Can the CIA sabotage Iran's nuclear project?

[FarCenter]

A man walks across the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at the lobby of the CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia. The reported defection of an Iranian scientist to the United States has renewed speculation about a CIA plot to sabotage Iran's nuclear program through covert action. AFP - The reported defection of an Iranian scientist to the United States has renewed speculation about a CIA plot to sabotage Iran's nuclear program through covert action.

But it remains unclear whether Shahram Amiri, the young physics researcher who reportedly joined forces with the US spy agency, represents an intelligence coup for Washington or a minor setback for Tehran, former CIA officers said.

ABC television reported that Amiri, who went missing without explanation in Saudi Arabia last year, had defected and resettled in the United States in cooperation with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Amiri, in his thirties, worked at Tehran's Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, part of a network of research centers with close ties to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards and the country's weapons industry.

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Amiri could be a gold mine, offering a trove of information about the nuclear program, which US and European governments insist is a cover for a clandestine nuclear weapons project.

"The other alternative is we're so desperate to gain information on the Iranian nuclear program that we'll take anything we can get," Riedel said.

"I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case."

http://www.france24.com/en/20100404-can-cia-sabotage-irans-nuclear-project

[WarKillsChildren]

1. Can the CIA sabotage Iran's nuclear project?

For the sake of humanity I hope so.

[Yeahyeah]

2. He's probably a janitor/bullshitter who wants to live in the USA so he can

meet girls with "big American breasts".

[pocoloco]

3. Why would they want to???

They would have to find another reason to start a war.

[demosincebirth]

4. Not every move the U.S. makes is to start a war. jeez!

[MadHound]

5. Given the track record over the past decade, you could have fooled me.

Given the saber rattling around the Obama WH, it wouldn't surprise me either.

[demosincebirth]

6. Can't argue with a genius like you. nt

[alfredo]

7. Let em have their bomb.

They can't use it because if they did, it would be a death sentence for Iran. A hard rain would fall on them.