Bolton Discredits Iran Weapons Report

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3380659,00.html



WASHINGTON (AP) - A report by U.N.
investigators that they have found no evidence of
an Iranian nuclear weapons program ``is simply
impossible to believe,'' Undersecretary of State
John R. Bolton said Wednesday.

Bolton said Iran has enriched uranium with both
centrifuges and lasers and has produced and
reprocessed plutonium.

``It attempts to cover its tracks by repeatedly
and over many years neglecting to report its
activities and in many instances providing false
declarations to the IAEA,'' Bolton said in a speech
at a dinner of The American Spectator magazine.

The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency
said in a report this week that Iran had been
involved in numerous cases of covert nuclear
activities, including uranium enrichment and the
production of small amounts of plutonium that
effectively put the nation in violation of the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

By admitting to past errors, mistakes, omissions, Iran has gotten itself out of immediate trouble with the IAEA. They outmaneuvered the US. I sincerely hope that John Bolton develops an ulcer as a result.

,...wants to avoid its past mistakes in inadvertently providing fuel feeding those PNAC pursuers. Ya know what I mean?

If Bolton wants to discredit the report, he should agree with it.

Bolton is a thorough discredit to the human race.

Is it possible these guys are living in a world of dark fantasy, that they are so deluded by their visions of fear and paranoia that they are INCAPABLE of understanding the world as it really exists?

Or is this just a cynical maneuvering on the part of the neocons, part of their plot to subvert democracy and cow dissent at home by making us very afraid?

I really hope that the second option is what's going on, because if they are really so deluded as to believe all of this we are in for deep deep trouble.

They'be been there and they report they found no evidence. How can he repudiate that? He hasn't been there on the ground!

who guaranteed WMDs in Iraq?

Oh nothing to see here, move along

for his extremely bellicose and provocative public statements. Had to get CHINA to get the talks back on track with the US agreeing that Bolton would be kept AWAY from the talks.

Bush*s own weapons expert and a team of 1500 couldn't find even TRACES of WMD in Iraq.
Why isn't Bolton complaining about Kay's ineptitude? Why isn't he demanding Bush appoiont someone who knows where to look?

Bolton, wolfowits, Cheny, Rumsfeld, Bush et al are War Criminals deserving of world court justice. Or, enemy combatants who should be whisked away in the dead of night to a Gitmo-type compound in Iraq or Syria to be held forever for their crimes against humanity.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, on Thursday rejected US criticism of its report on Iran's nuclear programme.

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However, a spokesman for the Vienna-based agency said on Thursday: "We stand by the report, but it's confidential and will be considered at next week's (IAEA) board meeting."

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A western diplomat in Vienna said the failures cited by the report bolstered the US position that Iran was in violation of its nuclear obligations and should be referred to the UN Security Council.

But given the admissions by Iran and the agreement on co-operation it reached last month with the foreign ministers of the UK, France and Germany, he said the 35-member board of the IAEA would resist any US attempt to raise the diplomatic pressure.

"In some ways the report is so damning that it strengthens the US position but in other ways it weakens it because Iran is now doing things and other board members might say let's not spook them," said the diplomat.

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like blast:

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and reject:

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and deny:

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