[THS] Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran

[Peter Webster]

Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:

Israel names Russians helping Iran build nuclear bomb:

Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has handed the Kremlin a list of Russian
scientists believed by the Israelis to be helping Iran to develop a nuclear warhead.
He is said to have delivered the list during a mysterious visit to Moscow.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6860161.ece

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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:

Report Says Iran Has Data to Make a Nuclear Bomb:

Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a
confidential analysis that Iran has acquired "sufficient information to be able to
design and produce a workable" atom bomb.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/world/middleeast/04nuke.html?_r=2

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ElBaradei: IAEA to inspect Iran's new uranium plant on Oct. 25:

ElBaradei made the remarks at a joint press conference in Tehran with Ali Akbar
Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/04/content_12180440.htm

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It was Uncle Sam who first gave Iran nuclear equipment:

The US sold the Shah of Iran's government a 5-megawatt, light-water type research
reactor. This small dome-shaped structure, located in the Tehran suburbs, was the
foundation of Iran's nuclear program. It remains at the center of the controversy
over Iranian intentions, even today.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1002/p04s01-usfp.html

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US 'silent on Israeli nuclear arms':

Barack Obama, the US president, has agreed to abide by a 40-year policy of allowing
Israel to keep nuclear weapons without opening them to international inspection,
according to a US newspaper.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/10/2009103125440407949.html