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."

[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.

[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]

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.

[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 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]

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.

[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.

[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

[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!

[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.

[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

[hall9504]

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

[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?

[singingrick]

yongamerica


Lions and tigers and bears...oh my!

[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]

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


God is great!

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.