Latest Prophecy Commentary
Iran
on track for nuclear milestone...; Pressure
grows on Israel's Olmert
A ranking International Atomic Energy Agency official called Teheran's
possession of a drawing showing how to make part of an atomic warhead
"alarming" Thursday and said the onus is on Iran to prove it had not
tried to develop nuclear arms, said diplomats attending a closed briefing.
The US said the evidence detailed by IAEA Deputy Director General Olli Heinonen increased concerns that Teheran had tried to make such weapons. "Today's briefing showed ... strong reasons to suspect that Iran was working covertly and deceitfully at least until recently to build a bomb," Gregory L. Schulte, the chief US delegate to the agency, told reporters. Jerusalem Post
Iran’s nuclear programme has made big strides in recent months and the country is on course to pass an important threshold for nuclear weapons capability next year, scientists and analysts say.
Ever since Iran started enriching uranium in defiance of United Nations resolutions, western diplomats have highlighted the technological obstacles facing the country, arguing that they provided time to deal with the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
But several leading experts say that Iran is now twice as effective in enriching uranium than before, based on a report this week by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog.
They add that during the course of next year Iran is likely to have built up a stockpile of enriched uranium that in theory could be turned into enough fissile material for a bomb in a matter of months. FT.com
The election of a rival to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as speaker of the Iranian Parliament is a strong signal of growing impatience with the president's economic policies and a possible sign of a political shift in the country.
The new speaker, Ali Larijani, who resigned as the country's nuclear negotiator in October over differences with Ahmadinejad, is a conservative and an ardent advocate of the Iranian nuclear program but is seen as more pragmatic in his approach and perhaps willing to engage in diplomacy with the West.
The post of speaker is normally a powerful one in Iranian politics, and Larijani's elevation also suggests that the new Parliament will be much more likely than the last one to challenge Ahmadinejad, who is up for re-election in June 2009. Herald Tribune
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