UN nuclear watchdog: Iran may be months from nuclear bomb

Haaretz ^ | December 5, 2005 | Haaretz Service and Agencies

[yatros from flatwater]

If Iran's Natanz enrichment plant becomes fully operational, the Iranians could be few months away from a nuclear weapon, the head of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency told the British newspaper The Independent in an interview published Monday.

"If they start enriching this is a major issue and a serious concern for the international community," Mohamed ElBaradei told the newspaper.

"I know they are trying to acquire the full fuel cycle. I know that acquiring the full fuel cycle means that a country is months away from nuclear weapons, and that applies to Iran and everybody else," he added.

Meanwhile, Iran responded fiercely Monday to a call by Likud MK Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel to deal with the Iranian nuclear program in the same way it did with the Iraqi atomic facility it destroyed in a 1981 air strike.

[yatros from flatwater]

Mohamed ElBaradei agrees, Iran will be joining the "club", but we can all be assured that it's a "serious concern for the international community".

[MNJohnnie]

Mohamed ElBaradei agrees

Why is HE still in this job? He has been a COMPLETE failure. More 3rd World Thug lovers at the UN running things. Time for USA to walk from this corrupt failed organization

[Calpernia]

http://inhonor.net/videos/uped/fl_video.php?f_num=52900
Iran's royal presentation
Iranian soldiers showing-off their artistic side.

[Calpernia]

ping

[b4its2late]

but we can all be assured that it's a "serious concern for the international community".

That's for sure....

[Lexington Green]

Leave it to the Israelis. They know what to do.

[slowhand520]

Let me go out on a limb here. The EU is going to offer more concession and we are going to continue this pathetic approach.

[marlon]

What do you mean a failure? Why he just won the Nobel Peace Prize for his fine work stemming the tide of Nuclear expansion. I would put him up there with other greats like Jimmuh Carter in showing the world that the ROP is deserving of our understanding, compassion and of course our capitulation.

[EagleUSA]

More 3rd World Thug lovers at the UN running things. Time for USA to walk from this corrupt failed organization
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We have been droning this for many years now -- this administration does not have the fighting guts to do what is needed with this "den of scum and villany"...(to coin a phrase)

[jveritas]

The problem is that Iran nuclear facilities are too many and they cannot be destroyed in one single air strike as Israel did to Iraq Tamuz nuclear reactor in 1981. Only the United States has the capability of destroying Iran nuclear facilities because such acts require many air strikes for at least one week. However if we start these strikes we must destroy all their military capabilities and not just their nuclear one. It should a four to six weeks of intensive air war like the 1991 Gulf war against Iraq and we must also physically eliminate the Mullahs terrorist leadership.

[yatros from flatwater]

Quite a drill team. Too bad they've never been seen on CNN or even Fox.

I especially enjoyed the depiction of the blood drenched scimitar.

[Calpernia]

Do you know who the swastika represents?

[BlueStateDepression]

Iran will soon have a nuclear bomb and they already posess the means to deliver it to Tel Aviv. They also have the capability to take out numerous satilites with an EMP from a shabob shit straight up.

W has taken a position of setting back with regards to Iran on this issue. European nations have lead the way with diplomacy. This removes the ability of the Eruopean people (and the leftists here in this country) to claim that USA diplomacy failure is the cause of the coming confrontation with Iran. Good play W!

Soon, folks will say that'more should have been done'. Sound familiar?

BiBi came out and said he would strike at Iran's nuclear capability if Iran was close to a nuclear bomb. I think Sharon will beat him to it. I have no doubt that Iran will use a nuclear bomb as soon as they are confident they can send one and make it work. How could they not?

Seriously, think about this a minute. For many years they have fomented a society of hate against Jews and all other non muslims. Wipe Israel off the map, right? Ok lets talk in terms of Iran already having the nuclear bomb = missile capability for a second.

If Iran has the capability to indeed make Tel aviv a smoking crater full of trinitite then how will they justify to their public NOT doing so? Truth is, they could not do so.

When it comes right down to it actually having a bomb or multiple bombs will only do one of two things. It will remove the threat or producing them to use as blackmail for special treatment.

This can be shown in the loss of threat by Kim Jong Il in DPRK. The only threat they now have is proliferation of technology and actual USE. While Kim Jong Il understands the cost of actual Use those leaders in Iran with their muslim fingers on the button of jihad do not, either that or they simply do not care.

Iran's own policy of fomenting hatred is about to bite them in the behind. Either they USE a bomb and are obliterated as japan was ( or even moreso) and the world sees multiple nuclear detonations or they FOLD from within as the public snaps because they don't use their nuclear arsenal.

Basically, Iran is in a lose / lose situation. I think they know it too. Some say time is on their side being so close to a nuclear weapon. I wouldoffer that very step is a plus in our corner. For when they do reach that crossroads, they have less wiggle room than they do now. Time to put up or shut up when that day comes. It is almost here.

[yatros from flatwater]

Excellent analysis.

I believe that the mullahs will attempt to use the means to destroy their "Satans" great and small, as soon as they believe they are able. Their belief system glorifies death, and thus the threat of an opponent inflicting it upon them provides no deterrent -- as it did/does with USSR, PRC, PRK.

[B.O. Plenty]

NOTE TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION:

Hey, I have an idea...why don't you guys just wait to do something about getting rid of the islamic bombs, so the iranians can have enough time to really get it ready, along with a delivery system so they can wipe out, say, NYC or Chicago? We don't need those cities anyway.....what do you think?

WAGE WAR OVER THERE, DAMMIT. Set about winning this war....This stupid political correctness is going to get a lot of us killed right here in America.

BTW, when the bomb goes off, all I can do is pray that it is not in my neighborhood.

[rahbert]

>EMP from a shabob shit straight up

Eh? That sounds messy.

[MeanWestTexan]

We should start a raffle on the first Western city to be blown up. Do the odds a bit like roulette.

Red = Europe
Black = US
Green = Israel

Then bets on any given city:

New York
Chicago
Los Angeles
Dallas
London
Paris

etc.

[BlueStateDepression]

I agree with you there. Mutually assured destruction may not be a valid tool against these islamic zealots. But I will offer a couple things that are different today when it comes to that very method of deterrance.

Today when you say a nuclear attack should be responded to by likewise nuclear detonations the person saying it is chastized with political correctness rhetoric making him out to be the bad guy. Tom Tancredo's recent comments about Nuking Mecca is a good example. For this policy to work it must be said loudly and often to make it perfectly clear, out in the open, what the stakes really are. Today we do not have that.

In addition I would say that Iranian people, as is the case with many more people around the world, do not understand what nuclear warfare really entails. I am of the oppinion that many think they are simply big bombs like the small ones they have grown so accustomed to. They think Depleted uranium is nuclear warfare.

Though we see lots of muslims, especially in Iran, ready to meet Allah at this very moment, I do not think the majority of country sees things that way. I do not think the majority of the middle east sees it that way. If these folks really understood the notion of complete obliteration of their entire society as retaliation for one bomb detonating 1500 feet over Tel Aviv, I think Iranians would throw these mullahs out into the gutter.

[BlueStateDepression]

Very messy indeed.

[yatros from flatwater]

...If these folks really understood the notion of complete obliteration of their entire society as retaliation for one bomb detonating 1500 feet over Tel Aviv, I think Iranians would throw these mullahs out into the gutter.

I'm fairly certain that an air burst (or any other) near Tel Aviv would unleash the "Samson option". That may be the real reason that the Saudis are leery of Iran's progress toward "critical mass".