Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Iran Calls U.N. Nuke Documents ' Fakes '


Iran finds itself now on their heels even with their normally cooperative and subservient United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency.
United Nations' representatives were presented with evidence that Iran had been working on nuclear weapons AFTER the 2003 point where the U.S. report said that they had stopped activity. And of course, Iran has stepped up to the plate at this point and called the documents fake. Yeah, right. Is Iran going to try and spin now that the IAEA is out to get them? Haha. The IAEA has been their best friend for years and it's probably the fact that the evidence is so overwhelming that the jihadist lenient IAEA couldn't hold the evidence back any longer.
Look at this from the article from AP:


A senior diplomat who attended the IAEA meeting said that among the material shown was an Iranian video depicting mock-ups of a missile re-entry vehicle. He said IAEA Director General Oli Heinonen suggested the component - which brings missiles back from the stratosphere - was configured in a way that strongly suggests it was meant to carry a nuclear warhead.
Other documentation showed the Iranians experimenting with warheads and missile trajectories where "the height of the burst ... didn't make sense for conventional warheads," he said.


Let's face it. About the time that the United Nations has all the evidence it needs that Iran has been working towards nuclear weapons, Iran will have nuclear weapons. And then what? Is the world going to entrust the U.N. to go in and get rid of Iran's nukes? A classic case of too little, too late.


Iran Dismisses Nuke Documents As Fakes
By GEORGE JAHN
Associated Press Writer

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency presented documents that diplomats said indicate Iran may have focused on a nuclear weapons program after 2003 - the year that a U.S. intelligence report says such work stopped.
Iran again denied ever trying to make such arms. Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency, dismissed the information showcased by the body Monday as "forgeries."
He and other diplomats, all linked to the IAEA, commented after a closed-door presentation to the agency's 35-nation board of intelligence findings from the U.S. and its allies and other information purporting to show Iranian attempts to make nuclear arms.
A summarized U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, made public late last year, also came to the conclusion that Tehran was conducting atomic weapons work. But it said the Iranians froze such work in 2003.
Asked whether board members were shown information indicating Tehran continued weapons-related activities after that time, Simon Smith, the chief British delegate to the IAEA, said: "Certainly some of the dates ... went beyond 2003."
He did not elaborate. But another diplomat at the presentation, who agreed to discuss the meeting only if not quoted by name, said some of the documentation focused on an Iranian report on nuclear activities that some experts have said could be related to weapons.
She said it was unclear whether the project was being actively worked on in 2004 or the report was a review of past activities. Still, any Iranian focus on nuclear weapons work in 2004 would at least indicate continued interest past the timeframe outlined in the U.S. intelligence estimate.
A senior diplomat who attended the IAEA meeting said that among the material shown was an Iranian video depicting mock-ups of a missile re-entry vehicle. He said IAEA Director General Oli Heinonen suggested the component - which brings missiles back from the stratosphere - was configured in a way that strongly suggests it was meant to carry a nuclear warhead.
Other documentation showed the Iranians experimenting with warheads and missile trajectories where "the height of the burst ... didn't make sense for conventional warheads," he said.

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