Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran May Be Hiding Secret Nukes

As Iran’s President departs for New York and the United Nations there are a couple of stories about Iran’s covert nuclear program.

Chief inspector: Iran may be hiding secret nukes

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned Monday that Iran may be hiding secret nuclear activities, comments that appeared to reflect a high level of frustration with stonewalling of his investigators.

IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei said Iran’s stonewalling of his agency was a “serious concern.”

“Iran needs to give the agency substantive information” to clear up suspicions, he told the closed board meeting, in comments made available to reporters. He rejected the Iranian suggestion that the IAEA probe could expose non-nuclear military secrets, saying the IAEA “does not in any way seek to ‘pry’ into Iran’s conventional or missile-related military activities.”

“We need, however, to make use of all relevant information to be able to confirm that no nuclear material is being used for nuclear weapons purposes,” he said, urging Iran to “implement all measures required to build confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program at the earliest possible date.”

If Tehran fails to do so, the IAEA “will not be able to provide credible assurances about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran,” he said.

Diplomats at the gathering described ElBaradei’s comments as unusually blunt…..

Military intelligence: Iran halfway to first nuclear bomb

Iran is halfway to a nuclear bomb, and Hizbullah, Hamas and Syria are using this period of relative calm to significantly rearm, Brig.-Gen. Yossi Baidatz, the Military Intelligence’s head of research, told the cabinet Sunday during a particularly gloomy briefing on the threats facing the country.

Ahmadinejad: We’ll stop any attacker

Baidatz said there was a growing gap between Iran’s progress on the nuclear front and the West’s determination to stop it. “Iran is concentrating on uranium enrichment, and is making progress,” he said, noting that they have improved the function of their 4,000 centrifuges.

According to Baidatz, the Iranian centrifuges have so far produced between one-third to one-half of the enriched material needed to build a bomb.

“The time when they will have crossed the nuclear point-of-no-return is fast approaching,” he said, though he stopped short of giving a firm deadline. Last week in the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, however, he put the date at 2011.

President Bush has decided to punt this issue to the next President and the United Nations is doing nothing but beat their gums about Iran’s non-compliance with inspections.

Israel is now talking about BREAKOUT CAPABILITY.

The attack on Iran is coming unless Iran backs off. But, the Iranian Mullahs do not think the West has the stomach for more war in the Middle East.

The alternative will be the destruction of Israel through nuclear blackmail or another holocaust – this time a nuclear one.

Stay tuned……

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