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Iran Builds Nuclear Missiles, Threatens Israel, Accidentally Misplaces Enough Uranium To Make Six Bombs (Plus: State Department Experts: Engage Iran!)

The Bomb

So the IAEA confirms that Iran is building nuclear missiles - missiles which they've repeatedly boasted about launching at Israel:

The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency shared new photos and documents purporting to show that Iran tried to refit its main long-distance missile to carry a nuclear payload... Part of the report spoke of what appeared to be drawings and calculations by Iranian engineers on reconfiguring its Shahab-3 missile to be able to carry a nuclear payload...The presentation "showed board members for the first time photographs and documents of work undertaken in Iran on the redesigning of the Shahab-3 missile to carry what would appear to be a nuclear weapon," said Gregory L. Schulte, the chief U.S. representative to the IAEA... the senior IAEA official doing the briefing "told us that information they have is very credible."

And the IAEA confirms that Iran has overcome the technological hurdles to large-scale enrichment - not exactly a shock since they put thousands more centrifuges online last month:

Iran has substantially improved the efficiency of its centrifuges that produce enriched uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday, indicating that the nation has overcome some of the technical challenges that had plagued its enrichment program. In a six-page report, the agency charged the Iranians with continuing to stonewall about what some Western governments suspected was Iran’s past research on designing a nuclear weapon. The agency acknowledged that it had failed “to make any substantial progress” in its investigation.

And now there are credible reports that disappeared 6 nukes' worth of uranium. So obviously the natural response - proposed by the very best minds that our State Department has produced - is to talk to Iran about it:

Five former U.S. secretaries of state on Monday announced their support for talks with Iran, with all five saying the United States should not wait to launch diplomatic engagements with the Islamic Republic. The former chief diplomats, Madeleine K. Albright; James A. Baker, III; Warren Christopher; Henry A. Kissinger; and Colin L. Powell issued their support for talks during a roundtable discussion entitled "The Next President: A World of Challenges," held at Washington D.C.'s George Washington University.

It's really too bad that Brzezinski wasn't there. That would've been perfect.

References:
* IAEA info suggests Iran worked on nuclear missile [AP]
* Iran's Revolutionary Guards: Zionist Entity in range of our missiles [Ha'aretz]
* Nuclear Agency Says Iran Has Improved Enrichment [NYT]
* Iran says 4,000 atomic centrifuges working: report [Reuters]
* Iran renews nuclear weapons development [Telegraph]
* Former U.S. secretaries of state say they support talks with Iran [Ha'aretz]
* Obama's Foreign Policy Advisers Not Exactly Fans Of The Jewish State (Plus: Brzezinski Snubs Israel After Tete-A-Tete With Assad) [MR]

Previously:
* State Department Discovers Iran Supports Terrorism
* Reuters Publishes State Department Leak: US Attack On Iran Would Be All-Out War
* Smug Liberal Sophistication Untroubled By Undeniable Evidence That Hardliners Are Winning In Iran

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