Duplicity undermining NPT: IAEA chief

The major powers are acting contrary to the spirit of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) because they are modernizing their arsenals rather than making efforts to scrap them, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei stated on the sidelines of a 145-nation IAEA general assembly meeting.

That's because the underlying intent of the NPT was never to eliminate the nuclear weapons of the nations that have them but to stop non-nuclear nations from acquiring them...

IAEA Chief: Iran Could Make Nuke In 6 Months

"If Iran wants to turn to the production of nuclear weapons, it must leave the NPT, expel the IAEA inspectors, and then it would need at least, considering the number of centrifuges and the quantity of uranium Iran has...It would need at least six months to one year," ElBaradei said. " Therefore, Iran will not be able to reach the point where we would wake up one morning to an Iran with a nuclear weapon," he said.

Notice the headline - "Iran Could Make Nuke in 6 Months"!!! - That's the shock effect - but the really important part of the statement is the last sentence!!!

Iran presses on with nuclear enrichment

"Iran is pressing on with uranium enrichment "non-stop," its envoy to the U.N. nuclear agency was quoted as saying on Saturday, despite a world powers' offer of economic incentives to coax Tehran into halting such activities."

Vanunu nails Iran and Democracy

"How can Israel, the only country in the Middle East known to have a nuclear weapons program expects all others not to even have peaceful nuclear energy programs?"

ElBaradei: If you attack Iran, I quit

"IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei says he will step down if major powers launch a military strike against Iran over its nuclear program."

ElBaradei doubts Syrians had ability to develop nuclear facility

"We have no evidence that Syria has the human resources that would allow it to carry out a large nuclear program. We do not see Syria having nuclear fuel," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamad ElBaradei told Al-Arabiya television Tuesday.

US face slapped by Russia's nuclear fuel delivery to Iran

"Moscow's fuel delivery to Tehran is another signal that the Bush administration's Iran policy has failed, political observers say."

Russia and Iran agree on nuclear deal

"Speaking shortly before the Russian and Iranian foreign ministers were scheduled to meet in Moscow, Atomstroieksport president Sergei Shmatko announced that the two countries had agreed to complete building the $1bn (£490m) plant at Bushehr."

Iran’s pragmatic energy policy

An answer for those who asks, why does Iran need nuclear energy?

Has US Abandoned Israel on Iran?

"A U.S. intelligence report made public this week has some Israelis wondering if Israel may be forced to go it alone in a possible military strike against Iran."

I certainly hope so... What is so conveniently left out of the oft repeated story that Israel "destroyed" Iraq's Osiraq nuclear facility is the fact that Iraq was neck deep in the war with Iran and more importantly, Iran had successfully attacked and damaged the facility a year earlier.

Helen Thomas: No nukes in Iran, just as in Iraq

"Israel is believed to have the only nuclear arsenal in the Middle East but has never permitted the U.N. to inspect its weapons program and has never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Nor has any U.S. president publicly pressured it to do so."

It Turns Out Ahmadinejad Was the Truthful One

President Bush meets with reporters at Tuesday’s White House press briefing. - AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who took office as Iran’s president in August of 2005, two years after Iran’s nuclear weapons program ended, has now been vindicated in his claims that Iran has abandoned the weaponization program. Not so Bush, who has summarily dismissed the intelligence community’s findings and, using his favorite tactic in dealing with debacles, is sticking to his original story."

Empire and Nuclear Weapons

"Like cannibalism and slavery, nuclear weapons can be abolished. The question is whether we humans have the will and courage to choose life."

U.S. report on Iran's nukes puts Israel in difficult position

"Israel says it will continue to scrutinize Iran's nuclear capabilities, including this facility at Bushehr, despite a U.S. report saying Iran froze its nuclear weapons program in 2003."

"With Israel's warnings about the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran having been undermined from the least expected source, Washington, Israeli officials are scrambling to figure out their Plan B."

I'll bet you a dollar to a donut that a similar picture is hanging somewhere in Ahmadinejad's office and the Iranians are keeping a close eye on the comings and goings at Israel's Dimona WMD facility.

Bush calls on Iran to 'come clean'

President Bush makes a statement about Iran, and former Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, who is running for the Senate in Nebraska, not pictured, upon his arrival at Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

President Bush, trying to keep pressure on Iran, called on Tehran Wednesday to "come clean" about the scope of its nuclear activities or else face diplomatic isolation.

A wise man once said: "A man who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man and should be followed ~ A man who knows but doesn't know that he knows is confused and should be taught ~ But, a man who doesn't know and doesn't know that he doesn't know is a fool and is dangerous and should be shunned."

In which category would you put Bush? The President is either terribly delusional or has had another one of his up-close-and-personal chats with God about Iran's nuclear energy program? Either way, he's a clear and present danger to the world.

PM: New U.S. report on Iran nukes proves need for sanctions

"Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that a new U.S. intelligence report on Iran's nuclear program released the day before demonstrate the need for tighter international sanctions in order to ensure the Islamic republic can never acquire nuclear weapons."

The typically twisted logic of Israelis, Israeli Firsters, and Zionists. This behavior must be associated with at least one mental disorder.

Israel snubs US report on Iran

"While the U.S. intelligence services should be given credit for trying to correct their mistake, they failed to explain how they reached their new conclusions regarding Iran's nuclear program."

Israel doesn't want to accept the NIE findings regarding Iran's nuclear energy program ~ imagine my complete lack of surprise....

An Assessment Jars a Foreign Policy Debate About Iran

The White House is still wary of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. (And, President Ahmadinejad is probably still wary of the White House.)

"Rarely, if ever, has a single intelligence report so completely, so suddenly, and so surprisingly altered a foreign policy debate here."

That's what happens when the "intelligence" is based on fabrications and mis-representations.

Barak: Iran likely restarted nuclear arms program

"Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday that Iran had probably restarted its nuclear weapons program, contradicting a U.S. intelligence report that said it was frozen in 2003 and remained on hold."

The Israelis never quit ~ they never stop trying to get Americans to die to protect their theocracy. No, Israel IS NOT a democracy.

Iran stopped it's nuclear weapons program in 2003, but still enriches uranium

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a news conference after the opening of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Doha, December 3, 2007. REUTERS/Fadi Al-Assaad (QATAR)

"Iran halted its nuclear weapons development program in the fall of 2003 under international pressure but is continuing to enrich uranium, which means it may still be able to develop a weapon between 2010 and 2015, senior intelligence officials said Monday."

Damn! Damn! Damn! Iran stopped the nuclear weapons program ~ DAMN! DAMN! DAMN! - Senior Busch Admin Saurce