A bad case of nuclear Iranophobia

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By Pepe Escobar

As the climax to a leaking frenzy in Western corporate media that bordered on - literally - nuclear hysteria, United Nations inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) finally released a report essentially charging that Tehran had tried to design a nuclear weapon to fit in a missile warhead until as late as last year.

According to the report, Iran worked "on the development of an indigenous design of a nuclear weapon including the testing of components".

Besides the effort to redesign and miniaturize a Pakistani nuclear weapon, Tehran is also accused of trying to develop a covert
operation to enrich uranium - the "green salt project" - that could be used "in an undisclosed enrichment program".



All this leads the IAEA to express "serious concerns" about research and development "specific to nuclear weapons".


in full: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MK10Ak02.html

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1. WMD. March 20, 2003.

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2. the usual hypocrisy... what about Israel's nukes?...

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3. Not all nukes are created equal.

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