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Rice Accuses Iran of "Lying" about Nukes

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Now it's Iran "lying" according to Condi. Here, in her 
own lying words on Jan 23, 2003 is what she said about IRAQ:

"Why We Know Iraq is Lying"

A Column by Dr. Condoleezza Rice
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030123-1.html

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AP via Yahoo - Oct 11, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071011/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iran Rice says

Iran 'lying' about nukes

By MATTHEW LEE, 
Associated Press Write

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday accused Iran of "lying"
about the aim of its nuclear program, saying there's no doubt Tehran
wants the capability to produce nuclear weapons and has deceived the
U.N.'s atomic watchdog about its intentions.

"There is an Iranian history of obfuscation and, indeed, lying to the
IAEA," she said, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

"There is a history of Iran not answering important questions about
what is going on and there is Iran pursuing nuclear technologies that
can lead to nuclear weapons-grade material," Rice told reporters aboard
her plane as she headed to Moscow.

U.S. officials have long accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear
weapons behind the facade of a civil atomic energy program, charges
that Tehran denies. But Rice's strong words, including the blunt
reference to Iranian "lying," come at a critical time in dealing with
the matter.

The United States is trying to win Russian support for new U.N.
sanctions against Iran but has faced sharp resistance from Moscow,
which has nuclear cooperation agreements with Tehran and argues the
country should be given more time to come clean on its programs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week there is no proof
Tehran is trying to build the bomb. Rice and Defense Secretary Robert
Gates are scheduled to see him in Moscow on Friday.

Washington has been pressing for more sanctions since earlier this year.

But last month, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council
" Britain, China, France the United States and Russia " and Germany
agreed with the support of the European Union to hold off on a new
sanctions resolution until November to allow negotiations with Iran to
continue.

If no progress is made on two separate tracks " talks with E.U. foreign
policy chief Javier Solana on an offer of assistance in exchange for a
suspension in Iran's nuclear program and discussions with IAEA on its
past activities " they are to bring the resolution to a vote.

It remains unclear, though, if Russia and China, which also opposes
sanctions, will support it.

Even as work on the proposed resolution is to continue at an Oct. 17
meeting of senior diplomats in Europe, Putin said Wednesday that Russia
was not convinced Iran is trying to create nuclear weapons.

His comments came after talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy,
whose government is firmly behind the U.S. sanctions drive, and
appeared to deal a new blow to efforts to forge a consensus.

"We have no objective data that Iran is seeking to make atomic
weapons," Putin said. "Therefore, we proceed from the assumption that
Iran has no such plans."

Rice, however, stressed that Russia had signed on to the Sept. 28
agreement to consider new sanctions in November and said she did not
"expect that there is any deviation from that course at this point"
from the Russian side.

She also noted that Russia had in the past demonstrated its concern
about Iran's program by limiting its cooperation to prevent Tehran from
acquiring a full nuclear fuel cycle that could be used to produce
weapons-grade material.

"That concern was seen very clearly in Russia's offer to Iran to enrich
and reprocess in a joint venture and to bring back any spent fuel so
that the fuel cycle wouldn't be available to Iran," she said. "I think
there is a reason for that and that is suspicion about Iran's
intentions."

Copyright (c) 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

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> A Column by Dr. Condoleezza Rice
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030123-1.html
>
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>
> AP via Yahoo - Oct 11, 2007
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071011/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iran Rice says
>
> Iran 'lying' about nukes
>
> By MATTHEW LEE,
> Associated Press Write
>
> Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday accused Iran of "lying"
> about the aim of its nuclear program, saying there's no doubt Tehran
> wants the capability to produce nuclear weapons and has deceived the
> U.N.'s atomic watchdog about its intentions.
>
> "There is an Iranian history of obfuscation and, indeed, lying to the
> IAEA," she said, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
>


This is all pretty obvious, Iran wants to develop nuclear weaponry under the 
guise of a civilian nuclear energy programme. The most difficult part of 
making a nuclear bomb, is not the technology or the knowledge, every second 
year physics undergrad knows the precise requirements for creating a bomb, 
even the engineering skills, which has to be exact, is freely available, 
what they dont have though, is the means to refine the fuel to the necessary 
weapons grade.

That is a slow, expensive, and long process, of which an interesting 
byproduct is civilian energy generation.

Once a nation has the means, the money, and the materials, it is just a 
matter of time, nothing more.

Gaz