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"World War Three 2003" |
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05 Aug 2003 10:19:42 PM |
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World War III ***NEWS*** Wednesday, August 6, 2003.....+ |
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Intelligence officer: Iran could have nuclear weapons by 2005
Iran will soon complete its program for achieving a
basic ability to create nuclear weapons that will
be operational by 2005, Israel Radio quoted a
senior military intelligence officer as telling
the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
on Monday.
The Los Angeles Times reported
Monday that Iran appears to be
in the late stages of building
a nuclear bomb and has sought
help from scientists in Russia,
China, North Korea and
Pakistan.
Shimon Briarsky, a former
intelligence official in charge
of Iranian affairs, urged the United States to
exert "massive" diplomatic pressure on Iran to
stop it from developing a nuclear bomb.
The U.S. has "a window of a year and a half, two
years," Briarsky told Army Radio on Monday.
"Not for military action, for diplomatic action
that would start with diplomatic pressure and
continue with involving the [United Nations]
Security Council - massive pressure on the
Iranians to destroy and neutralize what they
have attained."
Citing its own three-month investigation into
Iran's clandestine nuclear capacity, the Times
said it had strong evidence Iran's commercial
program masked a plan to become the world's
next nuclear power and it was "much closer to
producing a bomb than Iraq ever was."
Iran has consistently denied it has plans to
build nuclear weapons and has said its program
is for peaceful civilian use.
The Times, in the story from Vienna, said it was
unclear when Iran might produce its first
atomic weapons. Some experts thought two to
three years was likely while others believed
the Iranian government had probably not given a
final go-ahead.
In Vienna, a spokesman for the International
Atomic Energy Agency declined to comment on the
story. "We do not comment on media reports,"
spokesman Lothar Wedekind told Reuters.
The story cited a confidential report by the
French government in May it said concluded Iran
was "surprisingly close" to having enriched
uranium or plutonium for a bomb.
Reuters last month reported that UN nuclear
inspectors found traces of enriched uranium in
environmental samples taken during recent
inspections in Iran.
Foreign intelligence officials told the Times
the CIA had briefed them on a contingency plan
for U.S. air and missile attacks against
Iranian nuclear installations.
"It would be foolish not to present the
commander in chief with all of the options,
including that one," one of the officials was
quoted as saying. The CIA declined comment on
such a plan to the paper.
The newspaper said North Korean military
scientists were recently monitored entering
Iranian nuclear facilities and were assisting
in the design of a nuclear warhead.
A Middle Eastern intelligence official was also
quoted as saying Pakistan's role in helping
Iran develop a nuclear program was "bigger from
the beginning than we thought."
Russian scientists, sometimes traveling to Iran
under false identities and working without
their government's approval, were also helping
to complete a special reactor that could
produce weapons-grade plutonium, the paper
said.
Tehran has also imported 1.8 tons of nuclear
material from China in 1991 and processed some
of it to manufacture uranium metal, the report
said.
Another indicator Iran was in the late stages of
weapons development was the fact that Tehran
recently approached European companies to buy
devices that could manipulate large volumes of
radio-active material, technology to forge
uranium metal and plutonium and switches that
could trigger a nuclear weapon.
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