csmonitor.com: Is Iran telling the truth about nuclear program?

[unhappycamper]

Is Iran telling the truth about nuclear program?
posted May 27, 2005, updated 11:30 a.m.
By Tom Regan
csmonitor.com

In a move that could lead to a breakthrough in the investigation of Iran's nuclear program, two senior Pakistani Army officers delivered uranium enrichment components for analysis by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna "in order to establish whether traces of weapons-grade uranium found in Iran match that on the Pakistani equipment." The Guardian reports that Pakistan has resisted cooperating with the IAEA until now.

If the IAEA does find matching traces, it could confirm Iran's statements that it was not manufacturing weapons grade uranium, but had imported it " via a Pakistan-based network trading in nuclear technology." That network has since been exposed and shut down by Pakistani and US authorities.

The discovery of the weapons-grade traces almost two years ago was one of the most startling discoveries in the Iranian investigation. Inspectors no longer believe that Tehran produced the material. But if the Pakistani and Iranian traces do not match, the finding will throw open the possibility that Iran obtained nuclear equipment from another, as yet unknown, source.

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[Dogmudgeon]

1. (Wrong article)

--p!

[varun]

2. Why should Iran tell the truth?

When everyone else is hiding their nuclear programs?

Also, why shouldnt Iran develop its nuclear program? It seems like the only way to ward off the predatory US designs on its oilfields.

[Gyre]

3. Are WE telling the truth about ANYTHING?

[soundhead]

4. Is it indeed

Is Iran telling the truth about nuclear program?

Was Saddam telling the truth about WMD?
Was Bush lying to the world about WMD?

Anyone who can even harbour any doubts that *anything* Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Fill-in-name-of-other-admin-guttersnipe-here says is a self-serving lie needs to have their head examined.