Uh Oh
Trouble in paradise. Alleged ‘03 shutdown followed by alleged ‘04 startup. WSJ:
The Iranian opposition group that first exposed Iran’s nuclear-fuel program said a U.S. intelligence analysis is correct that Tehran shut down its weaponization program in 2003, but claims that the program was relocated and restarted in 2004.
The claim, to be made public today by the National Council for Resistance in Iran, joins a broad pushback by conservative hawks who say the U.S. analysis has wrongly given the impression that Iran’s nuclear-fuel program doesn’t present an urgent threat.
h/t MVDG’s new venture, Poligazette, which notes:
Fox News adds that the NCRI “has had a mixed record of accuracy with its claims about Iran’s nuclear ambitions in the past” and that it’s considered to be a terrorist organization by both the United States and the European Union.
In other words, they’re not exactly the most reliable of sources.
Well, it’s not like the United States intelligence community is the most reliable of sources, either.
Mohammad Mohaddessin, NCRI’s foreign affairs chief, told the Wall Street Journal: “They scattered the weaponization program to other locations and restarted in 2004. Their strategy was that if the IAEA found any one piece of this research program, it would be possible to justify it as civilian. But so long as it was all together, they wouldn’t be able to.”
Iranian deception, a shocking notion. The unfortunate thing about all of this is that, amid clear patterns of deception from a nation that is actively engaged in the support of terrorism and regional destabilization, we risk being immobilized by a debate over whether we are being deceived or not.
Welcome, Pajamas, Salon, etal. So what do you think … post-war election? Hold your breath, it’s a waterboarding party. That’s history but we’re still waiting on justice for Bilal. You know all about who’s as black as Barack and gets more, right? Walk a mile in my cousin’s burkha.
Topics: Iran
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:27 am on Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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December 11th, 2007 at 10:29 am
[...] Crittenden reacts: “Well, it’s not like the United States intelligence community is the most reliable of [...]
December 11th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
…amid clear patterns of deception from a nation that is actively engaged in the support of terrorism and regional destabilization, we risk being immobilized by a debate over whether we are being deceived or not.
In other words, business as usual in the State Department.
December 11th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Rebecca, the problem is that it isn’t just State that lives in some parallel universe where the enemy is sanctioned as an honest partner in negotiations. They have had ample, and active, support from other crucial war-time bureaucracies. The argument we’ve seen between the antis and the actual realists, is but a weak copy of the much more serious–and dangerous–battle going on within the centers of power in our government.