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Aug 16, 2005, 6:29:52 AM8/16/05

AntiWar
August 16, 2005

More Media Lies About Iran

Dr. James Gordon Prather
Nuclear weapons physicist
Nuclear bomb tester at Lawrence Livermore
Technical director of nuclear bomb testings at Sandia
Chief scientist of the U.S. Army
U.S. Navy veteran

According to Reuters' Louis Charbonneau – a neo-crazy media sycophant if ever there
was one – those despicable Iranians "broke UN seals at a uranium processing plant"
last week.

According to Charbonneau, the International Atomic Energy Agency "put on the seals
after Tehran agreed with the European Union's biggest powers to halt all nuclear fuel
work last November to ease tensions after the IAEA found Iran had hidden
weapons-grade highly enriched uranium".

"Tehran defied EU warnings [that] it could now be referred to the UN Security
Council for possible sanctions for having kept its uranium enrichment work secret for
years – until it was found out in 2002 – breaking the nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty". http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=820033

Now, all of that "reporting" is – at best – misleading.

And deliberately so.

Reuters' Louis Charbonneau is deliberately misleading you about

(A) what the IAEA "found" back in 2002,
(B) why the IAEA seals were in place,
(C) what the Iranians did last week, and last – but most important –
(D) what constitutes a "breaking" of the NPT.

Bush-Cheney officials have repeatedly charged that the Iranians have broken the NPT
and that they are seeking to manufacture or "otherwise acquire" nuclear weapons.

But if the Iranians were breaking the NPT, who would be in the best position to know?
The Bush-Cheney officials who made similar charges about Iraq?

Neo-crazy media sycophants like Louis Charbonneau?

No. It does you no good to have a nuclear weapons program if you can't beg, borrow,
or steal the tens of kilograms of fissile material that are absolutely required to
make a nuke. So the NPT requires no-nuke states like Iran to subject all "source or
special fissionable materials" and all activities involving such materials to an IAEA
safeguards agreement.

The IAEA Statute (http://www.iaea.org/About/statute_text.html) – not the NPT –
provides a mechanism for ensuring "compliance with the undertaking against use [of
safeguarded materials and activities] in furtherance of any military purpose".

The IAEA Statute – not the NPT – requires the IAEA Board of Governors to report any
use "in furtherance of any military purpose" to all IAEA members, to the UN General
Assembly, and to the Security Council.

If, as Louis Charbonneau charges, IAEA inspectors had found "hidden weapons-grade
highly enriched uranium" in Iran, they would have been required to report that to the
Board, and the Board would have been required to report that to the Security Council.

But they didn't.

In fact, Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei has reported to the Board on numerous
occasions that IAEA inspectors have found no "indication" that Iran now has, ever
had, or intends to have a nuclear weapons program.

So what did the IAEA "find" back in 2002?

In the process of negotiating an additional protocol to the existing Iranian
safeguards agreement, Iran "VOLUNTARILY" told the IAEA back in 2002 that, as a result
of the United States forcing Russia to cancel the sale of a turnkey gas-centrifuge
plant – which the Iranians had an "INALIENABLE RIGHT" to acquire and operate under
the NPT – the Iranians had been attempting to construct gas centrifuges of similar
design.

Furthermore, once they had constructed several thousand and got them to work, they
planned to construct a uranium-enrichment pilot plant and, eventually, construct a
commercial scale uranium-enrichment plant at Natanz.

But contrary to Reuters' Louis Charbonneau and the neo-crazies, under the Iranian
safeguards agreement as it then existed, the Iranians were NOT obligated to tell the
IAEA about any of that activity until they began processing "source or special
nuclear materials" for introduction into those gas centrifuges.

So why were there IAEA "seals" on those uranium-conversion facilities? Well, the
Iranians had volunteered to suspend all such activities for the duration of the
EU-Iranian negotiations. Since the facilities were all already safeguarded, the IAEA
was "invited" to verify the suspension.

But the IAEA is NOT a party to the EU-Iranian talks.

So what could the Board possibly report to the Security Council? That the EU and Iran
hoped to conclude an agreement that "will provide objective guarantees" that "Iran's
nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes" and that it "will equally
provide firm guarantees" to Iran "on nuclear, technological, and economic cooperation
and firm commitments on security issues"?

That on March 23, Iran offered a package of "objective guarantees" to the EU that
included a voluntary "confinement" of Iran's nuclear programs? That the EU never
responded to the Iranian offer? That the EU never offered Iran "firm commitments on
security issues"?

That the Iranians decided to end their voluntary suspension of safeguarded activities
and had so informed the IAEA?

None of that is any of the IAEA's business. So why report it?

Dr. Prather's past radio interviews:
August 2, 2005
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-08-02-Charles-01.mp3
July 23, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather5.mp3
May 7, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather4.mp3
May 4, 2005
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-05-04-Charles-01.mp3
April 9, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather3.mp3
February 16, 2005 (Part 1)
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-02-16-Charles-04.mp3
February 16, 2005 (Part 2)
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-02-16-Charles-05.mp3
February 5, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather2.mp3
December 4, 2004
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather.mp3

* 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
(http://www.llnl.gov) in California and Sandia National Laboratory
(http://www.sandia.gov) in New Mexico. http://www.antiwar.com/prather

What The Neo-Crazies Knew
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6b45fabf57726a03?hl=en

EU vs. Iran - Who's Right?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/cbce70a3093360fb?hl=en

Iran should refer U.S. to Security Council for violating UNSCR-984
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d54ef8e41b971bf?hl=en

Castration of NPT - U.S. instantly tore up NPT for India, so why should Iran obey a
torn up agreement!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2c234f4a148cd298?hl=en

U.S. ripped NPT into pieces; Iran must withdraw from this annulled treaty
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fbf55e939908b2c2?hl=en

U.S. proliferation rhetoric and reality
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7d8c268ee51c07be?hl=en

Ambassador Bolton's Agenda
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1ca916601b7a7bc8?hl=en

Iran's INALIENABLE RIGHT to uranium enrichment
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/245f6081b4e3d019?hl=en

A Palliative for Neo-Crazy Lies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1b7968f98173938d?hl=en

Inalienable right without discrimination
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/5012a673328fa044?hl=en

U.S. doesn't want to disarm even though it promised to do so
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c0b86cad11cb9413?hl=en

UN Referral – Not
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bddc928154c8c96a?hl=en

What Iranian obligations? What breaches? America's lies, lies, lies...
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9535c4a90df98471?hl=en

Memo to slimy senators
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7065ffd57b51a959?hl=en

U.S. promised in 2000, to get rid of it's nukes!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1e23bafecdac9e82?hl=en

U.S. has violated Iran's NPT rights!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/02f1f48fafcac2b6?hl=en

Iran's diplomatic masterpiece
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f532352654efee1d?hl=en

Bush to sabotage NPT
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6386adef83860d3e?hl=en

West's repeated violations of "Article IV & I" against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0123ceb12dd47321?hl=en

Israel guns for Iran - Why?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2c0274540f3957b7?hl=en

U.S. wants definition of NPT 'noncompliance' changed!!!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2abab5a7b8bce4c5?hl=en

NTP for dummies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f317bb918ca244da?hl=en

CNN's Wolf Blitzer & David Albright: Jews global campaign against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/44fcd2a53218eb52?hl=en

The Real Threat From John Bolton
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/16fb61c3cca32703?hl=en

81-mm smoking rockets
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fb2c580ba00d79a6?hl=en

U.S. plans to destroy NPT
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/760abaff1d8ac7c2?hl=en

Nuts to Bush
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/de936f823b4dfb11?hl=en

Iran's logic proven correct to the entire World
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a5798de678dad2a9?hl=en

Sandbagging the NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group)
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/238000abe8fe032e?hl=en

What Noncompliance?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/32f537772749ecc2?hl=en

Sandbagging the EU
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bb437d1ee00ad1e9?hl=en

Bye-Bye, NPT
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/eb8e9f617d0e0867?hl=en

Jew tells Bush to lie about Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c96849f55f92353e?hl=en

Targeting Non-existent Nukes?
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e25e86754767e3ef?hl=en

Blindly Backing Israel Against Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ca49370dcc1f41a4?hl=en

Condi Desperate to Stop EU-China-Iran Chain Reaction
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/26e6a24b43339654?hl=en

The Impossible Dream in the State of the Union Address
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/74938ea7958d0764?hl=en

Targeting Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dbb46af7ff3f0b66?hl=en

Bay of Pigs part 2, CIA-Israeli-MEK
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/b58f2a1d8b2290ff?hl=en

Threatening Iran - despite the evidence
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ce6e09919da68cbb?hl=en

Virtual Nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c245e595ad17ae57?hl=en

Iran's having the capability to enrich uranium is not even tantamount to having the
capability to produce the essentially pure uranium-235 required to make a nuke
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/303c3ca53b67c0a7?hl=en

Dangerous Delusions About Iran
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/42c57f2ae0cdb3b0?hl=en

Thwarting the Neo-Crazies
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/66c79d721fd588d4?hl=en

Trashing the IAEA Again
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f8c610f6cc9e1fda?hl=en

U.S. keeps lying about Iran again & again
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e9f480b192bd425e?hl=en

Iran's Stealthy Nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e47cc87d2b268368?hl=en

Uranium-Enrichment Myths Busted
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f7ebc6f4bed9d13a?hl=en

Iran Plays by the Rules - No Fair!
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/25be300601cc8984?hl=en

Nuclear Bait and Switch
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a0dc80ca3b8e98f?hl=en

The myth of Iranian nukes
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bf78503a661673e9?hl=en

North Korea has what Iraq didn't
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/56f613221080276e?hl=en

Iran has absolute right to enrich uranium
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a8ac2dc599976ba?hl=en

Iran is in full compliance with NPT & IAEA
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/737b74e86ba897cb?hl=en