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Arash
November 15, 2003
Israeli paranoia on Iran 'nukes'
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Dr. James Gordon Prather
Nuclear weapons physicist
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The Israelis failed to intimidate the Russians and the European Union with
threats of what the Israelis would do if "appropriate actions" were not
taken against the Iranian nuke program - a program the International Atomic
Energy Agency says doesn't exist.
So, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz met this week with Secretary of
State Powell, Vice President Cheney and National Security Adviser Rice, and
afterwards held a press conference.
Quoth Shaul: "Concentrated efforts are needed to delay, to stop or to
prevent the Iranian nuclear program. I hope that you understand what I
said."
Do you understand?
If you don't, it may be because you're too young to remember what the
Israelis did just over 20 years ago.
Iraq was soon to begin operating Osiraq - a French-supplied 40 megawatt
research reactor.
Since almost 28 pounds of highly enriched uranium had also been supplied by
France for use as reactor fuel, Osiraq and all related facilities and
operations were made subject to IAEA safeguards.
Bear in mind that it would take at least 120 pounds of weapons-grade HEU to
make even one gun-type [Hiroshima] nuke.
Nevertheless, the Israelis claimed to have learned from "sources of
unquestioned reliability" that Iraq was producing nukes at the Osiraq site.
So, the Israelis persuaded the Iranians - who were at war with Iraq at the
time - to bomb Osiraq,
But, the Iranian raid was only partially successful. So, on June 7, 1981,
Israel launched its own pre-emptive strike, totally destroying Osiraq.
The entire civilized world was outraged.
The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned the military attack
by Israel, which it considered to be "in clear violation of the Charter of
the United Nations and the norms of international conduct." The attack was
also "a serious threat to the entire safeguards regime of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, which is the foundation of the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons."
And, of course, the Security Council was right. Israel was not a party to
the NPT, but Iraq was. Furthermore, Iraq was in full compliance with its
Safeguards Agreement. IAEA inspectors - on the scene, before and after the
attack - insisted that the Iraqis did not then have a nuke program.
We now know that the Israeli "sources of unquestioned reliability" were
wrong - and the IAEA was right - about Iraq nuke programs not only at the
time the Israelis bombed Osiraq (1981), but also when Clinton bombed Baghdad
(1998), and when Bush invaded Iraq (2003).
As for Iran - also a party to the NPT - here are excerpts from a paper
written in the aftermath of the Gulf War by nuclear fuel-cycle expert David
Albright:
U.S. officials say they have clear indications that Iran wants nuclear
weapons. But so far, the U.S. government has failed to identify any
clandestine facilities in Iran that might be part of a secret
nuclear-weapons program.
U.S. officials say that many Iranian nuclear scientists who left after the
Shah was overthrown are returning to the country. Some of them are
interested in working on uranium enrichment, others on chemically
reprocessing irradiated nuclear fuel to obtain plutonium - both potential
routes to bomb material.
Iran has many "hot cells" usable for separating plutonium from irradiated
fuel. These were provided by the United States in the 1960s, when it
supplied a five-megawatt research reactor to Iran.
One official said Iran is working on laser uranium enrichment - a program
also begun under the Shah. But this technology has not progressed far in the
West, and the official said he was "not very concerned" about that aspect of
Iran's research.
Iran has been under a virtual embargo on nuclear technology since the
1980s, when the United States urged Germany and France not to restart
nuclear cooperation with Tehran until "satisfactory reassurances about
Iran's nonproliferation credentials are forthcoming."
If Iran's new ambitions are really peaceful, some Western officials have
said, they might end their embargo on power reactor technology - after Iran
agrees to let the IAEA come in and take a good look around.
Well, Albright wrote that in 1992. Iran now has invited the IAEA to come
take a good look around, and it is their confidential report on what they
found - and didn't find - that is the cause of current Israeli sound and
fury.
The IAEA didn't find any "indications" of an Iranian nuke program.
So, what do you think the odds are that the IAEA is wrong about Iran and
that the Israelis are right - for a change?
* Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing
official for national security-related technical matters in the Federal
Energy Agency, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the
Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the
Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as legislative assistant for
national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-Okla. -- ranking
member of the Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate Energy
Committee and Appropriations Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a
nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
California and Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico.
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