Posted on 12/04/2005 10:52:47 PM PST by FairOpinion
IAEA chairman Muhammad ElBaradei on Monday confirmed Israel's assessment that Iran is only a few months away from creating an atomic bomb.
"If Teheran indeed resumes its uranium enrichment in other plants, as threatened, it will take it only several months to produce a bomb," ElBaradei told The Independent, according to Army Radio.
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This should be breaking news.
Great! Now Israel or the US will have to do something or accept a Nuclear Iran.
Heck, we'll be lucky if the AM will leave it as frontpage news.
It's probably going to be banished to extended news by the time this post hits.
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Give that man a Nobel Prize.
Want to bet the UN doesn't even approve sanctions.
Well this is the fool from the UN. What is he going to do about it. NOthing just like the EU pansies.
Wouldn't surprise me if they didn't.
Exact quote from El Baradei: "I know they are trying to acquire the full fuel cycle. I know that acquiring the full fuel cycle means that a country is months away from nuclear weapons, and that applies to Iran and everybody else."
Despite the developments in Iran and North Korea, Mr ElBaradei said the most worrying nuclear threat came from the prospect of nuclear terrorism. "The deterrence concept does not apply in the case of terrorists. That is the most critical danger we are facing now because there is a lot of nuclear material and nuclear facilities that need to be adequately protected."
But it is generally believed that Iran holds all the cards at this point. If referred to the Security Council, the Iranians could use their oil-charged political influence to prevent any punitive action. And there remains the fear that the mullahs would pull out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, following the lead of North Korea which is believed to have enough weapons grade plutonium for at least six bombs.
While IAEA officials recognise that progress has been made in the EU negotiations, the talks so far have only bought time.
Let's open that Pandora's Box then.
It's already almost too late, and if they will acquire full nuclear capability, it will be too late.
By all this "negotiations" Iran is just buying itself time, so then they can blackmail the world.
We need to bomb these boys facilities to the ground. And, for the deep Earth facilities we need the better conventional bunker buster bombs we have been working on and fast.
Not good news.
El Baradei thinks we should just keep "negotiating."
"Mr ElBaradei said he could see no victors from an escalation. "Everybody would hurt," he said, referring to all parties in the dispute. "You would then open a Pandora's box. There would be efforts to isolate Iran; Iran would retaliate; and at the end of the day you have to go back to the negotiating table to find the solution."
Let's not get baited.
Why won't the US and/or Israel do something? At this point Mother Theresa and Mahatma Ghandi would saying "Bomb the @#$%#$%ers!"
Excerpts:
In 2002, the United States, Britain and Israel strongly suspected the new Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradai, of employing secret delaying tactics to help three Muslim nations get their nuclear weapons programs off the ground. The nations were Libya, Iran and Egypt.
Intelligence data showed those programs as being nourished by the technology, experience and expertise of Pakistan and North Korea, both motivated by their dire cash shortage. The assumption therefore in Washington, Jerusalem and London – later proved correct – was that the necessary funding was put up by Tehran, Tripoli and Cairo.
By means of delicate diplomacy during 2003 and 2004, the Bush administration persuaded Libya to relinquish its nuclear weapons industry. US military planes flew the centrifuges Pakistan supplied Libya for uranium enrichment and its yellow cake out of the country to the United States. Pakistan, prodded by Washington, “uncovered” a nuclear black market ring headed by Dr Qader Khan, the father of the Pakistan nuclear bomb, and Egypt confessed to possessing a supply of enriched uranium for military purposes.
While this was going on, Dr. ElBaradei and the IAEA teams stood on the sidelines in a supportive role.
These episodes demonstrate that the prime mover in dismantling the most dangerous focii of nuclear weapons production was the Bush administration rather than the UN nuclear watchdog and its director. It was only after these episodes were successfully concluded that ElBaradei realized that Washington had drawn up new rules for the international nuclear game. He began cooperating in earnest with America’s effort to disarm North Korea.
My personal opinion is, that if the Defeaticrats (Steyn's appropriate word for the Dems) hadn't whipped up anti-war semtiments, we would have wiped the Mullahs of Iran and Syria off the map already in the past couple of years.
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