B4 WW2, Hitler paid Stalin to train the Wehrmacht, and had manufacturing facilities there to cheat on the Versailles pact, so now..
GERTZ:
Apparently this source is NOT EXACTLY UP ON THINGS.LONDON -- Western intelligence sources said Iranian scientists were stationed at the Syrian plutonium production plant in Al Kibar, destroyed in an Israeli air strike in September 2007.Iran paid N. Korea for plutonium facility and had scientists based there
They said the Iranians as well as Syrian personnel were trained by North Korea to operate Al Kibar, designed to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.
Sequence of photos: By late October 2007, workers covered the site with earth [1], and subsequently laid a new foundation [2], and erected a light metal-framework building [3] over the site of the destroyed reactor. GlobalSecurity.org
"Had Al Kibar not been destroyed, Iranian scientists would have played a major role in plutonium production," a Western source said.
The sources said Al Kibar was virtually completed by the time the Israel Air Force bombed the facility. They said the facility was not believed to have received nuclear material.
Iran paid North Korea for the construction of Al Kibar, the sources said. They said Teheran, which has been completing a heavy water plant at Arak, sought to establish the plutonium production facility to conduct nuclear weapons assembly outside of Iran and near Israel.
Teheran has also financed joint missile production with Syria. The sources said Iran's remaining obstacle to nuclear weapons was the ability to install a nuclear warhead on a missile delivery system.
The Iranian delivery system selected for a nuclear warhead has been the Shihab-3B intermediate-range missile, the sources said. They said Iran, with assistance from North Korea, was expected to complete weaponization by mid-2009.
Khan's stolen nuke weapon plans small enough to fit on Shihab 3 type missile
ONE- Is Iran engaged in building nuclear weapons? (DUH)
TWO- Can Iran be negotiated out of being 'bad'? (DUH)
THREE- Can Iran's leaders be deterred just like any other
'normal, non apocalypse believing' nation?
OR...
Will their nuclear test take place in Tel Aviv?
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