Cracks Open in Iran Nuke Charges

from Consortium News:



Cracks Open in Iran Nuke Charges
November 19, 2011

Many Washington pundits who championed the false tales about Iraq’s WMD have returned to center stage in the new accusations about Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. And some of the Iran charges are falling apart just like the Iraq ones, as Gareth Porter reports.

By Gareth Porter


A former inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repudiated its major new claim that Iran built an explosives chamber to test components of a nuclear weapon and carry out a simulated nuclear explosion.

The IAEA claim that a foreign scientist – identified in news reports as Vyacheslav Danilenko – had been involved in building the alleged containment chamber also has now been denied firmly by Danilenko himself in an interview with Radio Free Europe published on Friday.

The latest report by the IAEA cited “information provided by Member States” that Iran had constructed “a large explosives containment vessel in which to conduct hydrodynamic experiments” – meaning simulated explosions of nuclear weapons – in its Parchin military complex in 2000.

The report said it had “confirmed” that a “large cylindrical object” housed at the same complex had been “designed to contain the detonation of up to 70 kilograms of high explosives”. That amount of explosives, it said, would be “appropriate” for testing a detonation system to trigger a nuclear weapon. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2011/11/19/cracks-open-in-iran-nuke-charges/

US spends $500 Bn plus per year on our war machine....you have got to let us use it somewhere! Isn't there a work-around we can use here?

You don't have to have a favorable opinion of the Iranian government to see that the globalists just don't like countries that won't submit. The common feature of the countries that get badmouthed - Argentina, Venezuela, Iran, etc. - are their refusal to kowtow to the lords of international financial capital.