IAEA officials keep reiterating the allegations made in this week’s report on Iran’s nuclear program, and hawks keep insisting what is contained within amounts to “proof” of a military dimension in Iran’s current program, even though it is clearly nothing of the sort.
For Iranian officials, the whole situation is simply something to ridicule, as officials mocked the “lousy” intelligence work of the atomic watchdog and said that nothing claimed in the IAEA document showed that the Parchin site had anything but conventional weapons research.
In what is perhaps a tacit acknowledgement that the publicly released report falls well short of the hype, officials are now claiming that the IAEA has been showing a special “secret” set of intelligence on Iran to a select 35 nations.
Exactly what was in the “secret” evidence is unclear, but was apparently the source of diplomatic conclusions (since debunked) that V.I. Danilenko, a physicist with no background in nuclear physics, was a major foreign contributor to their weapons program.
IAEA has been showing a special “secret” set of intelligence on Iran to a select 35 nations.
Hardly a secret when 35 nations let into it.
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Once upon a time, Saddam Hussein had 81mm tubes that were used as the bodies of artillery rockets, but the FedGov declaimed, "They are for use in a nuclear weapons program!" The IAEA thereupon rushed in and launched an investigation, but found to the astonishment of one and all that the tubes were indeed nothing more than the bodies of artillery rockets. The IAEA issued a paper stating this, and the more honest elements of the global media duly published the findings. The FedGov had egg on its face! The Emperor was not to be mocked! But whatever to do?! The FedGov was not to be deterred by mere facts and egg on the face, however, for its minions were (and indeed still are) professional liars and hacks, and shortly thereafter it launched an invasion of Iraq. And so it has come to pass that the FedGov learned a valuable lesson from the Iraqi 81mm tube affair – pack the IAEA with stooges, spies and bought agents of influence, so that when a stainless steel container is discovered in Iran, the verdict will be, "It's a nuclear weapons program!" Isn't it wonderful not to be contradicted by facts when there's a new war to be launched? The end.
Yeah, I always thought the criminal bull$hit about the AL tubes to have been grossly underemphasized.
Plse note that the US Dept of Energy also stated that, in their view, the tubes were not suitable for nuclear enrichment applications. The DOE is supposed to have the last word on nuclear matters, but thanks to Judith Miller and her associates at the NYT plus fellow travels in the VP's office and else where in government, an active Iraqi nuclear programme was fabricated out of whole cloth.
I asked an energy person around the time that Colin Powell went to the UN and they told me that everyone knows that the tubes must be made of a special type of steel. Aluminum tubes are impossible to work with.
When it comes to contriving excuses for wars, subject experts are only paraded when they are pliable and can be counted on to nod in eager agreement with the falsehoods and innuendos issued by the hacks. The DOE clearly failed to present itself as a pliable tool and was therefore sidelined. For that matter, even the CIA occasionally astounds the world with a blurb of integrity (such as the National Intelligence Estimate of 2007) and finds itself at odds with other agencies that are pushing the war agenda.
The 81 mm size gets another story. One of the early PR Generals in Baghdad had a press conference where he accused the Iranians of providing mortor shells to Iraqi insurgents. The knowledgable reporters started questioning his honesty by telling him that the smallest mortors used by Iran were 107 mm tubes and that the 81 mm shells were commonly used by the US and also had English markings, not Farsi. Cheney and his crew would attempt time and again to try to tie Iran to weapons going to Iraq and also Afghanistan. Cheney would try to get an attack against Iran based on the lie that shaped charge explosive devices were all from Iran. It would be found that almost all were being easily built in Iraqi garages based on designs available from the website of Globalsecurity.org. The Generals who stopped him in all his insane bids were forced into retirement. Think Admiral William Fallon and General Peter Pace. The sychophantic Genrals who constantly repeated the lies were promoted; think General Petraeus. The State Department still pukes out those same lies about Iranian EFP's.
One day the Iraqis are building a nuclear weapon and the next day they don't have the expertise to fabricate a shaped charge. You couldn't make up the stuff the Bush Administration tried to pass off as truth.
And all that they were Jesus loving Cons…i think jesus condones liars as long they are cons
Addendum to Val's bedtime story… Once burned, never again allow "evidence" to be made public. Keep it "secret" but pass it around to those you want to sway with smooth talk and serious arm-twisting – all in good diplomatic good humor, of course. But under no circumstances allow the "evidence" to be put under a microscope – or the jig will be up and proof that the Emperor has no clothes will be there for the entire world to see!!
"I'll show you MINE, if you show me YOURS" ………
The IAEA has been getting "COACHED" by Sandusky from Penn State.
And is JUST as FILTHY.
Yeah but come on… How do we know for sure that they don't have super duper secret proof? Maybe it would be safer if we just bomb the hell out of the country and kill millions of them. They wouldn't lie again…would they?
Gwynne Dyer makes apoint that Iran would not secretly make one or thwo bombs (compared with the USA's 5133) since the whole point is deterrence. Only a few paranoid israelis, and not including Mossad, think Iran would attack israel or the USA with its one bomb. It has no need, since if attacked it could at once close the vital strait of Hormuz and ruin the world economy. Iran is more rational than the rantings of the West would indicate. War seems their only interest.
Reminds me of Nixon's secret plan to end the Vietnam War. It was so secret even he didn't know what it was.
Remember that Persians/ today's Iranians invented Chess. They are not wild eyed camel jockeys, but very practical individuals and understand the principles of MAD; Mutually Assured Destruction. We are lucky there are still a few investigative journalist who can poke holes in the BS that the Zionists at State are attempting to foist off on the citizens.