Oh how I love to be proven right. I wish it were on something insignificant like when it was going to rain and such, but now I've been proven to be right about Iran's nuclear program.
Iran's alleged research into nuclear warheads remains a matter of serious concern and Tehran should provide more information on its missile-related activities, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also said, in its latest report on Iran, that Tehran was holding back information on high-explosives testing relating to its nuclear program.
This is according to the UN's nuclear group, the IAEA, NOT according to the US or any other intelligence agencies. So, those of you out there who keep saying that it's all being "made up about Iran", (Keith Olbermann, I'm looking at you), it simply IS NOT TRUE. Iran IS hiding something.
Case in point:
The IAEA said it asked Iran in April to provide access to locations related to the manufacture of uranium centrifuges, research and development of uranium enrichment, and uranium mining and milling as a transparency measure.
"To date, Iran has not agreed to the agency's request," the report said.
Iran could EASILY answer the concerns of the international community, but it choses not to because it will bring up even MORE questions about their activities.
The IAEA has been pressing Tehran for answers to Western intelligence allegations that Iran has covertly studied how to design atomic bombs. Iran has dismissed the intelligence as baseless, forged or irrelevant.
Iran's research into "high explosives testing and the missile re-entry vehicle project remained a matter of serious concern", said the report, which will be passed on to the United Nations Security Council.
"Substantive explanations are required from Iran to support its statements on the alleged studies and on other information with a possible military dimension," the agency said, though it added that it had not detected any actual use of nuclear material in connection with the alleged studies.
"We have not got substantive answers and we could have gotten those earlier," a senior U.N. official said.
The next step is up to Tehran and to the IAEA board of governors, which meets next week in Vienna, he said. "They (Iran) know what we need, everything is listed here that we need, the questions are clear...we need answers."
The IAEA is finally starting to press Iran about it's nuclear intentions, contrary to it's toothless reputation. But sooner or later, Iran is going to have to cave. Even with China and Russia backing it for obviously self centered reasons, even Stevie Wonder can see that Iran is after nuclear weapons.
But of course, here comes the bullshit spin from Iran:
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the agency, said the IAEA report showed that Tehran's nuclear program was peaceful, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported.
The report "shows Iran's entire nuclear activities are peaceful," Fars quoted him as saying. "Once more it has been explicitly underlined that there has been absolutely no evidence regarding the diversion of Iran's nuclear activities or materials toward military purposes," he said.
Anyone believe this line of bullshit except idiots like Keith Olbermann?
Anyone care to explain to me how this report of Iran hiding and dodging questions shows that they have a purely peaceful nuclear program?
It's all a line of shit from Iran because they have gotten emboldened our non response to their attacks on our soldiers in Iraq. They have seen that they can get away with attacking our guys and we'll do nothing about it. Many people are looking at Iran and thinking it's all a ruse from the Bush administration, but no one other then a select few, is actually LOOKING at the evidence.
If this is ever an "I told you so" moment, this is it. The NIE report has been criticized for being wrong in the past and ignored when it talked about Iran's nuclear program. But once it said that they stopped in 2003, everyone touted it as gospel. Why can't the NIE be wrong in this instance? Because people's minds are already made up and they'll pick and choose the evidence that they want to see.
Gregory Schulte, the U.S. envoy to the IAEA, said Iran was blocking the IAEA's efforts to investigate indications that it had engaged in studies, engineering work, and procurement relevant to building nuclear weapons.
"The report shows in great detail how much Iran needs to explain, and how little it has," he said.
"Altogether this report is a clear vote that Iran could have done more, but that it didn't," said a European diplomat.
The report said Iran had not given the IAEA all the necessary information or access to documents and individuals.
"The agency is of the view that Iran may have additional information, in particular on high explosives testing and missile-related activities, which could shed more light on the nature of these alleged studies and which Iran should share with the agency," the report said.
Unless Iran has a GREAT explanation about all of these unanswered questions, including questions about nuclear contamination at Tehran University and documents found that only pertain to nuclear weapons, Iran is going to have a nasty surprise waiting for them. China and Russia can't ignore the evidence for long.
Travis
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