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NNN0LHI

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Fri Feb 3, 2012, 08:08 PM Feb 2012

A lack of proof for the bomb

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=/data/opinion/2012/February/opinion_February14.xml&section=opinion

Jonathan Power (POWER’S WORLD)

4 February 2012

Many of us doubt that Iran is on the way to build a nuclear bomb. Trying to find the truth is not easy. It was a bit of a one sided conversation since I don’t know the inner workings of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN body that monitors nuclear developments.

But Robert Kelly, a nuclear energy engineer and ex-department director at the IAEA, has brought me up to speed.

According to him the evidence described in a widely quoted report issued in November 2011 by the Director General of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, is sketchy. Furthermore, the way the data has been presented produces a sickly sense of déjà vu.

It is accepted that Iran at one time had a nuclear weapons’ programme. The country’s enormous investment in a secret underground uranium-enrichment complex in the city of Natanz is proof of a clandestine operation. The military plutonium-production reactor in Arak is yet another indicator.

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I am not in the least concerned tech3149 Feb 2012 #1

tech3149

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1. I am not in the least concerned
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 10:25 PM
Feb 2012

does Iran have a nuclear program? Without a doubt, they have admitted as much. The IAEA monitors their known facilities 24/7. Satellite monitoring would detect any concentration of highly enriched uranium. Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? All reasonable intelligence says no. Not since 2003.
Would it even matter if they were developing nuclear weapons? To me it wouldn't matter and I think the rest of the world should consider it just a minor irritation.
Ask yourself two simple questions. One might require some research, the other some logical reasoning.
When in history has ever taken aggressive action against another nation?
If they developed and used a nuclear weapon, what would be the response of the rest of the world?
Here's my answer to those two simple questions.
In over two thousand years Persia (aka Iran) has never taken aggressive action against another territory.
Should Iran use a nuclear weapon against another state without provocation they would be obliterated. They are not foolish enough or suicidal to let that happen.

It's time we learned that it's much better to quit pissing in other peoples sandbox and share our toys.

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