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Military Strikes to Speed-up Iran's Nuclear Weapons: Report.....6/3/7 |
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2007/03/06/top4.htm
Military Strikes to Speed-up Iran's Nuclear Weapons: Report
By Raza Mumtaz 'Pakistan Times' Executive Editor/UK Bureau Chief
LONDON (UK): Military strikes against Iran could speed Tehran's
development of nuclear weapons, according to a UK think tank.
A report by the Oxford Research Group says military action could lead
Iran to change the nature of its programme and quickly build a few
nuclear arms.
Iran has time and again denied Western claims it is trying to build
weapons, saying its nuclear programme is entire peaceful.
The study comes as the UN nuclear watchdog is set to discuss the
nuclear programmes of Iran and North Korea.
In February, Iran ignored a deadline set by the UN Security Council to
stop enriching uranium.
A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran
was instead expanding the programme.
Far from setting back Iran's nuclear programme , a military attack
might create the political conditions in which Iran could accelerate
its nuclear weapons programme
Enriched uranium is used as fuel for nuclear reactors, but highly
enriched uranium can be used to make nuclear bombs.
Western powers have threatened to expand sanctions on Iran. These
could include travel bans on Iranian officials associated with nuclear
and missile programmes.
The US has not ruled out using force but says it wants to give
diplomacy a chance.
The Oxford Research Group report is written by nuclear scientist and
arms expert Frank Barnaby.
"If Iran is moving towards a nuclear weapons capacity it is doing so
relatively slowly, most estimates put it at least five years away," he
says.
Barnaby adds that an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities "would
almost certainly lead to a fast-track programme to develop a small
number of nuclear devices as quickly as possible".
He says it "would be a bit like deciding to build a car from spare
parts instead of building the entire car factory".
El-Baradei's Viewpoint
Meanwhile, a report from Vienna says that the chief U.N. nuclear
inspector said Monday his agency cannot guarantee that Iran's nuclear
program is peaceful despite four years of investigations and that
doubts will persist until Tehran decides to cooperate with his
experts.
Mohamed El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency,
spoke as board member nations of the IAEA gathered for a session on
approving the suspension of dozens of technical aid programs to Iran
as part of Security Council sanctions meant to punish Tehran for its
nuclear defiance.
Although the issue is not expected to come up until Tuesday at the
earliest, the focus of the International Atomic Energy Agency's35-
nation board meeting will be on Iran's refusal to suspend uranium
enrichment activities and linked problems.
Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, Iran's chief delegate to the IAEA, said again
his country would =E2=80=9Cnever give up its inalienable right'' to develop
enrichment, which Tehran says it wants to develop to generate power
but which also can produce the fissile material for nuclear warheads.
ElBaradei, whose agency has spent more than four years probing the
nature of Tehran's nuclear activities, said the IAEA remains =E2=80=9Cunable
to provide the required assurance about the peaceful natureof Iran's
nuclear program.''=E2=97=8F
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