The IAEA has found traces of weapons grade uranium in Iran, now this organizational chart linking missile design, explosives tests and uranium enrichment has the IAEA seeking answers.
I can give the IAEA the answer right now...Iran is actively pursuing nuclear weapons.
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VIENNA/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. investigators want Iran to explain an organizational chart linking projects to process uranium, test explosives and modify a missile cone for a nuclear payload, diplomats briefed on the matter say.
They said a top U.N. nuclear watchdog official last week gave a detailed presentation of intelligence alleging illicit atomic "weaponization studies" by Iran and naming the man who ran them for the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics.
In a written summary given to Reuters of the presentation, they said Iran had refused to let inspectors interview Mohsen Fakrizadeh or visit sites where the experiments took place.LINKED PROJECTS IN CODE
In the power-point presentation, IAEA safeguards chief Olli Heinonen displayed an organizational diagram linking the three projects with numbered code names -- "5" for processing nuclear fuel, "110" for purported tests of an atomic device and "111" for a longer-range, Shahab-3 missile adapted to carry it.
Project 111 was also known as the "Orchid Office".
One of dozens of slides screened by Heinonen cited a progress report on the related projects for the period July 9, 2003-January 14, 2004. Other files showed the warhead design project began in July 2002.
U.S. spy services estimated Iran halted outright "weaponization" work in 2003 but also said it continued efforts to master technology applicable to yielding nuclear explosives.
The summary said Heinonen showed diagrams depicting tests with explosives to be placed in a shaft 400 meters (1,300 feet) underground and detonated from 10 km (6 miles) away.
Electrical bridge-wire (EBW) detonators would be used to ensure the several fissile layers of the warhead blew up in a chain reaction within 130 nanoseconds.
"The high-tension firing systems and multiple EBW detonators fired simultaneously are key components of nuclear weapons," the summary quoted Heinonen as saying.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
IAEA Releases Intel of Iranian Nuclear Weaponization
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Nothing to see here. The NIE said so. So did AJ. Sleep well.
I remember very well as a kid I had to listen to the likes of AhmadiNezhad rant on about how their supposed Messiah "Mahdi" is going to subjugate the world using nuclear weapons. And this is even before they came to power, when they were supposedly on a short leash.
These idiots think that having nuclear WMD's would make them invulnerable. The morons don't even think to look north and remember that there was a Soviet Union with numerous nuclear missiles but was finally defeated by the west.
look to the north , how bout if they keep it up they might have to look to the sky , for those really cool looking bat type planes we have !the beautiful B2 bombers , they might get a nuclear weapon yet !
I totally believe that if Imadinnerjacket is still in power once Iran obtains nuclear weapons he will use it first chance he gets. Just to bring back the "mahdi". Crazy
You listen to A-jad's rhetoric and you know this guy is nothing but a wack attack waiting to happen.
You might also enjoy reading Mullahs in Space
about the Persian Pipsqueaks space program and where it fits into his Nukes for Allah program.
Plus, a space program, especially a space-launch capability, is critical to developing ICBM capacity. (Think back to the panic caused by the Soviets' launch of Sputnik in 1957: It meant that Soviet ICBMs weren't far behind.)
Theoretically, if you can launch a ballistic missile that can place a satellite into earth orbit, you have the scientific wherewithal to hit a target anywhere on Earth with a warhead, including a nuke.
Our good friends in Pakistan and North Korea are helping out Iran's space (ICBM) program.
Iran built rocket in 9 months
To the Anonymous First Post:
Hmm ... Which is the newest information, the NIE or IAEA? I do believe it is the IAEA. Which debunks the NIE as most pundits have done already.
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