Iran Pushing the Envelope
Roger L. Simon
Is Iran on the brink of an explosion? We've heard that for a long time, but they are certainly pushing the envelope these days:
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday that
weapons recently confiscated in Iraq were "clearly,
unambiguously from Iran" and admonished Tehran for
allowing the explosives to cross the border.
Iran's defense minister denied the claims in a report
carried by the state-run news agency IRNA.
According to Ali Shamkhani, Iran is playing no role in
Iraqi affairs, including "its alleged involvement in bomb
explosions."
The shipment of sophisticated bombs was confiscated in
the past two weeks by U.S. and Iraqi troops in southern
Iraq, senior U.S. officials said Monday.
Meanwhile, there's this "reassuring" tidbit:
Iran today broke United Nations seals on advanced uranium
enrichment equipment in the Isfahan nuclear facility, as
the International Atomic Energy Agency debated a
resolution calling on the government in Tehran to halt
such work.
`"The seals were broken, and our cameras and surveillance
system is fully operational," IAEA spokesman Mark
Gwozdecky in Vienna said in a telephone interview. "`They
have indicated that they intend to operate all parts of
the facility, in time, although it will take a while to
get everything up and running.'"
Am I the only one who finds this more disturbing than the Cold War?
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