Iran And The Khan Con

IBD Editorials ^ | September 9, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

Nuclear Terror: A key U.S. official admits that Iran is nearing "a dangerous and destabilizing" threshold. Rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan brags of how he helped the Islamofascist state. Will we ever act?

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"Iran is now either very near or in possession already of sufficient low-enriched uranium to produce one nuclear weapon, if the decision were made to further enrich it to weapons grade," Glyn Davies, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency, told the IAEA's board of governors this week in Vienna.

That means, Davies added, that Iran is now "closer to a dangerous and destabilizing possible breakout capacity." And he expressed the U.S.' "serious concerns that Iran is deliberately attempting, at a minimum, to preserve a nuclear weapons option."

Well, no kidding. Anyone not in a deep sleep for the last five years knows that. Yet Davies' statement gets reported as if it should be some kind of shock.

In defiance of no fewer than three different sets of economic sanctions approved by the U.N. Security Council, Iran continues full steam ahead with its uranium enrichment and heavy water activities, as IAEA inspectors reported last month. The toothless global nuclear "watchdog," for once discarding its rose-colored glasses, now admits that it cannot rule out military purposes behind Iran's violations.

Tehran has now produced more than 1,500 kilograms of low-enriched uranium, with which it might be possible to make more than 20 kilograms of highly-enriched, weapons-grade uranium — enough to build at least one nuclear weapon.

This situation, which diplomats such as Davies now wring their hands over, was predicted for years by everyone possessing a trace of common sense.

[Cindy]

A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

[Kaslin]

[Bratch]

[JasonC]

No, we won't ever act. If Bush with a Cheney and a Rumsfeld advising him did nothing for 8 straight years, it is ridiculous to expect action from a dedicated pacifist on the same subject. Kindly remove your head from your posterior and face reality for a change.