The IAEA has some questions, which may be difficult for Iranian President Ahmedinejad to answer. The answer I anticipate is some revisionist history piece that gets us all giggling at how stupid he is, while Iran continues to make bombs.
VIENNA/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. investigators want Iran to explain an organizational chart linking projects to process uranium, test explosives and modify a missile cone for a nuclear payload, diplomats briefed on the matter say.
They said a top U.N. nuclear watchdog official last week gave a detailed presentation of intelligence alleging illicit atomic “weaponization studies” by Iran and naming the man who ran them for the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics.
In a written summary given to Reuters of the presentation, they said Iran had refused to let inspectors interview Mohsen Fakrizadeh or visit sites where the experiments took place.
The summary also confirmed leaks that the briefing for the first time indicated Iran continued the three projects into 2004, calling into question a U.S. intelligence estimate in December that said Iran shelved weaponization research in 2003.
Any takers on a bet this is going to be yet another CIA failure?
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Note that this “new evidence” is the from same old “Laptop of Death” that the US has been shopping around for 3 year…and pretty much laughed at by everyone as an obvious plant.
Funny how according to the lates IAEA report itself, the US only provided the info to the IAEA a few days before the IAEA was set to release a report that essentially cleared Iran. And note that that the IAEA report refers to these as “alleged studies” and says that it has “no credible information in this regard.”
Maybe you’re right. I do know that our intelligence agencies don’t like to divulge information they don’t have to, so the timing aspect is not suspicious to me. Additionally, the CIA is not terribly interested, based upon the NIE in providing information which allows President Bush to make saber rattling, so the fact that the CIA would present information to the IAEA is also not suspicious. I guess we wait and see.
We gave Iran the nuclear information they stared with and continue to do so thru Russia, if you do your homework on the internet you can find it. I don’t think we as Americans should be calling anyone stupid in this day and age, we have been hoodwinked by the Bush crime family. It is sad to say we knew Iraq had WMDs because we gave them to Iraq during the Reagan/Bush years to use on Iran. We were also giving weapons to Iran which started the Iran Contra scandal. Why we gave Iraq poisonous gas was so they didn’t hurt the Oilfield infrastructure and we had to get rid it because of the Geneva Convention rules . Just check out Prescot Bush’s background with a google search if you are a concerned American as I am.