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Despite IAEA findings, Iran sings its old nuke-for-peaceful-purposes tune |
Even as a secret IAEA report revealed that Iran is capable of making
a nuclear bomb and is developing a missile system to carry an atomic warhead,
Iranian officials have reiterated claims that the Islamic nation's nuclear program
is intended for peaceful purposes. Fox News quoted Iran's ambassador to the International
Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, as saying that Iran is sincere in
wanting to negotiate with the West. He added that Western countries should "read
between the lines" about Iran's intentions. Although the prospects of finding
anything between the lines were almost nil after the surfacing of the IAEA report,
but Soltanieh insisted that discussions with the West would be a "real, new window
of opportunity." The secret U.N. watchdog report, titled "Possible Military Dimension
of Iran's Nuclear Program," concludes: *Iran worked on developing a chamber inside
a ballistic missile capable of housing a warhead payload "that is quite likely
to be nuclear." *Iran engaged in "probable testing" of explosives commonly used
to detonate a nuclear warhead - a method known as a "full-scale hemispherical
explosively driven shock system." *Iran worked on developing a system "for initiating
a hemispherical high explosive charge" of the kind used to help spark a nuclear
blast. "Iran has sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable
implosion nuclear device (an atomic bomb) based on HEU (highly enriched uranium)
as the fission fuel," The agency assessed. On October 1, Iran is scheduled to
meet with the U.S. and five other world powers seeking curbs on its atomic activities
for the first time in more than a year. However, Tehran says it is not prepared
to discuss its nuclear activities. |
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