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Iran Calls U.N. A Liar

J.J. Jackson* | February 27, 2008 

The story of Iran’s nuclear weapons program sure is interesting to follow. First you have the United States and other nations saying they have such a program. Then you had Iran deny it. Then you had U.S. intelligence agencies claim that they ended such a program by 2003. Then you have Iran claim a great victory because of this report. You had American intelligence officials backpeddle a little.  Now you have the United Nations (I repeat THE UNITED NATIONS) saying, “Not so fast,” and producing documents to the contrary of Iran’s claim!

VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency presented documents Monday that diplomats said indicate Iran may have focused on a nuclear weapons program after 2003 — the year that a U.S. intelligence report says such work stopped.Iran again denied ever trying to make such arms. Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency, dismissed the information showcased by the body as “forgeries.”

He and other diplomats, all linked to the IAEA, commented after a closed-door presentation to the agency’s 35-nation board of intelligence findings from the U.S. and its allies and other information purporting to show Iranian attempts to make nuclear arms.

Well, this certainly isn’t very good for people that want to believe that Iran is a land of chocolate rivers and gumdrop trees where dogs and cats lie together in harmony and everything would be ok if not for the evil U.S. harassing them. Did I mention that this was the United Nations making these claims? Not that I think the United Nations is generally competent mind you but how is it that IF it was so clear that Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons isn’t everyone on the same page here?

And who is right? Because someone has to be wrong. I hate to think that our intelligence (as in the United States) is wrong because that doesn’t bode well for our security if the United Nations can get it right but we can’t.

I have a strange suspicion that someone in this mess is probably playing politics here. We’ve already had U.S. intelligence back away from it’s own NIE somewhat and I just can’t see what the U.N. would gain by being the one to play politics.

If it turns out that someone (or someones) in the U.S. government skewed the NIE for their own ideological benefit I’d say very seriously that I would consider it treason. And I wouldn’t put such a thing past the career bureaucrats in Washington.

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