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What else is Iran hiding?
2015-03-31
By Ali Alfoneh and Reuel Marc Gerecht
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[WashingtonPost] The unfinished North Korean-designed reactor that was destroyed by Israeli planes on Sept. 6, 2007, at Deir al-Zour in Syria was in all likelihood an Iranian project, perhaps one meant to serve as a backup site for Iran’s own nuclear plants. We draw this conclusion because of the timing and the close connection between the two regimes: Deir al-Zour was started around the time Iran’s nuclear facilities were disclosed by an Iranian opposition group in 2002, and the relationship between Shiite-ruled Syria and Shiite Iran has been exceptionally tight since Bashar al-Assad came to power in 2000. We also know — because Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former Iranian president and majordomo of the political clergy, proudly tells us in his multivolume autobiography — that sensitive Iranian-North Korean military cooperation began in 1989. Rafsanjani’s commentary leaves little doubt that the Iranian-North Korean nexus revolved around two items: ballistic missiles and nuclear-weapons technology.

In his memoirs, the bulk of which is composed of journal entries, Rafsanjani openly discusses Iran’s arms and missile procurement from North Korea. However, from 1989 forward, his entries on Pyongyang become more opaque — a change, we believe, indicating emerging nuclear cooperation. By 1991, Rafsanjani discusses “special and sensitive issues” related to North Korea in entries that are notably different from his candid commentary on tactical ballistic missiles. Rafsanjani mentions summoning Majid Abbaspour, who was the president’s technical adviser on “chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear industries,” into the discussions. Rafsanjani expresses his interest in importing a “special commodity” from the North Koreans in return for oil shipments to Pyongyang. He insists that Iran gain unspecified “technical know-how.”
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Read a few days ago that Iran is building nuclear bombs in N Korea, in exchange for a couple of billion $.
Posted by: phil_b   2015-03-31 20:55  

#3  What are they hiding? Everything is fair game with the kafir or non-believers. So why are we negotiating with someone whose religion gives them license to lie to you? You are going to get rolled every time.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-31 16:52  

#2  I don't know why Obama, Kerry and the P5+1 powers are even negotiating with the MMs of Iran. They are theology-driven maniacs who still preach "Death to America" and "destroying Israel is non-negotiable." Negotiations are based on the assumption the big turbans are rational by Western standards.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-31 10:45  

#1  What Iran is hiding is a well organized plan to develop it's capacity for multiple nuclear strikes agains Israel first and Europe and the USA afterwards on it's way to become a middle east superpower.
What Obama fails to realize is that while Iran looks Like a "GREAT PARTNER" to the new US plan of fighting the Sunny radicals like ISIS without involving American soldiers on the ground, after they dominate Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon in a pincer-like maneuver it will turn around and byte the American hand that made it a nuclear state ( remember Al Kaida who was befriended by the US as a pawn in the war against the soviet empire?).
Obama's plan to eject Israel and Its current Sunny Arab allies to be replaced by the "trusty" Shiite Ayatollahs is doomed to fail because of it's short-sightedness.
Moreover, Once Israel is fully surrounded by Iran's supported terrorist regimes, and with no US support, I believe Israel will be forced to use it's nuclear arsenal sooner or later.
Does Kerry sleep well at night ?
I don't....
Posted by: Elder iof Zion   2015-03-31 06:15