[indianrightwinger]

I would not read a whole lot into this report. At the end of the day, Indian politics simply don't allow a stronger stance.

I was watching live Indian News Channel last night, and the report said that a new report proving Iran was supplied by AQ Khan (of Pakistan) with nuclear technology was going to give the Government an out when push comes to shove on referring Iran to UNSC.

[humint]

I know your on the right side IRW... do you have an email address for Singh and these other guys? Maybe they need an FR PING

SOURCE

• John Batchelor: How to read this demonstration of goodwill by the Tehran regime?
• Alireza Jafarzadeh: Well John, demonstration of goodwill? Absolutely not. I think it’s exactly the opposite. I think that Iran feels that the screws are tightening and more revelations are coming. There was this document from the United States government that was released months ago and there have been revelations after revelations by the Iranian opposition so they thought that if they come up with this document to supposedly show their good will, then it might convince some people that their intentions are benign but I think the fact that… first of all, Tehran’s claim that this document was obtained in an unsolicited way, provided by the notorious nuclear scientist of Pakistan A. Q. Khan…
• John Batchelor: In other words, A. Q. Khan, a man who we know associates with money making and selling nuclear technology, out of the goodness of his heart or just because he spontaneously feels like mailing out a document that one day could be linked to making nuclear bombs sends it to Iran and they didn’t ask for it. It just shows up.
• Alireza Jafarzadeh: exactly, and the interesting thing is…
• John Batchelor: It could happen; it could happen [laughter]
• Alireza Jafarzadeh: [laughter] Well the point is that even by their own admission, they say that it was A. Q. Khan who provided this to them in 1987. The question arises; first of all, it was A. Q. Khan who actually traveled to Iran twice in 1986 and 1987, earlier this year I appeared on your show and I said that A. Q. Khan had met three commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards when he was in Iran in 1987. That’s exactly when, exactly the same period that Iran says A. Q. Khan gave this document to them. If it were provided in an unsolicited way, why did A. Q. Khan meet with three generals in the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) at the Brigadier General level? I have a name, Brigadier General Mohamed Islami and they discussed nothing about nuclear energy but clearly about a nuclear weapons program. Second, if this was the case, why has Iran not provided this document to the IAEA since the inspections started?