Posted on 03/05/2006 6:10:52 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Iran negotiator announces: We duped West on nukes
Posted: March 5, 2006
Hassan Rowhan
Iran's top nuclear negotiator, in a speech to the nation's leading Islamic clerics and academics, has admitted what many in U.S. intelligence have been saying all along – namely, Tehran duped the West on its nuclear program by continuing its development while using diplomatic talks to lull the Europeans into inaction.
Hassan Rowhani led talks with the EU3 – Germany, France and the UK – until last year and part of his job, reports the London Telegraph, was to play for time after Iran's nuclear program was exposed by dissidents in 2002.
At the closed meeting of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, Rowhani boasted that during talks to forestall Iran's nuclear program, which intelligence sources in the U.S. saw as part of an effort to build nuclear weapons, Tehran completed the installation of equipment needed to convert yellowcake at its Isfahan plant. The Europeans, he said, were convinced nothing was occurring at the plant.
"From the outset, the Americans kept telling the Europeans, 'The Iranians are lying and deceiving you and they have not told you everything.' The Europeans used to respond, 'We trust them'," he said.
Rowhani's frankness, it appears, was motivated by internal criticisms from hardliners that he had negotiated away too much in recent talks with the Europeans. His comments, published in a journal available to the regime's elite, seem designed to defend his performance.
"When we were negotiating with the Europeans in Teheran we were still installing some of the equipment at the Isfahan site," he said. "There was plenty of work to be done to complete the site and finish the work there. In reality, by creating a tame situation, we could finish Isfahan."
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That's exactly what they are. Talks, not actions.
Sadly, I think you're right. Where on the left coast do you live? The hard liners hate Hollywood, so they might be tempted. I'm in Houston, which is vunerable because daddy George & Barbara live here and for other strategic reasons. But I still think they'll be most tempted leveling New York City.
I'm up in the northwest...my opening line favorite, however, would have to be Tel Aviv. For a U.S. city the odds would be on NYC, Wash, LA.
And continue to be duped.
I'm bookmarking this harsh reality thread.
Of course I hope I am wrong, but I think it will be several mushroom clouds. I remember Benjamin Netanyahu went before Congress, after 9/11 and told them the terrorists will throw nucs at us in the future. Not many people are listening.
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