Posted on 01/25/2010 8:21:01 AM PST by maquiladora
The West has long been suspicous of Iran's nuclear program. SPIEGEL has obtained new documents on secret tests and leadership structures that call into question Tehran's claims to be exclusively interested in the peaceful use of the technology.
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The new information, say American experts, will likely prompt the US government to reassess the risks coming from the mullah-controlled country in the coming days and raise the alarm level from yellow to red. Skeptics who in the past, sometimes justifiably so, treated alarmist reports as Israeli propaganda, are also extremely worried. They include the experts from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), whose goal is prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
According to the classified document, there is a secret military branch of Iran's nuclear research program that answers to the Defense Ministry and has clandestine structures. The officials who have read the dossier conclude that the government in Tehran is serious about developing a bomb, and that its plans are well advanced. There are two names that appear again and again in the documents, particularly in connection with the secret weapons program: Kamran Daneshjoo and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
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Experts believe that Iran's scientists could produce a primitive, truck-sized version of the bomb this year, but that it would have to be compressed to a size that would fit into a nuclear warhead to yield the strategic threat potential that has Israel and the West so alarmed -- and that they could reach that stage by sometime between 2012 and 2014.
The Iranians are believed to have conducted non-nuclear tests of a detonating mechanism for a nuclear bomb more than six years ago...
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Ping.
Don’t expect the Closet Muslim in the White House to do much about it.
Right...so the washington gangsters now will all join hands in a circle, squeeze, and jointly wet their pink panties. With these idiots running the country, WE ARE DOOMED !!
IMO, the Israelis will use this new report to lean on the Obama admin.
Let’s pray that Israel gets it right when they proceed with their mission. GOD bless Israel.
I wonder was this report just accidently left behind in Germany after Bibi's trip there...
If this is a new report, the Israelis knew about it a long time ago
“I wonder was this report just accidently left behind in Germany after Bibi’s trip there...”
I’m not sure. I got to believe any intel coming from Israel these days is going to be vetted pretty heavily. I would imagine most of the Western intel agencies believe Israel is going to do whatever is necessary to paint Iran in a bad light. Probably want to make sure Israel isn’t feeding them a line of BS.
Bibi was in Germany middle of last week - not sure if that would be enough time to vett any info passed along. Who knows though . . . Bibi “dropped off” some damning intel to the Russians regarding Iran not too long ago
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