Blind Nuclear Watchdog Says Iran’s Getting Nukes
Charles Johnson
Thu May 24, 2007 at 9:24 am PDT • Views: 356
Chalk up another success for the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Atomic Energy Agency, as blind watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei says Iran is going to have the bomb in, oh, maybe three to eight years. Somewhere in that vicinity.
He’s apparently basing this estimate on a gut feeling, and he doubts they’re really trying to get nuclear weapons anyway.
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Iran is probably three to eight years away from producing a nuclear bomb if it so chooses, the head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday.
Underlining what he said was the growing risk of a major confrontation between the West and Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei appealed for the two sides to restart negotiations on a compromise as soon as possible.
“I tend, based on our analysis, to agree with people like John Negroponte and the new director of the CIA, who are saying that even if Iran wanted to go for a nuclear weapon, it would not be before the end of this decade or sometime in the middle of the next decade. In other words three to eight years from now,” ElBaradei told a news conference in Luxembourg.
Would you buy a used nuke from this guy?
Frank says: