{"id":6036,"date":"2004-06-02T21:54:56","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T04:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/02\/shocked-2.html"},"modified":"2004-06-02T21:54:56","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T04:54:56","slug":"shocked_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/02\/shocked_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Shocked!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Atomic Energy Agency is shocked, shocked<\/i>, to find suspicious nuclear program work<\/a> in Iran.<\/p>\n

Nearly two months after pledging to suspend its nuclear program, Iran is continuing to make parts and materials that could be used in the manufacture of nuclear arms, according to a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
\nThe report, distributed yesterday to the agency’s member nations, deepens the challenge of forcing Iran to give up a program that President Bush has charged is intended to turn the country into a nuclear power.
\nThe Iranians insist that they are seeking to enrich uranium simply to produce commercial nuclear power, but the atomic energy agency’s report cites continuing evidence that Iran misled inspectors with many of its early claims, especially on questions about where it obtained critical components. Iranian officials have now told the agency that some of those parts were purchased abroad, after initially insisting that Iran had made them itself.<\/p>\n

The details are certainly interesting.<\/p>\n

The atomic energy agency’s report, obtained from diplomatic officials, said three workshops in Iran were making centrifuge parts despite Tehran’s claim to have suspended uranium enrichment and related activities on April 9. In addition, it says, Iran is preparing to make uranium hexafluoride, the material that is fed into centrifuges to produce enriched uranium.
\nAs the centrifuges spin, they enrich uranium to a purity that is useful for nuclear reactors and, in higher concentrations, for nuclear weapons. The work on centrifuge fuel, said the report, “is at variance with the agency’s previous understanding as to the scope of Iran’s decision regarding suspension.”
\nThe report also said the Iranians had secretly sought to obtain magnets to make at least 4,000 P-2 centrifuges, a second-generation Pakistani model. It is the most advanced centrifuge sold by Dr. Khan’s network.
\nFinally, the report said Iran’s explanation for how its earlier P-1 centrifuges became contaminated with highly enriched uranium appeared to be false. The Iranians said the contamination had been on the equipment when it arrived from abroad. Investigators have said the centrifuges came from Pakistan.
\nThe report says that explanation now appears less believable. Western diplomats interviewed yesterday said the probable source of the contamination would turn out to be either the nuclear black market or Iran’s own enriching of uranium into highly concentrated forms suitable for making atomic bombs.<\/p>\n

\nOf course, there’s no “unambigious evidence” (just plenty of suspicious obfuscation) that the program is actually military in nature.<\/p>\n

“The jury is out on whether the program has been dedicated exclusively for peaceful purposes or if it has some military dimension,” Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said at a NATO meeting yesterday. “We haven’t seen concrete proof of a military program, so it’s premature to make a judgment on that.”<\/p>\n

Stay tuned …<\/p>\n

(via Rantingprofs<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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