UN's IAEA Blasts House Report on Iran's Nuclear Aims as "Dishonest"

[flpoljunkie]

(But why put this very important story on page A17?)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091302052.html

U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel Paper on Nuclear Aims Called Dishonest

By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, September 14, 2006; Page A17

U.N. inspectors investigating Iran's nuclear program angrily complained to the Bush administration and to a Republican congressman yesterday about a recent House committee report on Iran's capabilities, calling parts of the document "outrageous and dishonest" and offering evidence to refute its central claims.

Officials of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency said in a letter that the report contained some "erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated statements."The letter, signed by a senior director at the agency, was addressed to Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), chairman of the House intelligence committee, which issued the report. A copy was hand-delivered to Gregory L. Schulte, the U.S. ambassador to the IAEA in Vienna.

<>Yesterday's letter, a copy of which was provided to The Washington Post, was the first time the IAEA has publicly disputed U.S. allegations about its Iran investigation. The agency noted five major errors in the committee's 29-page report, which said Iran's nuclear capabilities are more advanced than either the IAEA or U.S. intelligence has shown.

Among the committee's assertions is that Iran is producing weapons-grade uranium at its facility in the town of Natanz. The IAEA called that "incorrect," noting that weapons-grade uranium is enriched to a level of 90 percent or more. Iran has enriched uranium to 3.5 percent under IAEA monitoring.

<>"This is like prewar Iraq all over again," said David Albright, a former nuclear inspector who is president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security. "You have an Iranian nuclear threat that is spun up, using bad information that's cherry-picked and a report that trashes the inspectors.

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[acmejack]

1. A-17? Wouldn't want anyone to know Congress was lying to us!

Now would they? Might interfere with opening the next front in the war on "terror".

[FearofFutility]

2. It's deja vu all over again n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. Over half a Trillion$$ spent - thousands of young American lives lost

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For WHAT exactly?

Oh

I furgot

It's just them PNACers doing their global conquest thing.

100,000 or more dead innocent Iraqis ain't murder or genocide -

It's just "collateral damage".

The Depleted Uranium the US is spreading around the ME will guarantee death for millions long after the PNACers are dead and gone . .

"Mission Accomplished"

[malaise]

4. This is big news

Kick. More lies, more spin hoping for more war.

[flpoljunkie]

13. And yet, not a word on CNN. MSNBC, FOX reporting on this?

[Jack Bone]

5. Wow!!

and be sure to remind people that the IAEA were the guys right about Iraq's WMD!!

Kicked

[EST]

6. While my sympathies lie with the IAEA and strictly against

the liars and poseurs of the congenitally mendacious publiclown cabal, my understanding of enrichment was that weapons grade uranium is more like 3.7% and not the 90% indicated in the IAEA document.

I presume they are speaking of uranium hexafluoride and not some other product.

Although this particular quibble does not detract from the factual argument against the incompetent, illiterate and insular proponents of publiclown jihad, it does leave an opening for the criminal cabal to invalidate its opponents' resistance to distortion of the real world.

[flpoljunkie]

8. My understanding is that weapons grade uranium starts at 70%.

That is, it is conceivable to produce a weapon using uranium enriched to about 70%, but most often uranium is enriched to 90% for nuclear weapons.

Do you have a link for your assertion?

[EST]

14. Somehow, I was having a brain fart.

HEU is 85% or better and I knew that.
I suppose I am permitted to have a "senior moment" now and then. Sorry for the confusion.

[CoffeeCat]

7. Here we go again...

Same lies in the lead up to a war....different day.

We know what they're doing. They know that they're doing. The world, and the IAEA, knows
what they're doing.

This time--the world is responsible for stopping this. We all know how this is going to go
down if we remain silent and don't make a helluva lot of noise.

The entire international community, the IAEA and United States citizens need to scream from
the rafters about the lies our country is perpetrating on the world.

We allowed BushCo to run roughshod over all of us. Never again.

The IAEA needs to take this to the next level. I'd say--they need to come over here--on
United States turf--and confront these bastards in a press conference--and plead to the American
people to stop their government from horrendous acts that will have disastrous consequences.

MORE. NOISE. This can't happen AGAIN.

[peacetalksforall]

9. The question is - will Democrats run with this? Run with what?

The lies, distortions, and inaccuracies. THE LIES!

The answer is that the Republicans in the Democratic Party won't say anything and the Democrat leaders who never get heard on tv will protest. It's up to us again.

I think a new word needs to be created to describe the nerve and dishonesty of Republicans.

[Dhalgren]

10. This is what happens when you are ruled by fascists. You get

little Himmlers, like Bolton and Fleitz, who have no souls and will lie and murder for their godless agendas. These are criminals and traitors to the US and we should exact the punishment meted out to traitors...

[spanone]

11. New war same shit.

[lala_rawraw]

12. gee, now there is a surprise... you meen Fleitz woud lie?