"US, allies say Tehran must ‘come clean’" by David E. Sanger and William J. Broad, New York Times | September 26, 2009
PITTSBURGH - Iran, apparently learning that the site had been discovered by Western intelligence, delivered a vague, terse letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday disclosing that it was building a second plant, one that it had never mentioned during years of inspections.
That is SUCH a LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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They DIDN'T LEARN AFTER IRAQ, huh?
God damn the Jew York Times!!!!!!!
The Iranians were aggressively arguing that the plant was a “semi-industrial fuel enrichment facility’’ and that they had voluntarily made its existence public....
All right, LET'S GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT RIGHT AWAY!!!
"HOW IS IT A SECRET WHEN IRAN FORMALLY NOTIFIED THE IAEA OF THE FACILITY'S CONSTRUCTION?
Shameless. The propaganda is utterly shameless.
Here is what is going on and why the US and Israel are in such a panic.
Iran is a signer of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Under that treaty, Iran has a legal right to build nuclear power stations and to produce the fuel for them. Under Article IV, the United States is supposed to help them do it.
Under IAEA rules, any nation building a new nuclear facility must notify the IAEA 6 months before any new facility becomes operational. Iran's new facility is still 18 months away from completion, but Iran notified the IAEA last Monday IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE NNPT RULES!
This revelation is embarrassing for the US and Israel for two reasons.
1. Contrary to face-save propaganda, the US and Israel did not know about this facility. Clearly it would have advanced the US and Israeli agenda to create war against Iran by revealing the facility before Iran could formally notify the IAEA. That would have put Iran totally on the defensive about the facility. That the Us and Israel did not do so tells me they were caught totally off guard (which also casts doubt on the so-called intelligence sources that claim Iran is building a weapon).
2. Iran announced the new facility to prove it is playing by the IAEA rules. Iran did so probably to underscore the fact that Israel just told the IAEA and the United Nations to go fuck themselves following a request by the IAEA and the United Nations for Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and submit to IAEA inspections.
Then there is the War Crimes issue. The United Nations just concluded that Israel committed 37 war crimes and possible crimes against humanity. Israel is trying to scream "Anti-Semitic" even though the report was written by a Jewish judge. The US has already pledged to use their Security Council Veto to prevent the report from being referred to the International Criminal Court at the Hague.
So once again, Iran is playing by the rules, and Israel and the US are not.
To save their own face, the US and Israel appear ready to launch a new war in Iran, simply because they cannot think of anything better to do.
War with Iran will mean war with Russia.
The US lacks the industrial capacity to sustain a major regional war.
The US Government (the finest government money can buy) is going to start a major war they cannot win, just to distract you from Israel's crimes." -- Wake the Flock Up
Now, I REALLY DON'T CARE for the REST of this GARBAGE, 'kay?!!!!!
Have at it, readers!
President Obama and his allies raced yesterday to use their revelation of a secret Iranian nuclear enrichment plant as long-sought leverage against Tehran, demanding that the country allow highly intrusive international inspections and propelling the confrontation with Tehran to a new and volatile pitch.
Yeah, ISRAEL'S THREE LITTLE SERVANTS!
President Obama was joined by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (center) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. (Jim Young/Reuters)
In a day of drama at an economic summit meeting, Americans, British, and French declassified some of their most closely held intelligence and scrambled to describe a multiyear Iranian effort, tracked by spies on the ground and satellites above, to build a secret uranium enrichment plant deep inside a mountain. The new facility, which Iran strongly denied was intended to be kept secret or used for making weapons, was months away from completion and its existence did nothing to shorten intelligence estimates of how long it would take Iran to produce a bomb. US intelligence officials say it will take at least a year, perhaps five, for Iran to develop the ability to complete a nuclear weapon.
But the revelation so cemented a sense of what Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain called “the serial deception of many years’’ that it led to a rare Russian rebuke of Iran, and a milder warning from China, two countries crucial to Obama’s efforts to back up diplomacy with far tougher sanctions. Obama’s aides and a raft of intelligence officials argued that the small, hidden plant was unsuitable for producing reactor fuel that might be used in a peaceful nuclear program. Moreover, its location, deep inside an Iranian Revolutionary Guard base about 20 miles from the ancient religious center of Qom, strongly suggested it was designed for covert use in weapons, they said.
Late yesterday afternoon, preparing to return to Washington, Obama issued a stark warning about the nuclear negotiations with Iran that are to begin next week, the first direct talks between the two countries in 30 years. “Iran is on notice that when we meet with them on Oct. 1 they are going to have to come clean and they will have to make a choice,’’ he said. The alternative to giving up their program, he warned, was to “continue down a path that is going to lead to confrontation.’’
It seemed unlikely that by “confrontation’’ Obama meant military action. While the president said that option was still on the table, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates said on CNN yesterday that “the reality is that there is no military option that does anything more than buy time. The estimates are three years or so.’’
Obama said he had withheld making the intelligence public for months because it “is very important in these kind of high-stakes situations to make sure the intelligence is right’’ - a clear allusion to former President George W. Bush’s release of intelligence on Iraq seven years ago this month that proved baseless. Obama’s hand was forced, however, after Iran, apparently learning that the site had been discovered by Western intelligence, delivered a vague, terse letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday disclosing that it was building a second plant, one that it had never mentioned during years of inspections.
The Iranians were aggressively arguing that the plant was a “semi-industrial fuel enrichment facility’’ and that they had voluntarily made its existence public. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on his annual visit to he United Nations, insisted that the effort was entirely legal, even if Iran had failed to declare its existence to international inspectors until days ago.
“We have no fears,’’ he said. “What we did was completely legal. The agency will come and take a look and produce a report and it is nothing new.’’ He added: “What business is it of yours to tell us what to do or not?’’ But to the West, there was a sense that Iran had stumbled. “They have cheated three times,’’ one senior administration official said of the Iranians. “And they have now been caught three times.’’
The official was referring to information unearthed by an Iranian dissident group that led to the discovery of the underground plant at Natanz in 2002, and evidence developed two years ago - after Iran’s computer networks were infiltrated by US intelligence agencies - that the country had sought to design a nuclear warhead. US officials believe that effort was halted in late 2003.
Obama said the secret facility “represents a direct challenge to the basic foundation of the nonproliferation regime.’’ President Nicolas Sarkozy of France was more blunt, giving Iran two months to meet international demands, and Brown said, “The international community has no choice today but to draw a line in the sand.’’
By all indications, that line will be drawn Thursday, when the members of the UN Security Council and Germany meet with Iranian officials, the long-awaited “engagement’’ that Obama promised in his campaign. But US officials said they would seize the moment to impose “crippling sanctions’’ if Iran blocked inspectors or refused to halt its nuclear program.
For years, US intelligence agencies have been searching Iran for evidence of the kind of facility that Iran was accused yesterday of building: an enrichment unit big enough to make enough material for one bomb a year, but small enough to hide. At its much larger enrichment facility at Natanz, the country already has produced enough low-enriched fuel to build one or two weapons, though it would need to be further enriched to weapons-grade material.
But diverting any of the fuel produced at Natanz for weapons would be difficult: International inspectors would almost certainly detect a diversion, and throwing those inspectors out of the country - as North Korea did in 2003 - would send off an alarm that Iran was headed to what experts call “nuclear breakout.’’ Senior administration officials said their break came this spring. They said equipment was seen being placed into the underground facility, which they said was evidence that Iran was planning to build a secret facility filled with 3,000 centrifuges - old, slow but reliable centrifuges.
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MORE WAR PROPAGANDA passing itself off as "news."
"US to demand Iran deadline on inspections; Response stiffens on nuclear sites" by David E. Sanger and William J. Broad, New York Times | September 27, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration plans to tell Tehran this week that the nation has three months to open its numerous nuclear sites to inspection, turn over notebooks and computers, and answer detailed questions about its suspected efforts to build a nuclear weapon, according to US officials.
The demands, following the revelation Friday of a secret nuclear enrichment facility at a military base near the holy city of Qum, set the stage for the next chapter of a diplomatic drama that has shifted the West’s posture and heightened tensions with Iran, even drawing rebukes from such allies as Russia....
Interviews over the past three days with administration and intelligence officials and international nuclear experts suggest near-unanimity that disclosure of the covert facility at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards base could be a turning point. It is providing unprecedented leverage, they said, to demands for access to other sites that have long been off-limits, and for answers to hundreds of outstanding questions. The officials say that if Iran resisted, the United States would seek tough new sanctions, at a time when the government in Tehran has been weakened by internal strife. The most urgent issue, current and former officials agree, is gaining immediate access, perhaps as soon as in the next few days, to the hidden tunnel complex that Iran now acknowledges is a uranium enrichment plant under construction.
When you a**holes going to CHECK OUT ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PLANT at DIMONA? They ACTUALLY GOT WEAPONS and ARE a REAL THREAT!
“This reopens the whole question of the military’s involvement in the Iranian nuclear program,’’ said David A. Kay, a nuclear specialist who led the fruitless American search for unconventional weapons in Iraq. The clandestine plant, he added, also raises questions of whether Iran was preparing to sprint for an atom bomb.... inside a heavily guarded base. The facility’s presence there appears to contradict Iranian assertions that its nuclear program is civilian in nature.
American officials said the demands to Iran in this week’s meetings would be broad. The country will be told that, to avoid sanctions, it must adhere to an agreement that would allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to go virtually anywhere in the country to track down suspicions of nuclear work. Iran will have to turn over documents that the agency has sought for more than three years, including some that appear to suggest work was done on the design of warheads and technologies for detonating a nuclear core.
Iran will also be told that its scientists will have to be interviewed, presumably including those who ran the highly secret Projects 110 and 111, which American intelligence officials, after piercing Iran’s computer networks in 2007, said they believed were at the center of nuclear design work. Iran has denied that the projects exist. Administration officials acknowledge it is unlikely that Iran will accede to all of those demands....
It is IRAQ ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!
You GONNA GET FOOLED AGAIN, Amurkn s***-munchers?
In interviews and public comments, the administration’s tone has clearly become more confrontational.
That's because of the you-know-whose (rhymes with) giving 'bamer and Gatesy their orders!!!!
In an interview to be broadcast today on ABC, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said the hidden facility was “part of a pattern of deception and lies on the part of the Iranians from the very beginning with respect to their nuclear program.’’
Oh, if that isn't a pitch-black pot hypocritically hollering kettle!
One of Obama’s other national security advisers said in an interview, “Until this week, the Iranians always seemed to have the momentum. We had to reverse that. Now they have to answer the question: If they’ve kept secret an enrichment center under a mountain, what else have they forgotten to tell the inspectors?’’
What else has my MSM "forgotten" to tell us, readers?
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A Boston Globe Invisible Ink Special:
I believe they call it censorship.
"Iran to allow IAEA visit, inspect nuclear site" by Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer | September 26, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran --Iran said Saturday it will allow U.N. nuclear inspectors to examine its newly revealed, still unfinished uranium enrichment facility as world criticism mounted over the underground site that was developed secretly.
The presence of a second uranium-enrichment site that could potentially produce material for a nuclear weapon has provided one of the strongest indications yet that Iran has something to hide -- despite its repeated assertions that its program is only to generate electric power.
This is NOT JOURNALISM, folks, this is PURE ZIONIST PROPAGANDA!!
That is what your NEWSPAPERS are FILLED WITH, America!! AGENDA-PUSHING ZIONIST GARBAGE!
That impression was reinforced by a close aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said the site will be operational "soon" and would pose a threat to those who oppose Iran. "This new facility, God willing, will become operational soon and will blind the eyes of the enemies," Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani told the semi-official Fars news agency....
Because AP said it I'm supposed to believe it?
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!
I want to know what was LOST IN the MISTRANSLATION!!!
The six powers will demand that Iran prove to the increasingly skeptical group that its intentions with its various sites are peaceful and energy-related, as Iran claims, and not for weapons development, as the West believes, the official said Saturday. These nations now agree that they are less inclined to listen to suspect arguments or incomplete evidence -- viewing it as a stall tactic, the official said....
Earlier Saturday, President Barack Obama in his weekly radio and Internet address offered Iran "a serious, meaningful dialogue" over its disputed nuclear program, while warning Tehran of grave consequences from a united global front....
Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, who heads Iran's nuclear program, said there was nothing secret about the site and that Iran complied with U.N. rules that require it to inform the world body's nuclear agency six months before a uranium enrichment facility becomes operational. "Under (NPT) rules, we are required to inform the IAEA of the existence of such a facility 180 days before introducing materials but we are announcing it more than a year earlier," he said....
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed grave concern about the facility and said "the burden of proof is on Iran," in a statement by his office released after he met privately with Ahmadinejad Friday night....
What a TOOL!
Yup, GUILTY until PROVEN INNOCENT!
Hans Blix, the former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, however, told Sky News television that Iran was clearly bucking the international community's demand that it keep its activities transparent. Blix, speaking from Stockholm, told the broadcaster that the clerical regime was clearly going against the spirit of the international community's demands. "The revelation of a second plant shows that they are not exactly transparent, as the IAEA has asked them to be," he said. "This has not been an exercise in openness."
You didn't listen to Blix on Iraq, MSM, so why quote him now.
And then get THESE WORDS that should NEVER MAKE a REPORT!
If Iran were developing nuclear weapons, it would be at precisely such a place, noted Mark Fitzpatrick, of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. "If they were to develop a nuclear weapon they would probably do it at a clandestine facility so that they wouldn't trigger the obvious trip wire," he said....
Do YOU want YOUR KIDS DYING for ISRAEL because of an IF, America?
MORE CENSORSHIP from the Boston Globe (proving they are every bit the equal of their anal-raping parent):
"The White House responded to the development by urging Iran's complete and immediate cooperation with the IAEA. "After hiding this site from the international community for years, full transparency is essential, and it is time for Iran to play by the rules like everyone else," White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said.
EVERYONE ELSE except ISRAEL, that is!!!!!
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"Iran to allow U.N. at nuke site
Yeah, Glob knew all about it but decided not to print it.
Ali Akbar Dareini ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHRAN | Iran will allow the U.N. nuclear agency to inspect a newly revealed and still unfinished uranium enrichment facility, the country's nuclear chief told state television Saturday.
Iranian Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi said there was nothing secret about the site and that Iran complied with U.N. rules that require it to inform the International Atomic Energy Agency six months before a uranium enrichment facility becomes operational.
When is ISRAEL going to COMPLY?
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Oh, the ISRAELIS STOLE the BOMB from us, huh?
Gee, Israelis sure like to STEAL THINGS!
"Inspection will be within the framework of the regulations ... we have no problem with inspection [of the site]. We will work out this issue with the agency and will announce the date of the inspection later after reaching an agreement with IAEA," Mr. Salehi said....
Mr. Salehi, who is also the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said Tehran should be praised, not condemned, for voluntarily revealing the existence of the nuclear facility.
I agree.
