Aww… The IAEA is feeling betrayed:
“This is the smoking gun,” said Henry D. Sokolski, executive director of the Washington-based Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. “They lied — again.”
Seriously, how much evidence does it take before the IAEA will admit that Iran is building nuclear weapons?
Diplomats said in Vienna Thursday that UN inspectors sifting through Iran’s nuclear files have discovered drawings of high-tech equipment that can be used to make weapons-grade uranium… Preliminary investigations by the inspectors working for the IAEA indicated they matched drawings of equipment found in Libya and supplied by Khan’s network… The diplomats… said Iran did not volunteer the designs… they said, IAEA inspectors had to dig for them.
Literally the next paragraph is:
The diplomats emphasised that – despite calling into question Iran’s pledge to be fully open – the find did not advance suspicions that Tehran was trying to make nuclear weapons.
WHAT?!?! They found plans to make nuclear weapons – the same plans that everyone else trying to make nuclear weapons has!!!! Is the claim is that they were in contact with Khan (nickname: “The Father Of the Islamic Bomb”) to figure out how to get electricity? Memo to the IAEA – his nickname is not “The Father Of the Islamic Way of Extracting Electricity From Nuclear Fuel”. Do you know why? Because he built bombs!!!! Does a nuclear weapon actually have to grow legs, walk up, and introduce itself before the IAEA will acknowledge it – “good morning, I am an Iranian nuclear weapon”?!?! At this point, I’m willing to entertain the notion that it’s the IAEA itself that
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