Posted on 11/18/2005 12:25:31 PM PST by areafiftyone
The UN atomic agency revealed today that Iran received black-market designs to encase weapons-grade uranium and diplomats said they appeared to be part of blueprints for a nuclear warhead.
A senior US diplomat called the find disturbing and other diplomats accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency said they expected the US and its allies to use it in their push to have Tehran referred to the UN Security Council as early as next week.
The revelations came as Iran said it had begun converting a second batch of uranium into gas, a step that brings it closer to producing the enriched uranium used to either generate electricity or build bombs.
The European Union, with US support, has been calling on Iran to re-impose a freeze on conversion since August. But the nation’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, told state TV the country had started converting a second batch of uranium.
“This job is done and the plant is continuing its activity,” Larijani said in the interview recorded late yesterday and broadcast today.
The IAEA said today that Iran received the detailed designs from the network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program. His network supplied Libya with information for its now-dismantled nuclear weapons programme that included an engineer’s drawing of an atomic bomb.
The document given to Iran in 1987 showed how to cast “enriched, natural and depleted uranium metal into hemispherical forms,” said a confidential IAEA report. IAEA officials refused to comment on the implications of the finding.
But diplomats close to the agency said it appeared to be a design for the core of a nuclear warhead. The report said Iran insisted it had not asked for the designs but was given them anyway by members of the nuclear network – something a senior official close to the agency said the IAEA was still investigating.
The diplomats requested anonymity in exchange for discussing the confidential report obtained by The Associated Press. The document was prepared for Thursday’s meeting of the IAEA’s 35-nation board, which could decide to refer Tehran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions for violating an international nuclear arms control treaty.
The IAEA srews up again (rolling eyes)Let's see..since they put a Egyptian in the driver's seat(El BARADI)..Pakistan got the bomb, North Korea got the bomb, Iran got the bomb, Libya worked on getting a bomb..and Iraq worked on getting the bomb. THIS IS NO ACCIDENT FOLKS!
I see Israel setting up a bombing run soon (via Iraq).
Iran Said to Have Nuclear Warhead Plans
AP article dated January 31, 2006!!
The document given to Iran in 1987
UGH.
the IAEA is hardly responible for the proliferation of weapons technique. It's not their job to get rouge nations and groups under controll - that's a job for the CIA, Mossad etc...
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