Posted by Wymark on 11/6/2009, 10:59 am
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. . . that Nigel and New York Times 'analysts' swore blind was designed to build nuclear weapons, and that this was 'obvious' and 'not worth debating'?
Well, as I said at the time, it turns out that the claim was utter tripe - mere propaganda designed to whip up hatred and fear of Iran, i'd guess, as a prescursor to some sort of military or economic aggression. Iraq/WMD redux, if you like:
'U.N. inspectors found "nothing to be worried about" in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday . . .
. . . ElBaradei was quoted in a New York Times interview as saying his inspectors' initial findings at the fortified site beneath a desert mountain near the Shi'ite holy city of Qom were "nothing to be worried about."
"The idea was to use it as a bunker under the mountain to protect things," ElBaradei, alluding to Tehran's references to the site as a fallback for its nuclear program in case its larger Natanz enrichment plant were bombed by a foe like Israel.
"It's a hole in a mountain," he said'.
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5A13KW20091105
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