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To: Road Walker who wrote (516550)	9/28/2009 7:59:55 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577987

Obama intended to keep Iran's secret - Iran itself forced the administration to acknowledge it .... Interviews with administration and international officials, diplomats, non-proliferation and Iran experts suggest the administration had no plans to announce its suspicions before beginning international talks with Iran next week. But its hand was forced after learning some time during the week of a letter Iran had sent the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency in Vienna acknowledging construction of a previously undisclosed facility. ........ IAEA officials told Obama aides about the letter Tuesday evening in New York, The New York Times reported Saturday. They met with Obama and James L. Jones, his national security adviser, on Wednesday to discuss strategy. According to The Times, European officials urged Obama to disclose the Iranian facility on Thursday morning, when he presided over the U.N. Security Council, but Obama and his aides decided to wait until Friday. ...... Why would the White House have preferred not to publicly disclose its Qom evidence, seemingly something of a smoking gun for the case that Iran hasn’t been transparent about even its current nuclear activities? Why was it only prompted to make the announcement after it learned of Iran’s letter to the IAEA? “Because the Iranians are trying to get in front and create an argument that they didn't do anything wrong,” the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s George Perkovich told POLITICO. “So to try to block that, Obama had to get [it] out. We would have been better off not announcing and keeping it as leverage and a way to see if the Iranians kept their word in a future deal.” Read more: politico.com