Rowhani 'halted nuclear weapon programme': ex-ambassador
Source: Agence France-Presse
Iranian President-elect Hassan Rowhani personally stopped the development of a clandestine nuclear weapon in 2003, a former ambassador to the country said Saturday.
Writing in the International Herald Tribune newspaper, Francois Nicoullaud, France's ambassador to Iran from 2001 to 2005, said he believed Rowhani was the "main actor" in persuading the country's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to halt the secret programme.
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"Based on conversations that I had at the time, as French ambassador to Tehran, with high Iranian officials close to the matter, I firmly believe that Rowhani was the main actor in the process," Nicoullaud wrote. "Of course, Iranians could not admit to a foreigner that such a program ever existed, and I cannot name the officials I spoke to."
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"Uranium enrichment was the visible part of it but there was a hidden section, the manufacture of a nuclear device --once they had produced enriched uranium, how to put it on the head of a missile and how to deliver it to 'friends' in the region --that's the programme Rowhani stopped," the former ambassador said.
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he can actually read the minds of his adversaries, in Farsi - such is the power of his French mind compared to the lowly Third World Iranians.
"Of course, Iranians could not admit to a foreigner that such a program ever existed, and I cannot name the officials I spoke to."
They could admit nothing - in words - but Francois had undreamed of powers at his disposal.
"Uranium enrichment was the visible part of it but there was a hidden section, the manufacture of a nuclear device --once they had produced enriched uranium, how to put it on the head of a missile and how to deliver it to 'friends' in the region --that's the programme Rowhani stopped," the former ambassador said.
Praise be to Allah - I feel this Frenchman reading my innermost thoughts on our secret nuclear weapons programme !!! I better warn Hassan Rowhani about this extraordinary Ambassador who has found us out !!!
