Iran Hands IAEA Nuclear Blueprints

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Iran Hands IAEA Nuclear Blueprints

Tuesday November 13, 2007 6:46 PM

By GEORGE JAHN

Associated Press Writer

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Iran has met a key demand
of the U.N. nuclear agency, handing over long-sought
blueprints showing how to mold uranium metal into
the shape of warheads, diplomats said Tuesday.

Iran's decision to release the documents, which were
seen by U.N. inspectors two years ago, was seen as
a concession designed to head off the threat of new
U.N. sanctions.

But the diplomats said Tehran has failed to meet
other requests made by the International Atomic
Energy Agency in its attempts to end nearly two
decades of nuclear secrecy on the part of Iran.

The diplomats spoke to The Associated Press as IAEA
chief Mohamed ElBaradei put the finishing touches on
his latest report to his agency's 35-nation board of
governors for consideration next week. While
ElBaradei is expected to say that Iran has improved
its cooperation with his agency's probe, the findings
are unlikely to deter the United States, France and
Britain from pushing for a third set of U.N. sanctions.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7074306,00.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. And Cheney snarls in disgust and disappointment.

[robinlynne]

2. I'm glad someone is acting sanely.

[EVDebs]

3. Did the CIA give the Iranians blueprints to build a bomb?

Isn't this an old story ? Jan 6, 2006:


George Bush insists that Iran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. So why, six years ago, did the CIA give the Iranians blueprints to build a bomb? In an extract from his explosive new book, New York Times reporter James Risen reveals the bungles and miscalculations that led to a spectacular intelligence fiasco


http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/jan/05/energy.g2

"The CIA had given him (a Russian defector) the nuclear blueprints and then sent him to Vienna to sell them - or simply give them - to the Iranian representatives to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). With the Russian doing its bidding, the CIA appeared to be about to help Iran leapfrog one of the last remaining engineering hurdles blocking its path to a nuclear weapon. The dangerous irony was not lost on the Russian - the IAEA was an international organisation created to restrict the spread of nuclear technology."

Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan may have been right after all : Do we need the CIA ?
http://www.cdi.org/adm/Transcripts/541/

Are the Iranians just giving back what the CIA gave them ?

[The Stranger]

4. Don't worry -- they'll move the goal posts. Eventually, Chimp will demand that they "disarm" --

whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean -- or be invaded, tortured, murdered, raped, occupied and destroyed.

[bananas]

5. "IAEA officials were refused interviews with at least two top Iranian nuclear officials ..."

"Senior IAEA officials were refused interviews with at least two top Iranian nuclear officials suspected of possible involvement in a weapons program, they said. One was the leader of a physics laboratory at Lavizan, outside Tehran, which was razed before the agency had a chance to investigate activities there. The other was in charge of developing Iran's centrifuges, used to enrich uranium."

[ohio2007]

7. ...they have nothing to talk about ..so say the mullahs

give it a rest ;)

[ohio2007]

6. blueprints ...showing how to mold uranium metal into the shape of warheads,

snip....black market purchases of nuclear equipment decades ago that now serve as the backbone of its program to enrich uranium -
snip



The agency has been seeking possession of the blueprints since 2005, when it stumbled upon them among a batch of other documents during its examination of suspect Iranian nuclear activities. While agency inspectors had been allowed to examine them in the country, Tehran had up to now refused to let the IAEA have a copy for closer perusal

Why would they purchase 'black market' material? They have nothing to hide.
/sarc

ANother article;

Ahmadinejad: Iran should get ready for its global missions -
Tehran, Nov 12, IRNA
Iran-President
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday, "We should get ready to carry out our significant missions in the world." The president made the remark while addressing students, professors and officials of Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran.

snip
On Iran's nuclear programs, he said some domestic agents who were at the service of enemies tried to force Iran to deviate from right path and give up its legitimate rights, Ahmadinejad said.
"Some try to indicate that there is a wide gap between leadership and president in taking strategic decisions in the country but they are mistaken and instead we scoffed at them in our meetings," underlined the president.


snip
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fde_1194878656

hmmm....
I'l bet he won't be re elected just by the above statement he made

[fascisthunter]

8. I Really Think the US is Setting Iran Up

to look like they are trying to create nukes for the purpose of agression. I've been reading plenty of hit pieces regarding Iran and it looks just like the run-up to invading Iraq for WMD's. I don't buy any of it. If nukes were such a big issue, why help Pakistan and India? How about Israel?

[ohio2007]

9. The EU countries of France and Britain are wanting sanctions

imposed by other EU states outside of the UN. The US is willing to go through the UN as the US isn't an EU member.Besides,the US isn't going to invade Iran before Jan,2009.
That decision will be Hillary's dominatrix whip used on the mullahs holy asses

China leans on the mullahs to free up some papers...the EU postpones sanctions as the UN plays the peacemaker by saying we are making progress. And what sanctions are we really talking about? There will be no real sanctions imposed where EU makes big $ though trade.Maybe sanctions to protect their own industries from Iranina competition but no real trade barriers are going to be imposed

on another side note

China has a lot to do with the Pakistani nuke program. France has a lot to do with Israels program.
India?
dunno who gave info to the largest democracy in the world.They probably figured it all out on their own.

[fascisthunter]

12. All about oil

has nothing to do with fear of agression of Iran using a nuke.

[ohio2007]

13. And China needs oil, it's ironic

the mullahs and the 'Godless' communists see eye to eye when it comes to personal belief.

In the end, the current sanctions will remain. Iran wants them lifted, China wants the pipeline completed, so 'staying the course' will get China what they need from Iran.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3068785

[FarCenter]

10. Blueprints? They've got to be really old.

The blueprint process for reproducing drawings went out of use maybe back in the early '70s?

Haven't seen these for decades.

[Supersedeas]

11. as if facts mattered to the jack-booted neo-cons with war plans of their own