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Iran Nuclear Watch:: Boasts of Nuclear Program Propaganda?

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) shakes hands with Russia’s security chief Igor Ivanov (C) as Iran ‘s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani (R) looks on in Tehran. Ivanov vowed to launch Iran’s nuclear plant on schedule in September after talks in Tehran with leaders of the Islamic republic.

Guardian Unlimited: Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders

Boasts of a nuclear programme are just propaganda, say insiders, but the PR could be enough to provoke Israel into war

Iran’s efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the material used to make nuclear bombs, are in chaos and the country is still years from mastering the required technology.

Iran’s uranium enrichment programme has been plagued by constant technical problems, lack of access to outside technology and knowhow, and a failure to master the complex production-engineering processes involved. The country denies developing weapons, saying its pursuit of uranium enrichment is for energy purposes.

Read the entire piece.

Flap agrees that intelligence from the Iranian nuclear program is sketchy at best. This is Cold War stuff.

However, this piece smacks of DISINFORMATION coming directly from Iran’s Mullahs meant for the Iran nuclear appeaser crowd in Europe and the United States.

Who REALLY knows how far along the Iranians are in their nuclear program?

And who REALLY wants to roll the dice?

Certainly, not Israel and the United States.

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Iran ‘s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani (R) shakes hands with Russia’s security chief Igor Ivanov (L) during a press conference in Tehran

Flap does agree with one statement in the piece:

Yet some involved in the increasingly aggressive standoff over Iran fear tensions will reach snapping point between March and June this year, with a likely scenario being Israeli air strikes on symbolic Iranian nuclear plants.

And the “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN:”

The escalating sense of crisis is being driven by two imminent events, the ‘installation’ of 3,000 centrifuges at Natanz and the scheduled delivery of fuel from Russia for Iran’s Busheyr civil nuclear reactor, due to start up this autumn. Both are regarded as potential trigger points for an Israeli attack.

Iran has already set in motion an ever cascading series of events that are unacceptable to Israel and the United States. As soon as the logistics are in place, the nuclear facilities of Iran will be destroyed by military means.

Captain Ed has Iran Loses Its Bearings

The Israelis face that now with Iran. Iran represents a material and existential threat to the existence of Israel, especially with the new Shahab-3 missiles Iran has tested the past few years. Even without the nuclear warheads, those missiles could hit all over Israel. Tipped with nukes, they could wipe out the entire country — and more than a few of the Palestinians — in a few minutes. They cannot afford to just sit and watch the Iranians bring nuclear facilities on line without reliable, outside verification of their civilian purposes, nor can they abide Russian deliveries of nuclear materials without verifiable controls on their use.

If these events come to pass, expect the Israelis to act aggressively to protect themselves. And perhaps that’s what the mullahs really want: an attack from Israel would unite the nation under their rule for the next twenty years, much more so than a narrowly-targeted American strike. If so, then the billions thrown away on this program will be forgotten as Iran continues its life in darkness for at least another generation. The sensible and cosmopolitan Iranian people will have lost the bearings in more than just the literal sense.

Stay tuned……..

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.


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