Comments on: DNI on Iran Nuclear Estimate https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/09/18/dni-on-iran-nuclear-estimate/ Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:39:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: hass https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/09/18/dni-on-iran-nuclear-estimate/#comment-326 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:39:50 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/dni-on-iran-nuclear-estimate/#comment-326 t any country theoretically obtain the capability to build a bomb in 5-10 years?</p> <p>As for the Additional Protocol, remember the Iranian experience: they implemented it for 2.5 years, and in return the goal posts were then moved again and the EU demanded that Iran abandon enrichment entirely. </p> <p>In fact, there’s good reason to assume that nothing Iran does will satisfy the NeoCons who are using the nuclear issue as a pretext for regime change.</p> <p>“In 2000, an America[n] said in our presence at<br />Columbia University that they would continue to<br />pressure Iran even if Iran signed the protocol 100 <br />times, unless they reach a political agreement with<br />us. He said, jokingly, that that day they would give<br />two of the latest models their nuclear reactors to<br />Iran. Therefore, even if sign the Additional Protocol<br />and resolve our problems with the agency, America will<br />continue to exert political pressure on us."<br />SOURCE<br />Envoy to IAEA says Iran enriching uranium, takes<br />“positive view" of NPT.27 July 2003 BBC Monitoring Middle East English</p>]]> Can’t any country theoretically obtain the capability to build a bomb in 5-10 years?

As for the Additional Protocol, remember the Iranian experience: they implemented it for 2.5 years, and in return the goal posts were then moved again and the EU demanded that Iran abandon enrichment entirely.

In fact, there’s good reason to assume that nothing Iran does will satisfy the NeoCons who are using the nuclear issue as a pretext for regime change.

“In 2000, an America[n] said in our presence at
Columbia University that they would continue to
pressure Iran even if Iran signed the protocol 100
times, unless they reach a political agreement with
us. He said, jokingly, that that day they would give
two of the latest models their nuclear reactors to
Iran. Therefore, even if sign the Additional Protocol
and resolve our problems with the agency, America will
continue to exert political pressure on us.”
SOURCE
Envoy to IAEA says Iran enriching uranium, takes
“positive view” of NPT.27 July 2003 BBC Monitoring Middle East English

]]> By: abcd https://totalwonkerr.net/2006/09/18/dni-on-iran-nuclear-estimate/#comment-325 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:58:52 +0000 http://www.totalwonkerr.net/dni-on-iran-nuclear-estimate/#comment-325 Just curious, what are significant factors driving assessments of when any given country should reach the capacity to churn out nukes? Is this taking into account possible outside assistance? Is it excluding the need to miniaturize the explosion into a cone? And why would the Israelis have such a vastly different assessment than the US, even given a hawkish US administration?

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