US: Iran making headway in nuclear program

The Bush administration said Monday Iran was making headway in developing nuclear weapons, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried to iron out differences with her Russian counterpart on a resolution designed to stop the program with economic sanctions.

While not predicting when Iran would join the nuclear club, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the Iranians were trying to perfect centrifuge technology and the operation of centrifuges.

"It's a very tricky matter of perfecting centrifuge technology so you can actually enrich all the uranium," McCormack said. "So, yes, they are going along their way in trying to go down the various pathways."

The spokesman provided no details of Rice's telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. "They went over some of the outstanding issues," McCormack said.

Personal note: US won't be able to tell Russia to impose economic sanctions as she won't. Russia is secretly abetting Iran & helping with the nuclear program etc. So why would they agree to economic sanctions which will stop the bomb production? Their common foes are US and Israel. They will attack Israel as prophesied in the bible in the future. I think it's going to be soon. I think Iran will perfect the centrifuge technology somehow, maybe with aid from Russia, China, DPRK & Pakistan. Then they will use this technology to produce the bomb & then invade Israel, thinking that their nuclear bomb will protect them from Israel's nuclear capability by threatening MAD. I don't know how it all plays out cos i am no politician or tactician. We will have to wait and see how God comes to the rescue of the Jews.