Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today dismissed the London Times’ leaked memo accusing Iran of attempting to produce a trigger for a nuclear warhead as an American forgery.
The Times article from last week cited “confidential intelligence documents” mentioning work on uranium deuteride, which officials insisted had only military uses. Western officials cited the article as the latest justification for cracking down on Iran.
Ahmadinejad also mocked the Western “deadline,” the latest of several dates by which the US wants Iran to agree to all demands or face additional sanctions. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs insisted that the deadline was “very real.”
The Iranian president showed decided fatigue at answering repeated accusations that his nation is pursuing a nuclear weapon, despite repeated IAEA assurances that they are not diverting any uranium to such a purpose. He declared “these constant allegations against Iran have become an unfunny joke and make us and our nation just puke.”
We're all Iranians now – puking on the never-ending story of forgeries and assertions leaked only for their propaganda effects.
It is I suppose a tribute to "their" effectiveness.. [the constant stream] Look at the record, they have neutered Egypt, the puppet there lavishly financed on U.S. taxpayer dollars.. A billion + a year and remember the 12 billion that bush 1 forgave in debt for them to help with the "Saddam problem"…Look at Saudi Arabia, it was their crew that ran the scam [apparently] that ushered in bizarro world. The king there defending the slaughter in Gaza.. It seems that the FIX is rather "in"… ?"What can go wrong"?
Reminds me of the forgery "proving" that Iraq was acquiring uranium yellowcake in Africa.
In the linked timesonline article, people hastily jump to conclusions and are already getting their Colt Peacemakers out:
— Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for non-proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, said: “The most shattering conclusion is that, if this was an effort that began in 2007, it could be a casus belli. If Iran is working on weapons, it means there is no diplomatic solution.” Mr Fitzpatrick said: “Is this the smoking gun? That’s the question people should be asking. It looks like the smoking gun. This is smoking uranium.”
I don't know what this guy is actually smoking (dried Bolton powder?) but if "The West + Israel" didn't attack Pakistan or India or North Korea about *real* nukes, then why smoke Iran about triggers? They still need the actual highly enriched uranium, too.
The sad part of this article is that Ahmadinejad is more believable than the London Times, the "confidential intelligence documents" sited by the London Times, or the Western Officials who sited the article as a pretext to enact a starvation blockade against the innocent people of Iran. It is not that I think Ahmadinejad has a Ron Paul like intregrity about him, and is not above lying when it suits his purposes. It is the barbaric war lust of the leaders of the American government and their wllingness to manufacture any lie in order to scare the sheeple into supporting another Middle Eastern War that tips the scale in this case. In fact, Western officials siting newspaper articles that make scary accusations based upon confidentional intellgence documents sounds very similar to the propaganda campaign used to lie the American people into war with Iraq.