Post by concrete on Feb 26, 2012 18:08:55 GMT 10
U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb
By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: February 24, 2012
www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/world/middleeast/us-agencies-see-no-move-by-iran-to-build-a-bomb.html?_r=1&hp
So. We have all these politicians screaming about Iran trying to build a 'nuclear bomb'. If governments won't listen to their own intelligence. What fuckin hope do we have that they will listen to their electorate?
Now before you start screaming that Iran did not let the IAEA investigate the Parchin site. So what? A a signatory of the NNPT. Iran has the leagal right not to allow inspectors onto military sites. Just as the US has the legal right to not allow IAEA inspectors onto it's military sites.
Speaking of the US. The US, Canada and the UK are in breach of the NNPT. As signatories, just as Iran is, they should be ASSISTING Iran develop civilian nuclear technology. Instead, they are being influenced by a country which has NOT signed the NNPT. Theres something twisted about that.
If they truely want to control Irans nuclear research. Then they shold be flooding Iran with scientists, engineers AND, GIVE Iran enriched uranium for it's programme. That way Iran doesn't enrich its own and TPTB know how much fissible material Iran has.
Seems pretty fucking simple doesn't it?
Don't worry kids. The invasion is still on. The nuclear stuff is just a cover to try and get public support.
As I said what hope do we have? The million man march, and the proof of faked documents, did not stop the US/UK from invading Iraq.
Those narcasistic fucks in the halls of power don't give a shit about you, or me. But they sure as shit worry about living in the real world.
By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: February 24, 2012
WASHINGTON — Even as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said in a new report Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb.
Recent assessments by American spy agencies are broadly consistent with a 2007 intelligence finding that concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier, according to current and former American officials. The officials said that assessment was largely reaffirmed in a 2010 National Intelligence Estimate, and that it remains the consensus view of America’s 16 intelligence agencies.
At the center of the debate is the murky question of the ultimate ambitions of the leaders in Tehran. There is no dispute among American, Israeli and European intelligence officials that Iran has been enriching nuclear fuel and developing some necessary infrastructure to become a nuclear power. But the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies believe that Iran has yet to decide whether to resume a parallel program to design a nuclear warhead — a program they believe was essentially halted in 2003 and which would be necessary for Iran to build a nuclear bomb. Iranian officials maintain that their nuclear program is for civilian purposes.
In Senate testimony on Jan. 31, James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, stated explicitly that American officials believe that Iran is preserving its options for a nuclear weapon, but said there was no evidence that it had made a decision on making a concerted push to build a weapon. David H. Petraeus, the C.I.A. director, concurred with that view at the same hearing. Other senior United States officials, including Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have made similar statements in recent television appearances.
Recent assessments by American spy agencies are broadly consistent with a 2007 intelligence finding that concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier, according to current and former American officials. The officials said that assessment was largely reaffirmed in a 2010 National Intelligence Estimate, and that it remains the consensus view of America’s 16 intelligence agencies.
At the center of the debate is the murky question of the ultimate ambitions of the leaders in Tehran. There is no dispute among American, Israeli and European intelligence officials that Iran has been enriching nuclear fuel and developing some necessary infrastructure to become a nuclear power. But the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies believe that Iran has yet to decide whether to resume a parallel program to design a nuclear warhead — a program they believe was essentially halted in 2003 and which would be necessary for Iran to build a nuclear bomb. Iranian officials maintain that their nuclear program is for civilian purposes.
In Senate testimony on Jan. 31, James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, stated explicitly that American officials believe that Iran is preserving its options for a nuclear weapon, but said there was no evidence that it had made a decision on making a concerted push to build a weapon. David H. Petraeus, the C.I.A. director, concurred with that view at the same hearing. Other senior United States officials, including Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have made similar statements in recent television appearances.
www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/world/middleeast/us-agencies-see-no-move-by-iran-to-build-a-bomb.html?_r=1&hp
So. We have all these politicians screaming about Iran trying to build a 'nuclear bomb'. If governments won't listen to their own intelligence. What fuckin hope do we have that they will listen to their electorate?
Now before you start screaming that Iran did not let the IAEA investigate the Parchin site. So what? A a signatory of the NNPT. Iran has the leagal right not to allow inspectors onto military sites. Just as the US has the legal right to not allow IAEA inspectors onto it's military sites.
Speaking of the US. The US, Canada and the UK are in breach of the NNPT. As signatories, just as Iran is, they should be ASSISTING Iran develop civilian nuclear technology. Instead, they are being influenced by a country which has NOT signed the NNPT. Theres something twisted about that.
If they truely want to control Irans nuclear research. Then they shold be flooding Iran with scientists, engineers AND, GIVE Iran enriched uranium for it's programme. That way Iran doesn't enrich its own and TPTB know how much fissible material Iran has.
Seems pretty fucking simple doesn't it?
Don't worry kids. The invasion is still on. The nuclear stuff is just a cover to try and get public support.
As I said what hope do we have? The million man march, and the proof of faked documents, did not stop the US/UK from invading Iraq.
Those narcasistic fucks in the halls of power don't give a shit about you, or me. But they sure as shit worry about living in the real world.