Iran disputes UN finding that it worked on nuclear arms

Associated Press ^ | Jan. 11, 2016 4:56 PM EST | George Jahn

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Iran has rejected an assessment by the U.N. nuclear agency that it did past work on nuclear arms but is praising some aspects of the agency's investigation of the issue, reflecting satisfaction that the more than decade-long probe has ended.

Closure of the file means that some questions about the alleged weapons work may never be resolved. Before the 35-nation board of the U.N's International Atomic Energy Agency adopted a resolution last month ending the investigation, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano told the meeting that his investigation couldn't "reconstruct all the details of activities conducted by Iran in the past."

But both Iran and the international community are eager to put the issue behind them in order to be able to implement a landmark nuclear deal that commits Tehran to significant limits on its nuclear activities for over a decade in exchange for relief from crippling economic sanctions. ...

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• Israeli minister: Iran doesn't need one centrifuge (video at link) [2014]
• Iran's Arsenal Of Sunburn Missiles Is More Than Enough To Close The Strait [2012]
• Why is Iran Developing ICBMs? [2013]
• Israelis warn of Eritrea flashpoint [2009]
  • Iran Deploys Troops, Ballistic Missiles To Eritrea [2008]
  • Eritrea warns of "consequences" for U.S. in Somalia [2007]
  • Secret aid for al-Qa'ida in Somalia [2007]
  • U.N. says Somalia arms embargo violated
    (Hezbollah's dirty hands in Somalia and Iran's Mahdi army ) [2006]
• Yemeni Officials Facilitating Iranian Missile Shipments? [2009]
• Jihadis Report Of Syrian Meddling In Yemen [2009]
• Iran: Leader of the Sunni Movements (with an intro by Michael Ledeen) [2008]
• 4 Sunni Muslim Groups Responsible for 66% of All 17,958 Terror Killings in 2013

  [and 85-90% of the world's Muslims are Sunni, IOW, Shiites kill twice as many per capita]

• Israel reportedly bombed arms warehouses in Libya [2015]
  • Breaking: Iran Has Several Military Bases in Libya [2011]
  • Iran Has Several Military Bases In Libya [2011]
• Iran Declares 'Successful' End Of Negotiations With Russia On S-300 System
• Russians help Iran with missile threat to Europe [2005]
• Obama: No, Iran Won't Be More Dangerous with $150 Billion Dollars [2015]
• Time to Recognize the Iranian Resistance [2015]
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The administration will take Iran's word for it. Doesn't matter anyway, there's nothing but a verbal agreement anyway, neither Iran nor the US having signed Obama's farce.