Iran nuclear weapons "years away" (BBC News)

[Up2Late]

(Apparently, this is a NEW report that the WH will either ignore or dismiss)

Iran nuclear weapons 'years away'

By Jonathan Marcus
BBC diplomatic correspondent

Iran is still several years away from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, according to a study published by an influential London-based think tank.

Tuesday, 6 September 2005, 01:13 GMT 02:13 UK

The International Institute for Strategic Studies has assessed Iran's nuclear, chemical, biological and long-range missile activities. It says a diplomatic showdown with the European Union and the United States could be inevitable.

Iran's political restraint thus far may not last, the report's authors say. "Iran's Strategic Weapons Programmes - A Net Assessment" is a study of Iran's strategic weapons capability.

While it charts the political history and progress of Iran's nuclear programmes since its origins under the Shah in the late 1950s, it does not seek to provide an assessment of Iran's political intentions. What matters to arms control experts is how far advanced Iran is in its quest to be able to produce and enrich uranium.

Iran, of course, says its wants this capability to provide fuel for power-generating reactors. But the self-same technology could also provide the fissile material for a bomb.

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4217824.stm>
(more at link above)

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Well yeah, but we can't wait that long to:

1. stop them from trading oil in euros instead of dollars, further worsening our financial wellbeing (bwahahahahahaha!)
2. steal their oil
3. make them a puppet state like Iraq
4. do it "right" before something else happens

[drduffy]

2. you might add....

and bring more 'democracy' to the region

I say death to Imperial America.....

Long Live America and the Republic for which it is supposed to stand.