Elbaradei Flip-Flop? Iran Can Have Nuclear Weapon In 6 Months
What the F***? This story is from June 24, the day before we first told you about this. What is it Elbaradei? an they make them or not?
IAEA Chief: Iran Could Make Nuke In 6 Months
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CBS) ― The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Iran could create a nuclear weapon in six months.
IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei spoke on Al-Arabiya television on June 20, discussing Iran’s nuclear program, and the potential for the Middle Eastern country to produce a nuclear weapon.
“If Iran wants to turn to the production of nuclear weapons, it must leave the NPT, expel the IAEA inspectors, and then it would need at least, considering the number of centrifuges and the quantity of uranium Iran has…It would need at least six months to one year,” ElBaradei said.
“Therefore, Iran will not be able to reach the point where we would wake up one morning to an Iran with a nuclear weapon,” he said.
His interviewer then asked “If Iran decides today to expel the IAEA from the country, it will need six months to produce [nuclear] weapons?”
The IAEA chief answered, “It would need this period to produce a weapon, and to obtain highly-enriched uranium in sufficient quantities for a single nuclear weapon.”
The ElBaradei interview was conducted one day after reports emerged of a large-scale military exercise by Israel.
U.S. officials said they thought the Israeli exercises were meant to warn Iran of Israel’s abilities to hit its nuclear sites.
ElBaradei also warned that he will resign as chief of the UN nuclear agency if Iran is attacked by any country.
“I always think of resigning in the event of a military strike…If military force is used, I would conclude that there is no mechanism left for me to defend,” he said.
“The reports this week of Israeli military maneuvers, which took place in early June, provoked the IAEA warning,” said CBS News Foreign Affairs Pamela Falk, who is based at the U.N., “because atomic energy chief ElBaradei has been pleading with Iran to accept a new package of incentives before another round of sanctions would be imposed.”
“The problem in the region is that, as time passes and the clock is ticking on Iran’s uranium enrichment program, there is a fear that Israel will act, as it did in Syria last year, to attack at least one of Iran’s nuclear facilities,” said Falk, who was in Saudi Arabia earlier this week.
“Israel is evidently the most threatened by the last IAEA report, which concluded that there are unanswered questions about Iran’s ability to eventually develop nuclear weapons,” said Falk, “so it is elBaradei himself who produced the report that is making Israel nervous.”
Meanwhile, Iran is reiterating its decision to continue enriching uranium, calling Western pressure to suspend the work “illogical.”
The statement by a government spokesman came as Europe waits for Iran’s formal answer to an international package of incentives designed to rein in its nuclear program.
Iran’s official IRNA news agency quoted Iranian spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham on Saturday as saying that his country will respond to the package at a convenient time.
The package would give Tehran economic incentives, and the chance to develop alternate light-water reactors, in return for dropping the uranium enrichment.
(© 2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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here is the fact. nobody except the Iranians knows how far along they are. every day these different agencies say one thing and then change their mind and say something else the other, it wouldnt be a stretch to come to the conclusion that nobody knows for sure.
we need to strike these bastards now and get it over with. unless we want to be held hostage by a nuclear armed death cult regime
June 26th, 2008 at 3:41 pmSTFU Baghdad Bob. Go on back to your hilal life in jihadistan somewhere. Come back when you get a brain.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:00 pmThis man is worthless as head of the IAEA. We are wasting our money on his salary. Theri is no more time left to wait. Bomb Iran now or face the consequences of a nuclear Iran telling us what to do. Gas at 10.00 a gallon is better than radioactive fall out any day… Wake up America and Prepare….
June 26th, 2008 at 4:25 pm“ElBaradei also warned that he will resign as chief of the UN nuclear agency if Iran is attacked by any country.”
Well, that statement alone is enough of a reason that we should attack Iran immediately.
June 26th, 2008 at 6:33 pm“If Iran wants to turn to the production of nuclear weapons, it must leave the NPT, expel the IAEA inspectors …”
This man is an idiot. Does he think that being a signatory to the NPT is somehow going to magically prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons?
June 26th, 2008 at 7:21 pmI think it’s about time to smack Iran down. Enough is enough. They are threatening and posturing, it’s time we drop a couple thousand tons of bombs on their ass. You’d think they’d learn their lesson after we put Saddam at the end of a rope. It’s time to quit horsing around until they build a few nuclear weapons and drop one on Israel. I say we roll into Iran and turn it into a parking lot. I’m sick and damn tired of listening to the bullshit coming out of there. Crushing them now would teach the rest of the region a good lesson.
Notice that North Korea is imploding their nuclear tower. Why do you think that’s happening? Because they’re scared shitless that they’ll end up like Iraq. These radicals cannot be negotiated with, I say we smack ‘em now before it’s too late, before we have some dipshit like Obama in there and we end up the laughing stock of the world like we did when Carter was in office. Drop the hammer, now.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:31 pmThere are some things which shouldn’t be discussed in open forum but I will say this, ElBaradei’s picture should appear as part of playing-card high suit and a new deck of cards - covertly if we don’t have the ball’s to be honest.
The SoB made an open admission that the Mullah’s have everything they need to produce nukes–possibly less the HEU and even there he’s not too sure–which means they are outside the NPT, period. A fact which ElBaradie will probably own-up-to after we‘ve a new President, McCain or Obummer.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:45 amAmerica needs to shut down the UN, run the fools out of our country and level Iran and Syria Now.
The fools that reside in the Middle East will be the one standing up for jihad in America.
June 27th, 2008 at 4:42 am