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Yankee06
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Flashbaks
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2/19/2010 10:19:51 AM
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Hey friends,
-It's almost 3 AM this morning, but I couldn't sleep because I was having flashbacks. Perhaps you can help me.
-My big question is: Is my president lying to me?
-See below article. In it the UN is telling me Iran may be producing nukes. My nation's allies tell me Iran may be producing nukes. My president tells me Iran may be producing nukes. They all tell me we need to take actions for tough sanctions and "nothing" can be taken of the table, including military action!!!
-In my flashbacks, I think I've heard this before, but then a lot of my friends told me my president was lying to me. What say those friends now? Is my president lying to me now????
ARTICLE:
IAEA Suspects Iran Is Working on Nuclear Payload
Updated: 18 Feb 2010
Joseph Schuman Senior Correspondent
(Feb. 18) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency suspects that Iran may be developing "a nuclear payload for a missile," according to a restricted report sent to the agency's board Thursday by Director General Yukiya Amano.
The Vienna-based agency's suspicions come amid a global diplomatic push by the Obama administration to isolate Iran and pressure its leaders to halt the enrichment of uranium, the key to creating fuel for an atomic weapon. The IAEA report is likely to bolster U.S. arguments for tougher sanctions at the United Nations.
The IAEA report also presents the most official contradiction yet to a 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate that suggested Iran suspended the military component of its nuclear activities in the fall of 2003, while supporting the Obama administration's suspicions that the program continues. The IAEA report is marked "restricted distribution" and wasn't made public, but the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington-based proliferation-tracking group, posted the report on its Web site.
Rohollah Vahdati, AFP / Getty Images
Iranian officials pose beneath a satellite rocket at its unveiling ceremony Feb. 3 in Tehran. A report from the International Atomic Energy Agency suggests that Iran has not dropped the military component of its nuclear program.
The White House said the report demonstrates Iran's violation of treaties it has signed and emphasized that it comes from a U.N. body that has been trying to engage Iran. "We've always said that if Iran failed to live up to those international obligations, that there would be consequences," Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said. "And I think this report is -- demonstrates for the world again the obligations they're failing to live up to."
The IAEA noted that while Iran suspended enrichment and related activities at its Natanz plant south of Tehran in November 2003, last week Iranian scientists began enriching about 4,000 pounds of uranium hexaflouride gas -- all or most of its stockpile -- to a level that is nearly 20 percent U-235. Further enrichment to weapons-grade levels of 80 to 90 percent is a relatively easy step after that.
Iran has provided the IAEA with spectrometry data showing that its new enrichment effort is succeeding.
While the IAEA maintains surveillance of the centrifuges that enrich the uranium under provisions of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the agency said additional measures need to be put in place to make sure Iran can't secretly remove the enriched uranium.
The Natanz plant "could currently produce enough weapon-grade uranium for a weapon in six months or less," according to an analysis prepared by the Institute for Science and International Security. A second enrichment plant is also capable of producing weapons-grade uranium, the IAEA report said.
The IAEA added that it has asked Iran to discuss those activities, but that Iran has so far refused to do so.
Tehran has been equally reticent to answer IAEA questions on a host of other issues: construction of an enrichment plan in a military zone near Qom that it acknowledged last fall only after Western intelligence agencies discovered it; possible work at a heavy-water plant that could violate Iranian promises made when the country signed the nonproliferation treaty; designs for nuclear plants that aren't compatible with Iranian claims of civilian use; and extensive information about nuclear-related activities that appear to come from Western intelligence sources and are "broadly consistent and credible" in their technical and historical detail.
Iran, the agency says, "remains the only state with significant nuclear activities which has a comprehensive safeguards agreement in force but is not implementing the provisions" of the treaty.
All these facts together raise "concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile," the report said. "These alleged activities consist of a number of projects and sub-projects, covering nuclear and missile related aspects, run by military related organizations."
The IAEA said it has also tried to discuss with Iran its military development of detonators and missile re-entry engineering that could be consistent with development of nuclear weaponry, but the Iranians haven't complied.
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