AP EXCLUSIVE: NEW INTELLIGENCE ON IRAN NUKE WORK

[xchrom]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_NUCLEAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-11-08-12-00

VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. atomic agency has received new and significant intelligence over the past month that Iran has moved further toward the ability to build a nuclear weapon, diplomats tell The Associated Press.

They say the intelligence shows that Iran has advanced its work on calculating the destructive power of an atomic warhead through a series of computer models that it ran sometime within the past three years.

The diplomats say the information comes from Israel, the United States and at least two other Western countries. The time-frame is significant because if the International Atomic Energy Agency decides that the intelligence is credible, it would strengthen its concerns that Iran has continued weapons work into the recent past - and may be continuing to do so.

Because computer modeling work is normally accompanied by physical tests of the components that go into a nuclear weapons, it would also buttress IAEA fears outlined in detail in November that Tehran is advancing its weapons research on multiple fronts.

[Junkdrawer]

1. Failing a new terror attack, the US wants to wait for the sanctions to take hold....

Good thing all that talk of 9/11 being a synthetic attack used to create a War on Terror is full of shit.

Right?

[leveymg]

2. The irony is, if they actually had the bomb, nobody would be talking about attacking them.

Can anyone explain to me why it's okay for Israel and Pakistan to have nuclear weapons, but Iran is singularly evil and irrational?

[zellie]

3. Golly.....thats just wonderful.

seeing the sickest country on the face of the earth get nukes is just great.


end of sarcasm

[xchrom]

4. the timing of this news release -- september 11. nt

[MadHound]

6. "diplomats say the information comes from Israel, the United States,

and at least two other Western countries."

Gee, no bias there.

Sound like the same sort of saber rattling against Iran that has been going on for years and decades.