Iran Dismisses "Fabricated" Nuke Evidence

Ambassador To U.N. Says Terror Group Feeding Nuke Agency, U.S. Bad Intelligence

(AP)  Iran's ambassador to the United Nations said that an Iranian opposition group is feeding fabricated evidence to Washington that purports to show the Tehran government tried to produce nuclear weapons.

Ambassador Mohammad Khazee said in an interview Monday with The Associated Press that the U.S. is getting unreliable intelligence from the Mujahedeen Khalq, also known as the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, which was allied with Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. The U.S. and European Union list it as a terrorist group.

Khazee insisted Iran has resolved all outstanding issues about its nuclear program and said Tehran should not face any new U.N. sanctions. He warned that new sanctions would harm "the credibility" of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The U.N. Security Council, however, is expected to approve a third round of sanctions against Iran later this week for its defiance of a council demand that it suspend uranium enrichment until it has allayed suspicions about its nuclear program.

Khazee said at a news conference that if new sanctions are approved "it would not be logical to comply with the resolution."

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice disputed the Iranian assessment of the IAEA report, saying it provided "very strong" grounds for the Security Council to move ahead quickly with new sanctions.

She cited Iran's continued enrichment work and its failure to respond credibly to U.S. allegations that Iran conducted research into high explosives and missile design in the 1990s that were linked to atomic weapons.

Khazee told reporters that when the IAEA raised the U.S. allegations and showed Iran some documents Feb. 15, his government knew the papers were fabricated because "they gave us some names that ... do not exist" and named some people who "have not been involved in the nuclear program of Iran."

The IAEA report noted Iran had rejected documents that link it to missile and explosives experiments and other work connected to a possible nuclear weapons program, calling the information false and irrelevant.

"I'm afraid to say that, according to my information, some of these allegations were produced or fabricated by a terrorist group - which are listed as a terrorist group in the United States and somewhere else in Europe," Khazee said in the AP interview.

He told AP later he was referring to the Mujahedeen Khalq, which was declared a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department in 1997. Last June, the European Union decided to retain the Paris-based opposition group on its terrorist list.

Last week, Mohammad Mohaddesin, a senior official of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a coalition of Iranian opposition groups that includes the Mujahedeen Khalq, charged that the Iranian regime is still working on atomic arms and has speeded up its weapons program.

Speaking in Brussels, Belgium, Mohaddesin said his group had given the IAEA evidence to support his charge.

Asked about Khazee's remarks Monday, Mohaddessin called the ambassador's allegation "absolutely false" and "nonsense."

"One could not expect anything else from a regime which is caught between a rock and a hard place," he said in a telephone interview with AP's office in Paris.

"We are sure 100 percent of what we revealed, that the Iranian regime is working to produce a nuclear warhead in Khojir," a facility on the southeast edge of Tehran, Mohaddesin said. "If the Iranian regime is sincere in this regard, why don't they say to inspectors we open the doors to these facilities?"

Khazee insisted Iran's nuclear program is purely peaceful and said his country is working with the IAEA to answer any questions other nations have.

"Iran has been cooperating with the IAEA more seriously and more sincerely and beyond its obligation, so somebody should ask the secretary of state where these questions come from," Khazee said.

Although uranium enrichment can be used to make material for nuclear warheads, Iran maintains its program is designed to produce lower-purity material that would fuel nuclear reactors to generate electricity.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seen at left, said over the weekend that the IAEA report vindicated Iran and warned that Tehran would take unspecified "decisive reciprocal measures" against any country that imposed additional sanctions on Iran.

Asked what those measures might be, Khazee told AP: "Definitely, it's not the matter of military action by Iran to any country. But there are some other elements that give Iran (the) upper hand in the region - economically, politically - to defend its right."

As for U.S.-Iranian relations under a new U.S. president next year, he said, "The most important issue, I believe, is to have a real picture, an impression about the Islamic Republic of Iran's power as well as constructive role in the region."

"I believe whoever understand that, they will think about having a better attitude vis a vis the great Iranian nation, as well as the government and the Islamic Republic," Khazee said.

The problem now, he said, is that the U.S. and a few other countries "do not like to see a powerful Iran in the region."

[joyous88]

bush and his conservative agenda, all immoral, greed driven,

this will be the republicOns next war of choice

more money for haliburton

[bluestardad]

GET THE ISRAELIS OUTTA THE AMERICA GOVERNMENT AND WE WILL GET THE TRUTH OUTTA THE MIDDLE EAST!

THERE IS NO PLACE FOR THEIR ADGENDA IN AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY INTEREST!

AMERICA STAND UP OR SHUT UP!

[woodjd42]

even though it is hard to believe something out of Iran, is is even harder to believe anything that comes from this administration. They have not told the truth about anything yet and doesn''t look as if they ever will.

[woodjd42]

Really guys, this "there''''s a Jew behind every rock" stuff is as tiresome as the neocon''''s "there''''s a terrorist behind every tree" rhetoric. Both are equally annoying already.



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Posted by rafterman1

True statement.
take the right side version and then the left side version and find the truth somewhere in the middle.

[jwind11]

bush and his conservative agenda, all immoral, greed driven,

this will be the republicOns next war of choice

more money for haliburton, less entitlements for worthless liberals.

Posted by joyous88

why do people need entitlements?

[hillaryin08]

GET THE ISRAELIS OUTTA THE AMERICA GOVERNMENT AND WE WILL GET THE TRUTH OUTTA THE MIDDLE EAST!

THERE IS NO PLACE FOR THEIR ADGENDA IN AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY INTEREST!

AMERICA STAND UP OR SHUT UP!


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Posted by bluestardad at 06:36 AM : Feb 26, 2008

Why not go one step further and put them in ovens?

Saig Hail!!!!

[creeper00]

Let me see if I have this right. We list the Mujahedeen Khalq as a terrorist organization...but we get intelligence information from them.

George W. Bush is not a sane man.

[sociallyjust]

bluestardad seems to be an angry, hostile, hate-filled individual who goes out of his way to incite others re HIS PERSONAL problems and deficiencies.
It is suggested that you, bluestardad, expend and focus your energies on stopping the very deceptive and extremely dangerous, religiously fanatical, Iranian leaders from continuing to acquiring nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, which they will use for causing vast death and destruction, as well as for imposing THEIR SICK RELIGIOUS AGENDA ON YOU !
Stop your hating. Get out of the hating business, bluestardad. As others have noted, it is boring to read your rantings.

[vet_sk]

And Hillary voted for the resolution against Iran. Even after she knew the information that career professional in intelligence had in their NIE that countered the claim. Hillary just didn''t think they would be able to get it released and she would be exonerated. I can''t figure it out. Does she want another war?

Would you trust anyone who voted for the Iraq War to sit on your jury if you were wrongly indicted?

[oleander8]

It''s a cinch the world isn''t going to believe America on an issue like this. We lost our credibility when the administration lied about WMD in Iraq.

[easeup-2009]

"even though it is hard to believe something out of Iran, is is even harder to believe anything that comes from this administration. They have not told the truth about anything yet and doesn''''t look as if they ever will.

Posted by woodjd42 at 06:57 AM : Feb 26, 2008"

This guy was full of it too, then:

"People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons."

Former President Clinton
During an interview on CNN''s "Larry King Live"
July 22, 2003

http://freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes.html#wR6nIpoLli

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/23/clinton.iraq.sotu/

[singingrick]

Nooooo!!!!

I want a war now!

Father why hast thou forsaken my jihad?

[demslie]

Finally we can visit our good friends in North Korea who, like IRAN "Only wanted nuclear energy for peaceful purposes" right up until the time they exploded their first atomic bomb. Oh, well, we Democrats still love those crazy little Communists so much more than those bad old Americans.

[payasyougo]

It is only a matter of time before Iran explodes their first test nuke bomb. North Korea took to that path during the 90s while half our country had it''s head in the sand. Who was it that would ignore problems such as these and said "Not in our time."? The question is, what do you do with them when they reach bomb status? Probably the same thing we are doing with North Korea now.

Just hoping it doesn''t end up in the hands of a group bent on inflicting damage to another.

History always reveals whether hope or action is the better course.

[Marie Zarankevich]

Viruses can have very weird and specific effects. What if all this violence, murder, and mayhem going on all over the world right now was due to some unknown virus. Stranger things have happened. Perhaps someone should map the progress of the outbreaks, and see if there''s a pattern of contagion. It could explain a lot of things.

[hungry1968]

Iran Dismisses "Fabricated" Nuke Evidence
Ambassador To U.N. Says Terror Group Feeding Nuke Agency, U.S. Bad Intelligence




The truly sad thing is that with all of the history of lying and deceit committed by this administration, and with all of our credibility and believability squandered away, we the American people don''t know who to really believe in regards to this story.

Truly, this is a very, very sad commentary on how badly our political system has been hijacked.

[sociallyjust]

Iranian maniacal leader, Mahmoud AchMAD-I-NEEDaSPANK, has a DEATH WISH. Ordinarily, that may accepted OUTSIDE Iran to be the normal course of events as related to IRAN, and such wishes being an INTERNAL matter. However, the problem for the entire world boils down to the following:

That death wish is not only for himself and his nation of religiously twisted, PRIMITIVE AND WARLIKE Islamic clerics. It is a DEATH WISH for ALL MANKIND, for the purpose of ushering in the
12th Imam/MESSIANIC ERA, as is fantasy in the minds of THOSE FORCED INTO BEING MOSLEM !!!

Add nuclear technology in the hands of demented Islamofascist ideology, and we can expect that FULL DOOMSDAY SCENARIO.

CONCLUSION:
The world must prevent ROGUE, TERRORIST-SUPPORTING IRAN from acquiring ANY nuclear technology, as THE IRANIAN THREAT POSES THE GREATEST DANGER TO OUR PLANET IN MANKIND''S HISTORY.
Based on Iran''s stated ''ideological purpose'' and on its ultimately imposing strict, GLOBAL Islamic rule (OR HELL ON EARTH), any means to prevent the same - including military action - would be justifiable.

[extremophil]

Yeah, sure......it''s all a big misunderstanding by the U.S. Let''s just forget it and have another Capuchino latte''.

[lochlan-2009]

Terrorist Condoleeza Rice is fabricating future WMD''s in Iran now. Wait, isn''t Iran going to build a pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Arabian Sea. Sounds like that might cut into the profits for Rice''s company, Chevron, and their pipeline that is running down through Afghanistan (the reason we''re REALLY there) into Pakistan, and into India and the Arabian Sea. Wait, isn''t Iran rich with Uranium Ore ($1/lb in 2000, $140/lb in 2006) that they are now going to enrich and ship to India and China for the 30 new nuclear powerplants in China alone by 2020. Hey, that might upset Coneco''s profit margin. I wonder why the "terrorists" are fabricating nuke evidence.

[lochlan-2009]

By the way, does anyone here no what company sold the centrifuges to Iran?

I''ll give you a hint, it''s former CEO is now our VP.

[clestes-2009]

This is so dam* stupid. Iran is NOT developing nuclear weapons. They have freely cooperated with IAEA and the HAVE THE RIGHT TO NUCLEAR POWER.

They have every right to have nuclear power plant used for energy. These idiots keep trying to make out that it is dangerous for them to have the "knowledge" of how to make a bomb.

Hell, any high school physics kids can tell you that!!

What you must have is specialized equipment, lots of knowlegable people and specialized fuel, plus a BIG lab.

Bush is just wanting to get Iran to knucle under and say "uncle" and that is a LOST CASE. He will not be able to do anything in the short time left and leave it up to Obama to deal with Iran. And I have no doubt he will do a better job. Anyone could do a better job than shrub has done!

[prinzowhales]

The lies continue...Ahmadinejad never called for the destruction of Israel...He said that the ''regime'' that controlled Quds [Jerusalem] would disappear from the pages of history. He was quoting a religious figure...and he said also noted that the Communist regime and the Nazi regime did likewise when it once looked like they were all powerful.

Iran has not waged a war of aggression in over two hundred years. It has been attacked and occupied by the US and UK during World War II...its democratic government was overthrown by Kermit Roosevelt and the CIA using false flag operations and the murderous Shah and SAVAK were installed...The US backed and supported Saddam Hussein''s war of aggression against Iran.

Iran is not seeking to control Saudi Arabia. The Arabian princes fear their people have an interest in arousing conflict and fear against the Iranians. It is obvious that the Iranians cannot project sustained power beyond their borders very effectively. Any advance into the Arabian Pennisula would give our air power a field day.

The Saudis see the price of their oil increase as Iraqi and Iranian oil is taken off the market.

[yongamerica]

Prinzowhales your comments could only be constructed by and Iranian propaganda machine. Everything bad Iran has said and done that you''ve tried to disspell is more than adequately documented as the unabashed truth.

"Ahmadinejad never called for the destruction of Israel" He continues to call for Israels destruction to this day.

"Iran has not waged a war of aggression in over two hundred years." Iran is operating the largest mercenary army in the world operating in Lebanon. Gaza Strip, Iraq, Africa, and Asia. Iran spends over 8 million dollars a month on salaries to its fighters in Iraq alone.
Prinzowhales you are obvious loosing your propaganda war because there is no truth to your blatant lies. I do get a big laugh at how feeble your attempts are though, keep up the entertainment factor.

[soldierboy37]

Iran is so full of ***. We can thank these inbred retards for most of the IED/EFP deaths of our soldiers in Iraq. Thats ok though. Whats the old saying?....what comes around goes around. They''ll get theirs sooner or later just like we did with the Russians.

[noloyalisti]

I just hope no one on here is believing the right wing Christian nut jobs who run America. We are talking about bush, his crime family and the large corporations (including the mainstream media) who are profiting on war. Like this article, how embarrassing that people believe it as news.

Anyone who believes anything that comes out of these conservative minded organizations and their representatives should really consider their own sanity. Just follow the money and you will know the truth.

[rowdytexan2]

"(AP) Iran''s ambassador to the United Nations said that an Iranian opposition group is feeding fabricated evidence to Washington that purports to show the Tehran government tried to produce nuclear weapons. "

This should read "an Iranian opposition group being paid by the Neocons to fabricate reasons for the US citizens to cower in fear of Iran having the possibility of getting a nuke someday..."

And there are those who will blindly buy into this krap.

[ajmarine1]

"(AP) Iran''''s ambassador to the United Nations said that an Iranian opposition group is feeding fabricated evidence to Washington that purports to show the Tehran government tried to produce nuclear weapons. "

This should read "an Iranian opposition group being paid by the Neocons to fabricate reasons for the US citizens to cower in fear of Iran having the possibility of getting a nuke someday..."

And there are those who will blindly buy into this krap.

Posted by RowdyTexan2 at 03:25 PM : Feb 26, 2008


Did you mean the first paragraph or the second?

[notblue]

rowdytexan, calling the threat from radical Islam and Iran "krap'' is as stupid as claiming it''s all Bush''s fault. But then again, readinmg your posts, one would have to conclude you probably are that stupid.

[denn034]

If the intelligence came from a terrorist group, then, it should be dismissed not relied on. I once failed to understand the distinction between regular uranium for electricity and weapons grade (the highest quality) uranium for nukes and made postings to this site that I regret.

[singingrick]

I declare a Jihad on all Jihadies that Jihad against Bush''s global Jihad!


God is great!

[yongamerica]

You freak''n Iranian propagandists should read:
Iran is a donkeybutt and it continues to deceive and blantantly lie to non Islamic contries just as its Supreme Leader states is Iranian law.
Iran is an international threat, has been for decades and ther is no more compromise on it''s goals to become the center of a world wide Islamic nation

[singingrick]

yongamerica


Lions and tigers and bears...oh my!

[hungry1968]

Iran is so full of ***. We can thank these inbred retards for most of the IED/EFP deaths of our soldiers in Iraq. Thats ok though. Whats the old saying?....what comes around goes around. They''''ll get theirs sooner or later just like we did with the Russians.

Posted by soldierboy37 at 02:58 PM : Feb 26, 2008





You mean like "emerging superpower" Russia?

[hall9504]

who cares if they got nukes... everyone is going to end up firing there nukes at each other... so oh well...

[jwind11]

who cares if they got nukes... everyone is going to end up firing there nukes at each other... so oh well...

Posted by hall9504 at 06:04 PM : Feb 26, 2008

so good have to post again

who cares if they got nukes... everyone is going to end up firing there nukes at each other... so oh well...

Posted by hall9504 at 06:04 PM : Feb 26, 2008

what a dork

[rowdytexan2]

Did you mean the first paragraph or the second?


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Posted by AJMarine1 at 03:47 PM : Feb 26, 2008

lol, actually I meant the first...ROFL! Who wants to sit home and cower while these two buffooons throw hot air at each other.

[rowdytexan2]

rowdytexan, calling the threat from radical Islam and Iran "krap'''' is as stupid as claiming it''''s all Bush''''s fault. But then again, readinmg your posts, one would have to conclude you probably are that stupid.


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Posted by notblue at 03:51 PM : Feb 26, 2008

I sympathize your need to step up and defend Bush since you probably voted for him twice. It really is hard to back off a stupid stance like that.

Blind sheep will follow their leader right into the shearing shed and be fleeced!

[iceman_1960]

"WASHINGTON (AFP) - A huge survey of the world''s Muslims released Tuesday challenges Western notions that equate Islam with radicalism and violence.

The survey, conducted by the Gallup polling agency over six years and three continents, seeks to dispel the belief held by some in the West that Islam itself is the driving force of radicalism.

It shows that the overwhelming majority of Muslims condemned the attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001 and other subsequent terrorist attacks, the authors of the study said in Washington."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080226/wl_afp/usislamreligionethics

[ajmarine1]

Who wants to sit home and cower while these two buffooons throw hot air at each other.

Posted by RowdyTexan2 at 07:13 PM : Feb 26, 2008


If Iran does make a bomb, Israel has more to fear than we do; not to mention all of her neighbors due to fallout in the region.

[sociallyjust]

Iranian maniacal leader, Mahmoud AchMAD-I-NEEDaSPANK, has a DEATH WISH. Ordinarily, that may be accepted OUTSIDE Iran to be the normal course of events as related to IRAN, and such wishes being an INTERNAL matter. However, the problem for the entire world boils down to the following:

That Iranian death wish, is not only for himself and his nation which is CONTROLLED BY religiously twisted, PRIMITIVE AND WARLIKE Islamic clerics. It is a DEATH WISH for ALL MANKIND, for the purpose of ushering in the
12th Imam/MESSIANIC ERA, as is fantasy in the minds of THOSE FORCED INTO BEING MOSLEM !!!

Add nuclear technology in the hands of demented Islamofascist ideology, and we can expect that FULL DOOMSDAY SCENARIO.

CONCLUSION:
The world must prevent ROGUE, TERRORIST-SUPPORTING IRAN from acquiring ANY nuclear technology, as THE IRANIAN THREAT POSES THE GREATEST DANGER TO OUR PLANET IN MANKIND''S HISTORY.
Based on Iran''s stated ''ideological purpose'' and on its ultimately imposing strict, GLOBAL Islamic rule (OR HELL ON EARTH), any means to prevent the same - including military action - would be justifiable.

[sociallyjust]

Part 1
CONTINUING IRANIAN DECEPTION

Wouldn''t it be nothing short of INSANITY, if for example, we know that our neighbor is building up an arsenal of deadly, explosive weapons, and is teaching the people and children who live within that property, RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGY OF HATE AND MURDER, and that they are superior to other ''wrong'' and bad people on the other side of the fence who are unlike them, and we did NOTHING? And just one more thing. They teach their children that it THEIR RELIGIOUS DUTY TO LIE TO AND TO DECEIVE their neighbors, so that they will be able to kill the other people more easily at a later time.
Now, what if these same ''superior'' and hate-filled neighbors start TRANSFERRING AND IMPOSING that same IDEOLOGY onto other neighbors in far-away neighborhoods, and give them money and weapons for the purpose of TRANSFERRING AND IMPOSING their way of life and their RELIGION onto each and every one of their neighbors? ...and still we did NOTHING to stop these evildoers? INSANITY or what?

[sociallyjust]

Part 2
CONTINUING IRANIAN DECEPTION

The forgoing rather accurately describes the long-term actions and PLANS OF THE CURRENT, PRIMITIVE, WARLIKE, HATE-FILLED MINDS of Iran''s President and Iran''s backward religious leaders.

If necessary defensive, PREVENTATIVE action is NOT taken by the neighbors who are free - WHILE THEY ARE FREE - we should expect nothing less than the worst HELL ON EARTH. At this very moment, Iran''s scientists, technicians and others, are working full speed ahead to produce nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. Make no mistake about this! [to be continued. See Part 3]

[sociallyjust]

Part 3
IRANIAN DECEPTION

Many are simply too naive and/or too unwilling to face these very disturbing facts.

Also, at this very moment, WE ALL ARE SITTING DUCKS.

Iran together with Islamofascism, is indeed MANKIND''S GREATEST DANGER, AND MUST BE ELIMINATED BY ANY AND ALL MEANS, INCLUDING USE OF THE FREE WORLD''S MILITARY RESOURCES.

[iceman_1960]

"Iran together with Islamofascism, is indeed MANKIND"S GREATEST DANGER, AND MUST BE ELIMINATED BY ANY AND ALL MEANS, INCLUDING USE OF THE FREE WORLD"S MILITARY RESOURCES."
- Posted by sociallyjust at 11:41 PM : Feb 26, 2008
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If Iran is such a big danger, let Israel deal with Iran. We"re paying Israel massively every year to be our good ally in the region -- let them earn that money for a change.

Meanwhhile, Global Warming is the greatest danger, far beyond anything Iran could possibly do.

The Free World"s full resources must be mobilized to face that danger.

[sociallyjust]

Thanks for your perseverance, singinrick.

You saved me time in answering the naive ones, who find it difficult to accept disturbing facts re many grave world concerns.

May we remind them that the easy/simple way out is all too often the wrong and more dangerous way?

Appeasement of evildoers whets their appetites for further deception, as well as for their taking more and more from those who fail to stand up to them.