Posted on 08/02/2009 6:07:05 PM PDT by Steelfish
August 3, 2009
Iran is ready to build an N-bomb - it is just waiting for the Ayatollah's order
James Hider, Richard Beeston in Tel Aviv and Michael Evans, Defence Editor
Iran has perfected the technology to create and detonate a nuclear warhead and is merely awaiting the word from its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to produce its first bomb, Western intelligence sources have told The Times.
The sources said that Iran completed a research programme to create weaponised uranium in the summer of 2003 and that it could feasibly make a bomb within a year of an order from its Supreme Leader.
A US National Intelligence Estimate two years ago concluded that Iran had ended its nuclear arms research programme in 2003 because of the threat from the American invasion of Iraq. But intelligence sources have told The Times that Tehran had halted the research because it had achieved its aim — to find a way of detonating a warhead that could be launched on its long-range Shehab-3 missiles.
They said that, should Ayatollah Khamenei approve the building of a nuclear device, it would take six months to enrich enough uranium and another six months to assemble the warhead.
The Iranian Defence Ministry has been running a covert nuclear research department for years, employing hundreds of scientists, researchers and metallurgists in a multibillion-dollar programme to develop nuclear technology alongside the civilian nuclear programme.
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Anyone remember that famous video with the imam slapping himself over and over while sitting in a throne in front of crowds of people, while his handlers try to control him.
weird to think people like that might turn world history
This is BS. They will start building bombs ASAP.
Have any of the imams warned them NOT to build bombs? (I didn’t think so!)
Israel is not the only country that is aghast at this development. So is Saudi Arabia. What an unlikely twosome, but between them, Iran may soon get squashed flat.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to approve Ahmadinejad as election winner
Times Online | August 3, 2009 | Martin Fletcher
Posted on 08/02/2009 6:15:39 PM PDT by myknowledge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2306786/posts
This is a surprise?
Does anyone believe our all seeing, all knowing president
didn’t know this? I knew this without having any intelligence assets at all.
Still, he goes with his hand out to them?
That is the definition of insanity.
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