The IAEA Report On Iran
The NY Times has posted the IAEA report (pdf) on Iran’s nuclear program. As the NYT writes:
The long-awaited report relies on evidence whose scope and depth is far greater than any the agency has made public before, andrepresents the harshest judgment that the International Atomic Energy Agency has ever issued in its decade-long struggle to pierce the secrecy surrounding the Iranian program . . .
The report offered no estimate of how long it would take for Iran to be able to produce a nuclear weapon. But it laid out the case that Iran had moved far beyond the blackboard to create computer models of nuclear explosions in 2008 and 2009 and conducted experiments on nuclear triggers. The report said that starting in 2000, the Iranians constructed a vessel to conduct those tests, which was not shown to inspectors who visited the site five years later.
Those tests “are strong indicators of possible weapon development,” it said.
Reuters/JPost says hard UN sanctions are still unlikely. It’s all about the skewed voting system…
Posted: 9th, November 2011 | In: Politicians Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
