Pakistan Found to Aid Iran Nuclear Efforts

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Pakistan Found to Aid Iran Nuclear Efforts
By DAVID E. SANGER

Published: September 2, 2004


new assessment of Iran's nuclear program by the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency says that, as early as 1995, Pakistan was providing Tehran with the designs for sophisticated centrifuges capable of making bomb-grade nuclear fuel. It also finds evidence that, as of the mid-August, Iran had assembled and tested the major components for 70 of the machines, which it showed to inspectors from the agency.

But the report, issued to members of the agency on Wednesday as a confidential document, provided no new evidence of the kind of covert programs that the agency has discovered in the last year, and suggested that the Iranian government was slowly becoming more helpful to inspectors. That assessment, American officials said, is likely to discourage moves by the Bush administration to take Iran to the United Nations Security Council for penalties unless it dismantles its program, which the Iranians say is entirely peaceful and which the United States says is designed to produce nuclear weapons.

Last month, Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, said she expected that in September the agency would make what she called "a very strong statement'' requiring Iran to choose between isolation or the abandonment of its nuclear weapons efforts. But she stopped short of saying whether the United States could muster its allies to impose penalties on Iran in the United Nations Security Council.

On Wednesday, a senior American official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that going to the Security Council was still a "live option," because the report did nothing to mitigate American suspicions that Iran's ultimate goal was to build nuclear weapons.



http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/02/international/middleeast/02iran.html

[Nambe]

1. This story was common before dimson was elected.

How can he attack Iran if the don't develope imaginary weapons?

[Radius]

2. Kaaahhnnn

was selling stuff all over the globe. I think he would have sold my grandmother a centrifuge..

couldn't resist..

[Pallas180]

3. try reading American Judas in Editorials - it was Cheney who

was selling nuclear components all over the world.

Surprise?

nah.. not to us...not to anybody who knows he's been fined over 10 million dollars for selling to Libya and Iran.

[Pallas180]

4. Radius - did you read any of that stuff Eloriel and I linked for you?

I'm kinda wondering how come you're hanging around a Librul site?

[Just Me]

5. Our "best friends"? Tell me it isn't so!!!!

Freakin' elitist bullshit can drive any sane person up the wall.

They are all sociopaths needing treatment,...