VIENNA, Austria, Sept. 16, 2008
IAEA: Iran To Upgrade Missile For Nuke Use
U.N. Agency Presents Report Allegedly Showing Iran's Plans To Redesign Weapons
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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."
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Reuters uk January 18, 2008 : " Iran has some awesome colleagues. Russia and China have become guardians of the Iranian economy. They don%u2019t put religion between business and political advantages. The US is sorely lacking in intelligent Foreign Policy. Hitler%u2019s Foreign Policy has been resurrected to serve the needs of an oil agenda and turn the US into the most disrespected and despised world power ".
Moscow -- Armed forces will be used if necessary, including preventively and with the use of nuclear weapons, for protection of Russia and its allies, the Russian Armed Forces Chief of the General Staff Yuri Baluyevsky said on Saturday.
"We do not intend to attack anybody. But all our partners must realize that for protection of Russia and its allies if necessary armed forces will be used, including preventively, including with the use of nuclear weapons," Baluyevsky was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.
Baluyevsky reportedly made the statement at a scientific conference of the Academy of Military Sciences January 19, 2008.
I''m wondering if your name is Gary Busey?
Posted by beehive21 at 05:54 PM : Sep 16, 2008
That may be true of the intelligencia but not the common people who voted for Ahmadinejad because of his religious beliefs. Ahmadinejad in his UN speech made it quite clear the role he thinks he plays in the coming of the 12th Imam. When I heard the speech I thought "My God he is going to start a war." I think it went over the head of most people at the UN because they can''t relate to anything religious.
At best it is quibbling. At worst it is flat out deceit.
News organizations that do such things do not serve the interests of Americans.
But they serve somebodies interests.
I wonder whose?
Posted by CBS_Oliver at 04:56 PM : Sep 16, 2008
Well, CBS isn''t spewing bush neocon material. Apparently both Mc"Cane" and Obamination believe that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons. Both believe that all options are on the table, because Iran is a major threat. And it is not just them and the neocons. The EU, the entire Western world, and many of the Middle Eastern states (not just Israel) believes that a nuclear Iran is a threat to peace.
It''s just people like you that refuse to believe anything that doesn''t serve your agenda of being anti-government. It''s people like you that swore that N. Korea was not making weapons, right up until they detonated a nuke. It is people like you that will stand in total shock when Iran detonates its first nuke, and a short whiles later, a nuke goes off in Jerusalem, NYC, or London. Except then, it will be too late.
Thank God that some people will do something about it rather than avoiding the facts.
Posted by metsobitso at 05:55 PM : Sep 16, 2008
This time (unlike Iraq) they will have earned the war. GOD help us all.
Don''t need to other Goverments are already beating us to it. Even China recently handed over intelligence to the UN that suggested Iran was operating a nuke weapons program. And it wasn''t the U.S. that just turned over the missile reconfiguration plans this article is based on. But I suppose you lefties desperatly wan''t the
Posted by aothah at 11:57 AM : Sep 16, 2008
(In another story about Iran)
They are counting on it. This (Iran) is a country run by religion (Islam) They''''re looking for their form of armageddon and they believe that if they can provoke an attack by the rest of the world against (the faithful) that Allah will return and kill the infidels. The religious christian extremist believe the same type of prophesy only Jesus will return.
It is the intent of Islam extremist factions to make the world Islamic (or provoke Allah into killing all non-Muslims)
Thats not what the IAEA report said at all. No wonder americans are so twisted in the head. The report actually suggests Iran was not co-operating with providing answers. This was about ''photographic intelligence'' which implied Iran was trying to reshape its Shahab 3 missile heads to accommodate a nuclear bomb. We all know how accurate US ''intelligence'' has been of late, so its hardly surprising that they are refusing to play curveball. CBS should ONCE AGAIN be ashamed of its reckless news manipulation.
I still find it hard to under stand how the West rags on Iran getting nuclear weapons and says nothing about Israel possessing the same. No one in the middle east should have nuclear weapons including Israel. The truth be told I am quite sure that Israel would use nuclear weapons on us if they felt themselves in a bind.
I still find it hard to under stand how the West rags on Iran getting nuclear weapons and says nothing about Israel possessing the same. No one in the middle east should have nuclear weapons including Israel. The truth be told I am quite sure that Israel would use nuclear weapons on us if they felt themselves in a bind.
discern the facts when no country will stand behind the story and present valid facts. Oil Prices are going down...hurry Mr Bush you need another Terror Threat or War to prop up the Boys.
Get a freakin'' life. The issue is that Iran is ramping up their nuclear capabilities on Bush''s watch, not that some reporter''s sentence isn''t equisitely crafted to your specifications.
As a famous person once said, "get out the fainting couch!"
The article also contradicts itself. On the one hand it is claimed that there is this new evidence the UN is holding, and then on the other hand there is this paragraph:
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.
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If IAEA has not found any evidence contradicting Iranian claims, then what is this article supposed to be about????
After reading the article I conceed The report came from the U.S. However that does not mean it is untrue. Other countries as well have been supplying intelligence supporting the thinking that they do have somthing to hide. If they are hiding nothing then they are making the same mistake Saddam made in making the worlds intlligence agencies think they are. Also what makes you think they do not? because they say so?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Isreal will do it with or without our help.
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by iran-power
September 17, 2008 10:42 PM PDT
- before bombing IRAN you have to fix your country economy and one more thing we will f*** the israel s as*
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