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From Redneck Texan:
Telegraph - China has betrayed one its closest allies by providing the United Nations with intelligence on Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear technology, diplomats have revealed.
Concern over Tehran's secretive research programme has increased in recent weeks after officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, discovered that Iran had obtained information on how to manufacture nuclear-armed weapons.
Beijing is believed to have decided to assist the inspectors after documents seized from Iranian officials included blueprints for "shaping" uranium metal into warheads, the testing of high explosives used to detonate radioactive material and the procurement of dual-use technology.
Much of the new material was presented to the governors of the Vienna-based IAEA in February. That meeting is said to have triggered China's change of heart.
Diplomats described Beijing's decision to provide material related to Iran to the IAEA as a potentially significant breakthrough.
Chinese designs for centrifuges that refine uranium into a "weaponised" state have been found in Iran but these are thought to have come through a network controlled by the disgraced Pakistani scientist AQ Khan.
John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, said suspicions over the leakage of technology from China to Iran had long centred on uranium enrichment technology and their bilateral ballistic missile trade.
A spokesman for the IAEA said it did not comment on intelligence it received from its members.
Go read the whole thing.
- Iran Could Have Atomic Bomb Within 6 Months: German Intel
Which I think is right in line with recent Israeli and American estimates. Though there have been so many lately it's getting hard to keep track of who's betting on what. Other than the annihilation of either Israel or Iran, that is. . . Newsmax:...
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- Iran Wants Western "apology" After Iaea Report
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran called on its Western foes on Friday to apologize to the Islamic Republic after the release of a U.N. nuclear agency report which Tehran said showed it had been telling the truth about its atomic plans, according to state media....
- And For Those Who Shock Easily.."iaea Report Says Iran Has Bomb Plans"
OOPSIE, so sorry, Seymour Hersh. VIENNA — A document obtained by Iran on the nuclear black market serves no other purpose than to make an atomic bomb, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday. The finding was...
- Iran Switching To Improved P-2 Centrifuges In Underground Facilities Near Pakistan
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China Reveals Iran's Nuclear Secrets To UN
From Redneck Texan:
Telegraph - China has betrayed one its closest allies by providing the United Nations with intelligence on Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear technology, diplomats have revealed.
Concern over Tehran's secretive research programme has increased in recent weeks after officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, discovered that Iran had obtained information on how to manufacture nuclear-armed weapons.
Beijing is believed to have decided to assist the inspectors after documents seized from Iranian officials included blueprints for "shaping" uranium metal into warheads, the testing of high explosives used to detonate radioactive material and the procurement of dual-use technology.
Much of the new material was presented to the governors of the Vienna-based IAEA in February. That meeting is said to have triggered China's change of heart.
Diplomats described Beijing's decision to provide material related to Iran to the IAEA as a potentially significant breakthrough.
Chinese designs for centrifuges that refine uranium into a "weaponised" state have been found in Iran but these are thought to have come through a network controlled by the disgraced Pakistani scientist AQ Khan.
John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, said suspicions over the leakage of technology from China to Iran had long centred on uranium enrichment technology and their bilateral ballistic missile trade.
A spokesman for the IAEA said it did not comment on intelligence it received from its members.
Go read the whole thing.
- Iran Could Have Atomic Bomb Within 6 Months: German Intel
Which I think is right in line with recent Israeli and American estimates. Though there have been so many lately it's getting hard to keep track of who's betting on what. Other than the annihilation of either Israel or Iran, that is. . . Newsmax:...
- Iran May Already Have A Full-fledged Nuclear Warhead
Really? Who woulda thunk it? Well, at least now, some people in the international community are beginning to face the painfully obvious. From Ynet: US, European experts believe Iran already has full nuclear capabilities but has chosen to appease international...
- Iran Wants Western "apology" After Iaea Report
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran called on its Western foes on Friday to apologize to the Islamic Republic after the release of a U.N. nuclear agency report which Tehran said showed it had been telling the truth about its atomic plans, according to state media....
- And For Those Who Shock Easily.."iaea Report Says Iran Has Bomb Plans"
OOPSIE, so sorry, Seymour Hersh. VIENNA — A document obtained by Iran on the nuclear black market serves no other purpose than to make an atomic bomb, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday. The finding was...
- Iran Switching To Improved P-2 Centrifuges In Underground Facilities Near Pakistan
NICOSIA — Iran plans to rapidly expand uranium enrichment by deploying an advanced gas centrifuge. Officials said Iran has been testing an advanced centrifuge to accelerate nuclear fuel production. Teheran has been testing the P-2 centrifuge, deemed...