From BBC this hour:
Iran declares key nuclear advance
Uh oh.
Iran's president says his nation has successfully produced the enriched uranium needed to make nuclear fuel. The UN has given Iran 30 days to halt its nuclear research.
UH OH.
The US responded to the latest news by saying that Iran was "moving in the wrong direction".
Yeah, so are we. This is not good. More below fold.
In a televised speech in the north-western holy city of Mashhad, Mr Ahmadinejad said: "I am officially announcing that Iran has joined the group of those countries which have nuclear technology. We will continue our path until we achieve production of industrial-scale enrichment."
His audience broke into cheers and chants of "Allahu akbar" (God is great).
I'm breaking out into a chorus of Oy Gavolt (Oh my God).
Mr Ahmadinejad urged the West to respect what he called Iran's right to peaceful atomic technology.
He said the "nuclear fuel cycle had been completed" with the enrichment on Sunday at the Natanz plant.
Vice-president and atomic energy chief Gholam Reza Aghazadeh confirmed Iran had also produced 110 tons of uranium gas needed to feed the enrichment process - twice the amount it said last year that it had produced.
The White House condemned Iran's announcement.
Spokesman Scott McClellan said: "If the regime continues to move in the direction that it is currently, then we will be talking about the way forward with the other members of the Security Council and Germany."
Can we all read between the lines this time?
We need help from our allies. We, as in the American people, need our allies to help us stop this madhouse we've got going in Washington DC. The Iranians aren't slowing down, and we need the real adults in charge of how we get down from the cliff's edge here.
Here's the money information, kids. They are nowhere near bomb level output yet. It's all civilian level.
Earlier ex-Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had told Kuwait's Kuna news agency Tehran had operated 164 centrifuges for the first time, achieving "industrial output".
The 164 centrifuges are needed to provide the cascade that creates enriched uranium.
But the process would only create the low-level enrichment needed for nuclear fuel.
Iran would need thousands of centrifuges to create the highly enriched uranium needed for nuclear weapons.
Experts say Iran is years away from having a nuclear bomb.
Years, as in at least two. Two years, as in when this clown is almost out the door. And it may be more than two years, when they no longer have a clown running things in Iran.
WE NEED TO GET BACK FROM THE BRINK.
We may need to march in the streets.
We need a plan NOW.