplomatic option to stop Iran's nuclear project. Jerusalem does not have the green light from Washington to launch an Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear sites.The Isfahan facility enriches raw "yellowcake" uranium into material that can be used for either nuclear power or atomic weapons.Tehran has announced in the last few weeks that 6,000 advanced P-2 centrifuges have been successfully installed and are operating at Isfahan.Isfahan is subject to supervision by inspectors from the U.N.'s Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA.So far, Iran has limited IAEA inspector access only to the final stage of the production process, where uranium is stored as uranium hexafluoride, or UF6, gas.The Telegraph reported nuclear experts believe 50 to 60 tons of uranium are now missing from the Isfahan plant. If enriched to weapons grade, it is enough uranium to produce five or six atom bombs.
For more on how Iranian officials allegedly removed significant quantities of uranium without inspectors' knowledge, read Jerome Corsi's Red Alert, the premium, online intelligence news source by the WND staff writer, columnist and author of the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, "The Obama Nation."
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