Iran’s maulana’s are consistently displaying their utter lack of mental abilities that happens to be a hallmark of these hujra dwellers. Their handpicked maulana leader is totally devoid of logic.
Pakistan needs to watch out. We may have another basket case country at our doorsteps.
Iran gives UN bomb part instructions By Mark Heinrich and Francois Murphy
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report on Friday that Iran had given it a document which diplomats said included partial instructions for making the core of a nuclear bomb.
The U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the disclosure heightened concerns about weaponisation, but other diplomats and a U.S. nuclear expert said more inquiry was needed.
“Iran’s full transparency is indispensable and overdue,” IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said in his report to the agency’s board of governors, due to meet on November 24 to consider again whether to send Iran’s case to the U.N. Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions.
The report, obtained by Reuters, said documents the IAEA was given included one “on the casting and machining of enriched, natural and depleted uranium into hemispherical forms.”
One European diplomat described it as a “cookbook” for the enriched uranium core of a nuclear weapon.
A diplomat close to the IAEA said the document dealt with an “important aspect” of making an atomic weapon. “But for a cookbook you would need hundreds of pages and what we have here is a few. It’s more an outline than a step-by-step 'how to.”’
A former U.N. weapons inspector, David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security, said the document fell far short of a building manual for a bomb core.
“Iran has gone from saying it got nothing on this subject to (saying it got) a little bit,” Albright said. “But the question remains: did Iran get more than it admitted to?”
“This (document) opens new concerns about weaponisation that Iran has failed to address,” the U.S. ambassador to the IAEA, Gregory Schulte, said in a statement.
Tehran told the IAEA the document had come to it unsolicited from people linked to the black market set up by disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.
“This has to have a weapons use … The only question is ‘Did they go looking for this’? The Iranians say they didn’t,” said another Western diplomat.
Iran says it wants to use nuclear power only to generate electricity and has the legal right to do so. But it hid a nuclear development program from the IAEA for 18 years until 2003, raising Western doubts about its intentions.
Concern rose further when the Islamic republic’s president said last month Israel should be “wiped off the map.”
NEW URANIUM PROCESSING GOES AHEAD
ElBaradei also confirmed Tehran had begun processing a new batch of uranium on Wednesday despite Western pressure to halt sensitive atomic work. Iran acknowledged this on Friday but did not say when work had begun.
“We consider that this is a decision which does not go in the right direction,” a French Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
While Iran had been “more forthcoming” in giving access to documents and information in some areas, the IAEA report said, questions on the nature of its nuclear plans persisted.
ElBaradei’s report asked Iran to provide information on dual-use equipment procurement and allow visits to locations linked to sites such as Lavizan, which Washington says was used for secret nuclear work but was bulldozed before IAEA inspectors could go there.
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, quoted by the semi-official ISNA students news agency, said earlier Tehran could not accept the IAEA demand for more access “especially since Lavizan-Shian is a military complex.”
France, Britain and Germany, who led now-stalled European Union negotiations with Iran, met U.S., Chinese and Russian officials in London on Friday to discuss whether to haul Iran before the Security Council for possible sanctions.
The London talks were also due to discuss a Russian idea, tentatively approved by the EU trio and Washington, meant to break the stalemate with Iran by letting it continue some nuclear fuel output but shift uranium enrichment to Russia.
Enrichment, the step that follows conversion, purifies uranium to the level needed to fuel power plants or, if enriched further, to the level needed to build a nuclear weapon.
Before Moscow’s initiative, the EU and Washington pressed for Iran’s referral to the Security Council. Russia and China, which have veto power on the body, have resisted. Moscow says referral would politicize the issue.
Larijani, who has asked the EU trio to resume talks, reiterated Iran would never drop its nuclear plans, but told the semi-official Mehr news agency he believed the IAEA board meeting would be “positive and favorable for Iran.”
(Additional reporting by Madeline Chambers in London, Parisa Hafezi in Tehran, Francois Murphy in Vienna and Louis Charbonneau in Berlin)