UN atomic agency has "serious concerns" about Iran's nuclear activities

[Silurian]

From Telegraph

The UN atomic agency has "serious concerns" about Iran's nuclear activities, and has "credible" information Tehran may have worked on developing atomic weapons, a report said on Tuesday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ious-concerns-on-Iran-nuclear-activities.html

Iran is in the advanced stages of designing a nuclear explosive device small enough to fit in a warhead. Its indigenous design involves a so-called R265 generator, which is a spherical shell with explosives around the outside. The name could refer to the 265mm radius of the fissile hemispheres. Computer models for the warhead are configured in way that is not appropriate for civilian use but is entirely appropriate for a weapons programme, according to sources familiar with the IAEA report

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...n/8874426/IAEA-report-on-Iran-key-points.html

From Haaretz

Iran rejected as "politically motivated" a report by the UN nuclear watchdog on Tuesday in which the Islamic Republic was accused of working on developing an atomic bomb design, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

"The report of the International Atomic Energy Agency is unbalanced, unprofessional and politically motivated," Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's envoy to the IAEA, was quoted as saying.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/iran-rejects-iaea-report-as-politically-motivated-1.394437

So has the IAEA got it right and Iran has been designing nuclear weapons.

If so what is the next step for the UN.

 

[Cutlass]

We really all sorta knew this

 

[Silurian]

Well it is different coming from the UN.

US intelligence is not trusted.

 

[Quackers]

Bomb Iran.

 

[Cutlass]

US intelligence is not always wrong, even if what is releases is often politically self serving.

That said, everything said by everyone except the Iranians pointed at a weapons program. And nothing was ever really consistent with a power program.

 

[Silurian]

Quackers@

Do you really want the price of oil to double next week

 

[amadeus]

They're both probably right. I don't think Iran would waste its time building these things though if the U.S. just stayed the hell out of the Mideast.

 

[Defiant47]

Good thing Israel has well-developed plans for military strikes on Iranian nuclear development sites. Perhaps a preemptive attack is in order before it's too late. (After triple-checking the quality of the intel, of course)

 

[Quackers]

They're both probably right. I don't think Iran would waste its time building these things though if the U.S. just stayed the hell out of the Mideast.

Thanks for the comment Formaldehyde.

 

[Glassfan]

Well it is different coming from the UN.

US intelligence is not trusted.

The IAEA is not part of the UN (thank God) but rather an independent agency. No one takes the UN seriously. When Mohamed ElBaradei was director of the IAEA, the organization could not find any evidence of Iranian nuclear weapons research. Now that he's gone, the truth is coming out.

They're both probably right. I don't think Iran would waste its time building these things though if the U.S. just stayed the hell out of the Mideast.

The Iranian Mullahs have a hate of all things and all peoples. They don't just hate America and Israel, but the Arabs and the Russians (the "lesser Satan") and lots of others. You, amadeus, are an educated and reasonable young man. The Mullahs are reactionary old men.

Thanks for the comment Formaldehyde.

Formaldehyde?

 

[Ajidica]

I'm in favor of this. Given how many 'nuclear holocaust between America and the USSR allegories' we got in the Cold War, I'm looking forward to what Hollywood could do with these. We've been fighting enough terrorists and seeing pasty vampires make out. It is time for some old-fasioned nuclear apocalypse allegory.

 

[Verarde]

I'm in favor of this. Given how many 'nuclear holocaust between America and the USSR allegories' we got in the Cold War, I'm looking forward to what Hollywood could do with these. We've been fighting enough terrorists and seeing pasty vampires make out. It is time for some old-fasioned nuclear apocalypse allegory.

This just wins the thread.

 

[amadeus]

Thanks for the comment Formaldehyde.

Except I'm not a communist.

 

[Tee Kay]

In UN-speak, "serious concerns" is everything between "urine in a swimming pool" to "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE"

 

[Ooovis]

Would this happen to be the same bunch that claimed WMDs in Iraq?

Won't get your Cold War part 2 movies unless America/The west actully uses diplomacy instead of useing the shoot first model.

To me this just sounds like another excuse to start more wars seeing as Kim of Korea has nukes and there is not much said about startin things with him.

 

[Skwink]

Iran, you're taunting the the Bear using a stick.

 

[DinoDoc]

Would this happen to be the same bunch that claimed WMDs in Iraq?

No, it is not.

 

[Tee Kay]

Iran, you're taunting the the Bear using a stick.

Yeah, but the bear's in a cage.

 

[Jehoshua]

Now we wait and see what the State of Israel will do.

 

[Skwink]

Yeah, but the bear's in a cage.

How much faith are you putting in this cage?