Does Iran Already Have Nuclear Weapons? (From Various Sources)

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[maquiladora]

With all the talk of Iran being anything from a few months to a decade away from producing their own nuclear weapons, you may be surprised to find that there is a great deal of material dating back several years which may prove or at least point to the fact that Iran already has nuclear weapons and has had them for some time.

I will present below the evidence from various sources, with links to the full articles.

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"Iran does have nuclear weapons", General Yuri Baluyevsky, the Russian Deputy Chief of Staff told journalists, adding: "Of course, these are non-strategic nuclear weapons. I mean these are not ICBMs with a range of more than 5,500 kilometers and more. But as a military man, I see no danger of aggression against Russia by Iran."
http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles_2002/Jun_2002/iran_has_nuke_6602.htm

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Goss, who came to Ankara just after FBI Director Robert Mueller’s visit, brought up Iran’s alleged attempts to develop nuclear weapons. It was said that Goss first told Ankara that Iran has nuclear weapons and this situation was creating a huge threat for both Turkey and other states in the region.
http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2005/12/turkey-goss-reportedly-told-ankara.html

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According to Iranian government documents in Israel's possession, Iran received several nuclear warheads from a former Soviet republic during the early 1990s, THE JERUSALEM POST reported.
The documents have been deemed authentic by United States congressional experts and are still being studied in Israel. They contain correspondence between Iranian government officials and leaders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards that discusses Iran's successful efforts to obtain nuclear warheads from former Soviet republics. The documents appear to bolster reports from 1992 that Iran received enriched uranium and up to four nuclear warheads from Kazakhstan, with help from the Russian underworld.
http://www.fas.org/news/iran/1998/980409-iran2.htm

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Despite the fact that the CIA recently reported that Iran was only 10 years away from acquiring a nuclear bomb, Timmerman said Iran has had the capability to produce the necessary fissile material since 1995. That’s when China gave Iran the blueprints to build a uranium conversion facility.
Timmerman postulated that in the last 10 years, Iran has been able to make enough fissile material for 20 to 25 nuclear bombs.
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2005/11/10/news/local/iran1111.txt

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Guiora, who holds dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, served for 19 years in the Israel Defense Forces Judge Advocate General Corps. He has negotiated repeatedly with the Palestinians, including the safe passage agreement between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Both he and Brauner maintain that Iran, not the Palestinians, present the gravest threat to Israel. Iran has nuclear warheads, scattered in some 20 sites, Guiora said. This makes it difficult to remove them in a single strike, as Israel did by bombing Iraq’s nuclear reactor near Baghdad in 1981.
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2006/02/01/news/local/bcover0127.txt

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1992 Iran acquires nuclear weapons "ready for immediate use" from CIS countries, according to the German weekly Focus. The weapons are reportedly "an atom bomb which can be dropped from an airplane and a launcher for missiles with nuclear warheads."
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1869.html

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February 1992. The Washington, DC-based Defense and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy newsletter reports Iran is within two months of reassembling nuclear warheads acquired from the former Soviet Union. Iran has hired nuclear scientists from Kazakhstan.
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1869.html

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March 1992. A US Republican task force reports that Iran has possessed all of the necessary components to build a nuclear bomb since December 1991.
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1869.html

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March 1992. Paul Muenstermann, vice president of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), says that Iran received two of three nuclear warheads and medium-range nuclear delivery systems that are missing from Kazakhstan. Iranian officials and the commander of the CIS Joint Armed Forces reject these claims. Russian General Victor Samoilov, however, who handles disarmament issues for the CIS general staff, admits that three nuclear warheads were missing from Kazakhstan. Also, Iran allegedly purchased four 152mm nuclear shells from the former Soviet Union, which were allegedly stolen and sold by former Soviet Army officers. The Iranian Foreign Ministry denies these allegations. Lt. General Sergey Zalentsov, senior commander of the United Armed Forces of the CIS and deputy-in-charge of all CIS nuclear arms, also rejects the reports. Iran reportedly received the warheads from Kazakhstan through Bulgaria. However, Iran did not receive the necessary launch codes or missiles capable of carrying the warheads.
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1869.html

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US magazine US News and World Report quotes an unidentified high-ranking Russian officer as substantiating a US intelligence report that three short-range nuclear weapons have disappeared from an arsenal in Kazakhstan. The US magazine reports the weapons have been sold to Iran.
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1869.html

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April 1992. The European of London reports that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has said that Iran definitely received two warheads stolen from Semipalatinsk. The report says that the organization selling the weapons had ties to Kazakhstan President Nursaltan Nazarbayev.
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1869.html

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May 1992 Russian television reports that Russian intelligence has told the CIA that two nuclear warheads from Semipalatisk, Khazakhstan, were sold to Iran and another unknown Middle East country with the permission of Kazakhstani President Nazarbayev. The warheads are of a capacity ranging from 2 to 5 kilotons.
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1869.html

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December 1992, Two Iranian diplomats discuss via telephone the acquisition of four nuclear warheads by Iran from one of the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. The two diplomats are identified as an Iranian Foreign Ministry official Abdolrahmani, who is in charge of relations with the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union, and Iranian Deputy Sirus Nasiri Tabatabai-Kia, who is second in command in the Iranian delegation to United Nations institutions and international organizations in Geneva. In the tapped phone conversation between Abdolrahmani and Tabatabai-Kia, which is obtained from an European intelligence service, Abdolrahmani confirms that one of the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union sold four warheads to Iran. Tabatabai-Kia notes that the purchases "completed their mission in the best possible way." Abdolrahmani says that the warheads had not arrived because of a problem with transportation, and that he does not know how much the warheads cost because "some other guy arranged the issue of the payment." In the course of the conversation, the names of Iranian President Rafsanjani's brother-in-law Hajj Mohsen Rafij, and the Iranian defense minister Akbar Torkan are mentioned in connection with the sale.
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1869.html

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March 1993, The Arms Control Reporter reports that by December 1991, Iran had imported four nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union, including a nuclear artillery shell, two nuclear warheads that could be launched on Scud missiles, and one nuclear weapon that could be delivered by a MiG-27 aircraft. The report says that fissile material was exported from Kazakhstan to Iran and the rest of the components were exported from other republics of the former Soviet Union through Turkmenistan. Although the codes to arm the warheads were not provided with the missiles, the report says two experts from Russia arrived to bypass arming codes.
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1870.html

---------- 11 April 1998, Labor MK Rafi Elul says that Israel and the United States have suspected for years that Iran acquired nuclear weapons smuggled from the former Soviet Union. Elul reportedly met with an unknown US source, reportedly with longtime connections to the Israeli government, in March 1998 who said that in 1995 she gave both the CIA and Israel Iranian government documents on Iran's successful efforts to obtain nuclear weapons.
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1875.html

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Following a series of Jerusalem Post articles saying that Iran acquired nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union, two US Congressmen, Jim Saxton and Bill McCollum, say that they have closely followed Iran's military programs and that Iran "has obtained nuclear weapons as well as established a ballistic missile command-and-control system to launch them."
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1875.html

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Given all these and probably a lot more documented reports out there, not to mention unknown amounts of classified reports, there can be little doubt that Iran already has nuclear weapons, and when you consider this in the context of a potential and likely future military attack on Iran by the US or Israel, then the importance of this is clear.

[Cronos]

burnt like pigs

The mahound has been smelling too much bacon methinks...

[dforest]

Thinking about this leaves me with a feeling of unease come January 20th. As we speak, the Obama “court jester”, Joe Biden, is in the mideast saying and doing God knows what.

Nothing good will come of it.

[DoughtyOne]

The only good thing, is that people will finally get to see where the Democrats want to lead us. If this belly-full doesn’t wake those people up, nothing will.

[Cronos]

Please don’t call that Izlammonutjob a Persian, call them Iranis — they and we reserve the term “Persian” to call non-Ayatollah fans

[Cronos]

Actually, all the Mad Moos seem to be furious that our leader with the African first and last name and Arabic middle name, ISN’T one of them. Remember what OBL and his lapdogs called O.

[mkjessup]

Please don’t call that Izlammonutjob a Persian, call them Iranis — they and we reserve the term “Persian” to call non-Ayatollah fans

Noted. I'd like to think that true Persians would want nothing to with the Islamofascist poison that seized their country in '79.

[TommyDale]

ROTFLMBO!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FARS.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FARS.

[zebbra]

Given the numerous reports of missing nuclear material - it is clear that someone sure as hell does have them! - and the most likely buyer, and the most likely to be able to reprocess the nuclear material into workable weapons is going to be Iran. People have asked, why havn’t they used them then? - what are they waiting for?

To answer this you need to think like a Mullah ie a religious maniac - someone quite happy to send waves of 15yr old boys into battle as human minesweepers, armed with nothing more than a plastic ‘key to paradise’ around thier necks http://www.israel-palestina.info/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=106

A’jads spiritual mentor was Khomeini and let slip a very revealing quote (now deleted from all but the first editions of his speeches)

“We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.”

–Ayatollah Ruhollah Musawi Khomeini

What did he have in mind exactly when he said that? - emerge from what? and where have the major powers dissappeared to, that leaves Islam triumphant?

A’jad being a devout 12ver has of course added a new spin, with as he has stated, the main goal of his regime being to ‘pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Immam’ (who famously will only appear when the world has descended into complete chaos and misery)

It seems clear to me that thier intention is to spark a nuclear shooting match betwen the major powers that leaves them all crippled, with muslims left relativley unscathed to retore a global caliphate under the 12th immam.

Trouble is that Shia’s constite only 15% of muslims, whilst the Sunnis, thier bitter enemies, are busy colonising, and will eventually by sheer demographics, claim the West for themselves - leaving the Shia’s high and dry on the tides of history.

The Mullahs are uncertain how proactive they need to be in hastening the coming of the Mahdi - they would ideally like to force either the great or little Satans to attack it first - and then claiming the moral high ground, launch a well prepared mega terror assault, with thier aquired nukes on the US, Israel, Europe and whomever else they calculate would cause Armaggedon (probably Russian and Chinese cities as well)

This is why the ‘irrational’ behaviour towards Israel - incendiary rhetoric, threats, missile launches, nuclear processing - it’s all designed to force Israel into attacking Iran - and claim the leadership of the wider muslim world.

There is a great deal more I could say about this especially the intentions of Russia and China - but I truly wonder dooes the US intel even consider these scenarios and motivations? - or are they really as appearances would suggest, so totally incompetent and blinded by PC, that they are beyond all hope?