iran <3 the bomb

the anti-bush wing of the us intelligence community came out with the brilliant assessment that iran had stopped all work on nuclear weapons in 2003. all of the other red flags that pointed to their continal development were ignored. the lifelong usless-crats of the state department and cia wouldn't know their buttom from a hole in the ground. so, we have to again go over-seas to find a NEWSPAPER that points out what everyone has always known.. the iranians are cooking up a bomb...


Iran has resumed work on making advanced equipment that nuclear experts say
is principally used for developing atomic weapons, the The Telegraph reported
Monday, citing intelligence reports received by Western diplomats.

The British newspaper said that the goal of the work was to develop the
blueprint provided by Pakistani scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the so-called
father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, who sold Iran information on building atom
bombs in the early 1990s.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has established several
civilian companies to work on the program, continued the Telegraph , adding that
the companies' operations were being intentionally hidden from UN nuclear
inspectors.

The paper went on to say that the companies, based outside Teheran,
were working on constructing components for the advanced P2 gas centrifuge,
which can enrich uranium to weapons grade two to three times faster than
conventional P1 centrifuges.

Iran's nuclear enrichment program at Natanz runs on P1 centrifuges, but
Iranian nuclear scientists recently conducted successful tests on a prototype P2
centrifuge at the site. The IRGC has now set up a network of companies to build
components for the advanced centrifuges, raising Western concerns that Iran is
continuing work on its nuclear weapons program, continued the Telegraph.

"If Iran's nuclear intentions were peaceful, there would be no need for
it to undertake this work in secret," the newspaper quoted an official familiar
with the intelligence reports as saying.

A previous secret attempt by Iran to develop P2 centrifuges was halted
in 2004 after a civilian company set up by the IRGC was exposed. UN nuclear
inspectors found traces of weapons-grade uranium at the company when they
inspected the site.

According to recent intelligence reports, said the Telegraph , Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad personally ordered the IRGC to set up companies
for the clandestine construction of components for P2 centrifuges this year.

The paper claimed that one of the companies was located in a
residential building in Amir Abad, western Teheran, where its work is unlikely
to be detected by UN inspectors, adding that another of the facilities was
reportedly run by a company owned by the IRGC.

The Telegraph reported that the operation was a direct copy of the
IRGC's previous attempt to develop P2 centrifuges, when research work was
undertaken by the Kalaye Electric Company, which claimed it was manufacturing
watches.

When its actual operations were revealed to UN inspectors in 2004, they
found the company had managed to build the centrifuges and enrich small
quantities of uranium to weapons grade.

Senior officials from Iran's Atomic
Energy Agency are supervising the current clandestine program, based on the
atomic weapons blueprint sold to Iran by Khan in 1994, reported the Telegraph .

neville, where are you?