Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.
The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion. Foreign intelligence agencies date them to early 2007, four years after Iran was thought to have suspended its weapons programme.
An Asian intelligence source last week confirmed to The Times that his country also believed that weapons work was being carried out as recently as 2007 — specifically, work on a neutron initiator.
The technical document describes the use of a neutron source, uranium deuteride, which independent experts confirm has no possible civilian or military use other than in a nuclear weapon. Uranium deuteride is the material used in Pakistan’s bomb, from where Iran obtained its blueprint.
“Although Iran might claim that this work is for civil purposes, there is no civil application,” said David Albright, a physicist and president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, which has analysed hundreds of pages of documents related to the Iranian programme. “This is a very strong indicator of weapons work.”
I can’t help but laugh at all those posters blaming the current President.
Under Clinton, strides were being made to bring Iran out of their isolationist shell and into the world of man. After 9/11, Iran even offered to help track down the terrorists in Afghanistan, only their offer was rudely dismissed. The next year, they are lumped into an “Axis of Evil”, thereby totally removing any idea of a settling with Iran.
Today, six years later, we are seeing what happened during the Bush Administration. The nuclear peaceful, cooperative intentions of Iran and North Korea were turned around 180 degrees and now both either have nuclear weapons or will soon. Both either have or are working on medium range delivery systems. Way to go right wing nuts !!!
For some reason though, it is now Obama’s fault.
Wow, the Keyboard Commandos and the Chairborne Rangers are out in force today, talkin’ tough as they usually do. So you guys are all going to volunteer for military duty to take out Iran, right?
It’s a good thing today’s Republicans weren’t in power when the Soviets got their atomic bomb (1949) or the Chinese got theirs (1964). Because we’d be scrounging for grubs to eat after the nuclear winter caused by the wingnuts’ global nuclear war.
In case you don’t recall, the Soviets and the Chinese were our most deadly enemies during the Cold War. They got nukes and the world didn’t end. So all you wingnuts: wipe the sh*t off your butt, put on a fresh pair of Depends, pop another Xanax, wipe away your tears, and chill.
The only way we’re going to stop countries from getting nuclear weapons is diplomatic. Invading another country for having nukes is not only against international law (and would make us the biggest rogue state in the world) but impossible in a practical sense. Our military was bled to the breaking point in Iraq, a country one-third the size of Iran. And bombing their nuke plants will only make them more determined to build a nuke.
There’s nothing more pathetic than an arrogant blowhard threatening to throw his weight around when everyone knows he’s got nothing to back it up. We got nothing, so let’s not be making threats we can’t make good on.
#21 Well said Mr. Fusion… the wingnuts forgot that Iran offered to help us find the terrorists. If the Cheney administration had had any diplomats in it, we’d be on good terms with Iran now.
Way to go, wingnuts.
Face it, if any of us were citizens of Iran, we’d have been screaming for years now for our government to build nukes to protect us from the country that had invaded the nations on either side of us. Duh.
Didn’t this all start with the SHAH of iran?
Hmmm… this posting seems to be missing the typical left-wing, liberal commentary from Uncle Dave. You can bet he would have been up in arms if Bush was President. But with the Messiah leading us, we can sit back and relax.
Quick history of the USA’s involvement with Iran.
Operation Ajax — USA and Britain plot to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953 because he nationalized Iran oil reserves. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was put into place with support from America.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became a critic of the Shah and publicly denounced the government. Khomeini was arrested and sent to prison for 18 mounts. When finally released, Khomeini critized the USA.
Khomeneini was then exiled in 1964 to Turkey then finally France.
In 1978, the Iranian Revolution began with demostrations and strikes. The Shah fled the country, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile to Tehran.
Iranians approved a national referendum that made Iran an islamic republic in 1979.
As Iran’s relationship with USA deteriated, Iranian students seized the US embassy.
The embassy personal were accused of working for the CIA and plotting to overthrow the revolutionary government like the USA did in 1953.
There have been reports (true?) that said the USA help Suddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988)
Bush Jr. labels Iran as Evil.
As one of the oldest civilizations in the world, perhaps the Persians feel they are entitled to have the bomb. A 100% certain way for them to end their civilization would be to use one, against anyone. And they know that.
Not to worry, Obama will just bend over and let Ahmadinejad put it in his ass all the while believing that Iran is simply looking for peaceful power.
lets ask a few questions about this.
1. what are the Odds you could walk a Nuke through many airports? Not very easily. Its not small, and a LEAD LINED container would DRAW LOTS of attention.
2. if you cant take it Manually/physically, then HOW to get it where you want it?
3. FLY it there with a Rocket or missile. rockets have very little control, and a guidance system for a Missile takes ALLOT of knowledge.
TRY TESTING an ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile (ask N. Korea). TESTING missiles and rockets is going to PISS ALLOT of people off REAL FAST. They arent SMALL, and make GREAT targets.
So, the main question comes to..
WHO are they going to BOMB?? Anyplace they can TRUCK it to.
UNLESS the UN, wishes to install a International system for Air travel and Border crossings. In an area where walking accross a border is COMMON.
#30, ECA
Cargo container ships travel all over the seas every day. It doesn’t even need to get inside the city. Just detonate the bomb while the ship is still in the harbor.
Yawn… this routine again.
And BTW, the best thing for the world would be for Iran to nuke the criminal state of Israel out of existence… unfortunately, that would never happen though.
In conclusion, the Republicans are now belly aching over Iran.
Well, duh. Dumbya took out their only counterforce – Iraq. Most all the strategists saw this coming.
However, Dumbya had to avenge Saddam calling his Daddy a pussy. We now have a $1 trillion war debt, nearly a million dead people and a stronger Iran.
On the upside, Daddy Bush is para sailing and Saddam is dead.
Americans are such ignorant sheep…
A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties
by Oded Yinon (with a foreword by, and translated by Israel Shahak)
Foreword
The following essay represents, in my opinion, the accurate and detailed plan of the present Zionist regime (of Sharon and Eitan) for the Middle East which is based on the division of the whole area into small states, and the dissolution of all the existing Arab states. I will comment on the military aspect of this plan in a concluding note. Here I want to draw the attention of the readers to several important points:
1. The idea that all the Arab states should be broken down, by Israel, into small units, occurs again and again in Israeli strategic thinking. For example, Ze’ev Schiff, the military correspondent of Ha’aretz (and probably the most knowledgeable in Israel, on this topic) writes about the “best” that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq: “The dissolution of Iraq into a Shi’ite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part” (Ha’aretz 6/2/1982). Actually, this aspect of the plan is very old.
2. The strong connection with Neo-Conservative thought in the USA is very prominent, especially in the author’s notes. But, while lip service is paid to the idea of the “defense of the West” from Soviet power, the real aim of the author, and of the present Israeli establishment is clear: To make an Imperial Israel into a world power. In other words, the aim of Sharon is to deceive the Americans after he has deceived all the rest.
3. It is obvious that much of the relevant data, both in the notes and in the text, is garbled or omitted, such as the financial help of the U.S. to Israel. Much of it is pure fantasy. But, the plan is not to be regarded as not influential, or as not capable of realization for a short time. The plan follows faithfully the geopolitical ideas current in Germany of 1890-1933, which were swallowed whole by Hitler and the Nazi movement, and determined their aims for East Europe. Those aims, especially the division of the existing states, were carried out in 1939-1941, and only an alliance on the global scale prevented their consolidation for a period of time.
The notes by the author follow the text. To avoid confusion, I did not add any notes of my own, but have put the substance of them into this foreward and the conclusion at the end. I have, however, emphasized some portions of the text.
Israel Shahak
June 13, 1982
Written in 1985…
The Life of an American Jew in Racist Marxist Israel
The Marxist Zionists who rule Israel and the Marxist Zionists in America have been trying to trick the U.S. into a Mideast war, on the side of Israel, of course. They almost succeeded when U.S. Marines were sent to Lebanon in 1982. The blood of the 250 American Marines who died in Lebanon is dripping from the hands of the Israeli and American Zionists.
If more Americans are not made aware of the truth about Zionist/Marxist Israel, you can be sure that, sooner or later, these atheists who claim to be God’s Chosen People will trick the U.S. into a Mideast war against the Arabs who in the past have always been America’s best friends.
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Israel could trigger a large scale Mideast war, a large war which Israel could not win alone. Then the New York leg of the New York/Moscow/Tel Aviv Triangle would use its influence on the U.S. Government to send U.S. military forces to aid Israel.
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At some point during the war, when the U.S. military is deeply involved and the U.S. citizens demoralized, the Zionist oriented Jewish International Bankers will make their move. Evidence leads to the conclusion that it is these bankers who own the Class A Stock of the U.S. Federal Reserve, America’s central bank. In this position of power, these Zionist bankers, can, and likely will, trigger an economic collapse in America — like they did in 1929 when they caused the stock market crash and started the severe depression of the 1930′s.
Attack NOW, delaying will produce millions of deaths.
What more proof is needed.
This is the evil of pacifism that resulted in WW II.
WW I was the activity of the same people that have brought us the slow world-wide collapse. This is not a recession/worst depression but a full collapse.
Globalisation has died faster than communism did, because you have separated production from consumption, a far simpler concept than what caused directed economies to shrink.
This is BS..The real threat are the Israelis.
They are the ones pushing to preemptively light the nuclear powder keg in the middle east. They are looking eliminate their centuries old Arab enemies, but also Neutralize the US war machine by dragging us into it.
This whole thing was supposed to go down in the 70-80′s but some unforeseen power grabs stopped it, until now..
Everything you are told in the MSM is a scripted illusion.
wake up.
-s
They will have the bomb, accept it and move on. The Israeli Air Force doesn’t have the assets, short of a preemptive nuclear assault. They can’t do that. The can make sure if an Iranian weapon hit’s Israeli soil, there will be no more Iran. The Iranians know this.
#38 Interesting point, RTaylor. There’s no more Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) between the U.S. and the (extinct) Soviet Union, but maybe it works on a smaller scale…
Dang, the wingnuts have calmed down. Amazing.