Western experts to Haaretz: Iran able to build nuclear bomb within months

[The Straight Story]

Western experts to Haaretz: Iran able to build nuclear bomb within months
Experts conclude nuclear weapons engineers from Russia, Pakistan and North Korea have been assisting Iranian scientists in their efforts to reach nuclear capability.

Iran will be ready to build a nuclear bomb within a few months, if it desires, Western nuclear experts have told Haaretz. Other experts, who have seen intelligence used in the compilation of the latest International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran, have said that Tehran already has the know-how, the technological means and the materials needed to put an atom bomb together within short order.

These experts have concluded that nuclear weapons engineers from Russia, Pakistan and North Korea have been assisting Iranian scientists in their efforts to reach nuclear capability. Haaretz published similar information last week, reporting that experts have said that Iran could carry out underground nuclear tests quite soon if it wants to.

One key figure was Vyacheslav Danilenko, a former Soviet nuclear scientist who worked for at least five years for Iran's Physics Research Center, a facility linked to the country's nuclear program. The information about Danilenko's role in Iran's nuclear program was provided by David Albright, a former UN weapons inspector who is president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security. Some of this information was published on Monday in the Washington Post.

The IAEA report is slated for release on Monday or Tuesday. The director of the United Nations agency, Yukia Amano, has been under heavy pressure from Russia and China not to publish all of the evidence the IAEA has collated about Iran's nuclear program, in order to prevent an escalation of the crisis between the West and Iran. They suggested leaving the details fuzzy and not stating explicitly that Iran has reached nuclear capability.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/western-experts-to-haaretz-iran-able-to-build-nuclear-bomb-within-months-1.394255

[RoccoR5955]

1. Just more saber rattling

They want to go to war. It might even help the economy if we have to build more bombs and such.

[TheWraith]

2. Honestly, I don't trust Israeli media on this. Not even Haaretz. nt

[Lionessa]

3. Yeah, why do I get the impression this is about as reliable as "Iraq could have

as "Iraq could have nuclear weapons in 45 days."

[BOG PERSON]

4. "ready to build a nuclear bomb within a few months, if it desires"

that's a pretty big "if"

[Old and In the Way]

5. Gee, I thought the Stuxnet viral bomb set Iran back years in their

efforts to refine enough uranium into weapons grade material. Sure seems like the warmongers are going into overdrive on their messaging.

[madrchsod]

6. i could build one in my garage but....

i would`t know if it would work until i test it....iran has to test their`s too...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. Pakistan is more dangerous than Iran (it actually has them!)

and it has tested them.

[quinnox]

8. Wow, I'm becoming frightened

So if Iran goes nuclear it means immediate Armageddon for us all. I think I'm going to go hide under my desk now.

[Purveyor]

9. I have visions of 'mushroom clouds' within 45 minutes... eom