Dear IAEA,
For over two years the evidence has existed to prove to any sentient being that Iran was interested (almost exclusively) in obtaining nuclear weapons. You ignored the evidence. You dismissed the rhetoric.
Then comes CIA with a report in 2007 that says they aren't making bombs. But sirs, the report never said that. It very carefully scooted the issue, and why, because after the scathing attacking on CIA over Iraq, it did not want to be attacked as promoting war, again. Yet the question should be, who wrote the reports and did the reports say what we have come to believe they said. The second answer is easier - no.
The CIA report did not claim Iran was not working toward nuclear material. It was vague about the conclusions, allowing you to read what you wanted to read, and you chose to believe Iran was peaceful. Why? because to believe Iran was not peaceful casts a light on everything Iran has said in so far as everything, including Israel, and you prefer hating Israel or rather, finding Israel responsible for all the evil in the world rather than placing blame where it should go, in this case - Iran.
The president of Iran and the grand ayatollah leading Iran have said from the start that Iran has a right to nuclear power. Why should the West be the only ones with nuclear power, for nuclear power makes you equal, and Iran has this complex about inferiority / superiority. They used the disguise of nuclear energy to push through all their developments - we have the right to nuclear power, no one can stop us. And in truth and fact, this is the case - they can and do have a right to have nuclear energy. Bush argued that Iran could have all the nuclear power it wanted, as long as it sold/gave the waste product to France/Russia for disposal. Iran ignored this secondary clause and concentrated on their position - the right to energy. They made that statement so many times, the world forgot what they were concerned about.
All the time voices have warned that Iran was not interested in the energy so much as the weapons. In fact, a report you provided eight months or more ago to the world body stated your fears - that they were doing more than energy, yet you ignored the warning signs and did nothing.
Do you have any idea why very few human beings trust the IAEA or the UN? You just provided it, like Chamberlain - you cannot pretend, you cannot ignore, you cannot hope people and countries will behave simply because they promise they will.
Foolish. Naive. And the world has become a far more dangerous place.
U.N. agency fears Iran may be working on nuclear warhead
By Bridget Johnson - 02/18/10 04:08 PM ET
An International Atomic Energy Agency report expresses worry that Iran may be working on a nuclear warhead, despite a 2007 U.S. intelligence assessment that found the Islamic Republic stopped such work in 2003.
The United Nations' nuclear watchdog also confirmed that Iran had indeed enriched uranium to nearly 20 percent, a claim made by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during revolutionary anniversary festivities last week but rebuffed by the White House.
"We do not believe they have the capability to enrich to the degree they say they are enriching," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at last Thursday's daily briefing.
But the IAEA report said that Iran had hit 19.8 percent enrichment on two days last week.
"I think the conclusions of the report are consistent with what the secretary was saying in the region this week," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Thursday. "We have ongoing concerns about Iran's activities. We cannot explain why it refuses to come to the table and engage constructively to answer the questions that have been raised, and you have to draw some conclusions from that."
The report by the new head of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, appears to raise greater concerns about Iran's capabilities than the assessments of his predecessor, Mohamed ElBaradei.
"Altogether, this raises concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile," said the report.
"These alleged activities consist of a number of projects and sub-projects, covering nuclear and missile related aspects, run by military related organizations."
The Associated Press indicated that the U.S. may go back and revise the intelligence assessment to determine if Iran resumed weapons work after the 2007 report.
In Tehran on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad said "the U.S. supremacy is melting away just like snow in front of the sun," according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.
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