Then there’s the problem with the papers Iran did cough up. Last fall, after more than two years keeping the IAEA waiting, the Iranians finally produced two cardboard boxes full of papers which they allowed inspectors to examine only in an Iranian government office in Tehran. As the IAEA’s people read through the documents, they came across about 10 pages that looked suspicious, to say the least: general specifications for casting uranium metal in a spherical form that could well make up the core of an atomic bomb.
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Another item on the list: An Iranian nuclear research facility known as Lavizan was bulldozed after it was identified as a suspect site. The IAEA wants to take swabs known as “environmental samples” from the machinery that was there and talk to the technicians and scientists to determine just how far the research went. Thus far, Tehran has kept both the machines and the staff out of agency hands.
Finally, there’s the question of missile design. Starting in 2004, the CIA conducted a road show presenting what it said were the contents of a laptop computer stolen from Iran. Hundreds of pages were presented to the top officials at the IAEA, focusing on what appeared to be designs for missiles specifically meant to carry nuclear warheads. The IAEA is looking for explanations and elucidations from Iran about that laptop and its contents, and it’s not satisfied with what it’s heard so far.
So, what's this writers grand plan to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons?
If Iran doesn’t deliver, and it almost certainly will not, then the world should move ahead toward tough, targeted, effective sanctions.
Yeah, just look at how well that worked out with Saddam.
We're delaying the inevitable while Iran builds nukes.
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