IAEA: Iran To Upgrade Missile For Nuke Use

(CBS/ AP)  The U.N. nuclear agency has presented intelligence allegedly showing plans to redesign an Iranian missile to accommodate a nuclear payload.

The International Atomic Energy Agency shared the intelligence with 35 nations on Tuesday, but the Iranian representative to the organization says the information was fabricated.

Gregory L. Schulte, the chief U.S. representative to the IAEA, said the evidence shows Iran has a weapons program.

The two spoke separately to reporters after the presentation by the IAEA, one day after the U.N. nuclear watchdog issued a report saying that Iran has stonewalled its attempts to probe allegations that it drew up plans and conducted experiments for a nuclear arms program.

Meanwhile, France said Tuesday it would push for more sanctions against Iran.

"We have no other choice than to work in the days and weeks to come toward a new Security Council sanctions resolution," French Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier said.

He called the IAEA findings "very worrisome."

White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe also spoke Monday of "the possibility of new sanctions" if Iran continues to defy the U.N.

However, Russia and China, who like the U.S. and France have veto power over U.N. Security Council resolutions, would likely resist a fourth round of sanctions against Iran. Britain, the fifth veto-wielding member of the Security Council, is aligned with the U.S. and France.

The Security Council has already imposed three sets of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear defiance.

The IAEA's report said Iran has now amassed a third of the amount of enriched uranium it could reprocess into the material for the fissile core of a nuclear weapon should it choose to do so. But U.N officials familiar with the report emphasized that Iran - whose known nuclear programs are under IAEA supervision - has shown no indication it wanted to go that route.

The U.S. and its allies allege that Iran wants to develop its uranium enrichment program to make nuclear weapons. But oil-rich Iran insists it only wants to make nuclear energy, and IAEA oversight and inspections of its known enrichment program has not found any evidence that contradicts that.

China said Tuesday that imposing further sanctions on Iran will not resolve the nuclear impasse.

"I don't think sanctions are the way out," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said.

But Jiang also said China hoped Iran would keep cooperating with the IAEA.

"The solution of the Iranian nuclear issue is negotiation and dialogue," she told a regular news briefing. "We hope the relevant parties will step up diplomatic efforts and settle the issue peacefully through dialogue and negotiations."

[iran-power]

before bombing IRAN you have to fix your country economy and one more thing we will f*** the israel s as*

[impeach__w]

Yep, now there is only one solution for Iran- Bombing.
Isreal will do it with or without our help.

[tapsettle]

Posted by lochlan

Most of america now recognises those points as facts. The big ''WHY'' to me is, why hasn''t america done anything about it? That is also the big SHAME.

[lochlan-2009]

THIS POST I MADE YESTERDAY WAS DELETED FROM THE LIST!!!!!

WHY?

"but the Iranian representative to the organization says the information was fabricated."

"In late 2001, Italian Intelligence received documents that show Saddam Hussein''s government was attempting to purchase yellow cake uranium from the country of Niger. These documents were handed over to the CIA and to Great Britain. By early 2002 both CIA and the State Department discovered the documents were forgeries.

Former Iraq Ambassador Joe Wilson was sent by senior officials in the US Government to look into the documents claims. Joe Wilson found no evidence that Saddam had attempted to purchase yellow cake uranium. After informing the Bush Administration of the fact that the documents were forgeries and Joe Wilson found no evidence of any sale of yellow cake uranium, the George Bush said in his state of the union address "the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa".

Joe Wilson wrote an op-ed in the NY Times entitled "What I didn''t find in Niger" refuting the Presidents statements. Shortly there after his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, had her covert identity of a CIA officer blown in a column by Robert Novak."-http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Did_George_Bush_lie_about_the_WMDs_in_Iraq

[tapsettle]

AMERICA BY THEIR OWN CHOICE WILL DESTROY THEIR LAND.
THEY SHOULD LET INTERNATIONAL INSPECTORS IN AND NEGOTIATE PEACE WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD.THEY HAVE LITTLE TIME LEFT BEFORE THEY ARE GLASSED OVER BY THEIR CHOICE AND STUPID LEADERS.

[rona0899]

IRAN BY THEIR OWN CHOICE WILL DESTROY THEIR LAND.
THEY SHOULD LET INTERNQATIONAL INSPECTORS IN AND NEGOTIATE PEACE WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD.tHEY HAVE LITTLE TIME LEFT BEFORE THEY ARE GLASSED OVER BY THEIR CHOICE AND STUPID LEADERS.

[nincomp]

Syria and Iran are working together on a nuclear weapon and a missile delivery system. TO see the whole picture inspectors will have to look at both countries.
Posted by yongamerica at 03:04 AM : Sep 17, 2008
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Big deal, any project of this scale would need internal collaboration. What makes you think that Israel developed its weapons alone.

[mwg0735-2009]

I am amused by comments that say Iran should get to have the bomb. You don''t have Christians blowing themselves up do you? Only the Muslums so would you ever really trust them??? If they didn''t have oil they would be sand people. Once they sell it all they will live in the dirt and caves again.

[powerman2001]

US propaganda system...yep! It''s true. There is a huge propaganda system in the States. All of the smart and intelligent people left Iran for America after the revolution. The leaders there now are very uneducated and religious fundementalist. They are the last folks that need anything nuclear. I hope they get blasted back into the stone age. Maybe then the next generation will be ready to join a modern world and conduct themselves in a civilized manor. I hope that region of the world will one day respect human rights.

[babooph]

All thru childhood,I was assured that it was no problem that both sides had the bomb-that assured it would never be used-now I am told that other nations that dissagree must have only one of them with the bomb-very odd this US propaganda system .