Iran Deems IAEA’s Report as “Fake”
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A senior member of the Iranian Assembly of Experts on Monday said that the documents the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is about to released this week are “fake”. IAEA announced that it would release some documents this week that prove that Iran is building compute models for warheads capable of carrying a nuclear payload.
Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami urged the IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano not to dishonor the nuclear watchdog by disclosing false documents. Khatami made these remarks while leading the Eid al-Adha prayers on Monday.The same charge was also made by Iranian foreign minister Ali-Akbar Salehi, who on Saturday said that the documents that are about to be presented by IAEA are “baseless and unfounded.”
Amano said that the documents his agency was about to release were hinting at the engagement of Iran in nuclear weaponry, in spite of the sanctions of the United Nations. He urged the Islamic republic to cooperate with IAEA.
Haaretz on Monday publishes an article according to which IAEA has briefed the Western diplomats into the specifics of the deal and that according to them Iran has acquired the capability of producing nuclear weapons within months. The experts said that the Iranian scientists were helped in getting the technology by Russian, Pakistani and NKorean scientists.
According to Haaretz, Iran can assemble a bomb in a few months and carry an underground experiment as soon as the clerical leaders of the country decide to. Washington Post reports that it is possible that Iran may have conducted military-related nuclear activity since 2003, when it was estimated that it had stopped at the request of the international pressure.
The IAEA is said to give indication of a secret program conducted by Tehran, one that was far more organized and successful than the others.
On Sunday the Israeli President Shimon Peres said that Iran was the greatest enemy of Israel and that an attack against its nuclear facilities was increasingly likely to happen. However, the decision lies in the end with the American president Barack Obama, whose support on this is crucial for the future of the military campaign.
Right about now, the American president does not seem interested in attacking Iran and provoking a war, which would be the first during his term, but probably the worst since the war on terror was engaged.
The same thing feels about it France, whose foreign minister Alain Juppe said that an attack on Iran would destabilize the entire area for a long time. Iran has promised that if attacked it would retaliate by hitting Israeli and American targets all over the world. It is feared by the Israeli leaders that an attack on Iran would lead to a counterattack on Israel from Hezbollah and Hamas, and even by Syria itself.
On the other hand, Iran could make its Shiite militias in Iraq attack the outgoing American troops in here, while the Taliban could intensify their attacks on the American troops in Afghanistan.
Besides, an attack on Iran would have to be approved by the United Nations Security Council, which seems to be little disposed to sanction such an action, whose chances of success aren’t even high enough to make it worth.
