The Poxy Iranians have 1/3-A-Bomb readied.

[Zelhar]

IAEA info suggests Iran worked on nuclear missile

By GEORGE JAHN – 1 hour ago

VIENNA, Austria (AP) — 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, said diplomats who attended the meeting Tuesday.

Responding to the presentation to the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a senior U.S. envoy said the information was compelling evidence against the Islamic Republic. His Iranian counterpart said the material shown was fabricated.

Other diplomats, who demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to comment on the closed meeting's details, described the information as credible but unverified. The presentation relied on photos and documents pertaining to what U.S. intelligence says were Iranian efforts to work on nuclear weapons program up to 2003. After that year, according to a U.S. intelligence estimate, Iran apparently stopped such activity.

The briefing focused on an IAEA report circulated to the board members Monday that faulted Iran for blocking efforts to further investigate the alleged weapons program. The report also confirmed that Iran was expanding uranium enrichment activities — which can make both nuclear fuel and warhead payloads — despite three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions.

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, and the presentation Tuesday went into greater detail, the diplomats said.

Iranian officials say the missile has a range of 1,250 miles, enabling a strike on Israel and most of the Middle East.

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. He said the senior IAEA official doing the briefing "told us that information they have is very credible."

The Iranian envoy said the IAEA determined that the material shown could not verified.

"We have given clear information ... (on) why this material is fabricated," Ali Ashgar Soltanieh told reporters in separate comments. He called for "an end to this endless process" of probing Iran for evidence of an arms program he said never existed.

A diplomat inside the meeting said the truth lay somewhere between the U.S. and Iranian standpoints, telling The Associated Press board members were told "the information is credible but cannot be verified."

Another said that while the information was compelling, most of it was known and what was new in the presentation "appeared to be only a few new photos and diagrams."

With IAEA deputy Director General Olli Heinonen ill, the briefing was conducted by his aide, Hermann Naeckerts, who was "more cautious" than Heinonen had been at an earlier briefing, he said.

In Washington, the State Department said it would host a meeting of top negotiators from the five U.N. Security Council countries and Germany on Friday to discuss how to proceed in wake of Monday's IAEA report, which was also send to the council. Officials said the meeting would be held to prepare for a gathering of the six foreign ministers expected next week on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly session in New York.

The U.S and its Western allies would like to see new U.N sanctions against Iran, but Russia and China traditionally oppose harsh Security Council action. China said Tuesday that further penalties will not resolve the nuclear impasse.

Still, White House spokesman Gordon Johdroe spoke Monday of "the possibility of new sanctions." And on Tuesday, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier told reporters that Paris had "no other choice than to work in the days and weeks to come toward a new Security Council sanctions resolution."

The IAEA's latest report suggested Iran has now amassed a third of the amount of enriched uranium it could reprocess into the material for the fissile core of a nuclear weapon should it choose to do so. But U.N officials familiar with the report emphasized that Iran — whose known nuclear programs are under IAEA supervision — has shown no indication it wanted to go that route.

The U.S. and its allies allege that Iran wants to develop its uranium enrichment program to make nuclear weapons. But oil-rich Iran insists it only wants to make nuclear energy, and IAEA oversight and inspections of its known enrichment program has not found any evidence that contradicts that.

Associated Press writers Matthew Lee in Washington and Jamey Keaten in Paris contributed to this report.

[syyuge]

The world is still in dark if there are any mutual relationships between Iran and AQ.
 

[briann]

Well... Im sure the great stateman Obama will be able to talk things out with Ahmadinejad.

[Ben Yehuda]

I guess Israel is waiting till they have 99%?

[Zelhar]

This is really alarming news. Also today it was reported that Iranian plans to redesign their Shahab missile to carry a nuclear warhead were discovered.

These Poxy muslim nazi beasts should themselves be wiped out.

[zachor_ve_kavod]

Well, Israel might be worried about the millions of muslim terrorists who would pour into the country if they strike iran, as well as a full out war against the entire arab world.  This is of course possible if Israel's airforce attacked iran's nuclear facilities.  It is also possible that an airstrike may not be effective enough.  Perhaps Israel need to consider using some of its more dangerous weapons...

[syyuge]

  Perhaps Israel need to consider using some of its more dangerous weapons...

[ASHISH]

Israel is making the same mistake that india did with pakistan and now india is payinng the price.I say forget about f22 or f35 IMO israeli f15 and f16 are more than enough to do the job.

[Zelhar]

Israel is making the same mistake that india did with pakistan and now india is payinng the price.I say forget about f22 or f35 IMO israeli f15 and f16 are more than enough to do the job.

Damn right so, everything must be done to stop them right now. I think that Israel can take down the Irani fortified installations with low yield nuclear bunker buster bombs.

[syyuge]

Damn right so, everything must be done to stop them right now. I think that Israel can take down the Irani fortified installations with low yield nuclear bunker buster bombs.

Exactly...