Iran in 18-year nuclear weapons plan - US

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Iran in 18-year weapons plan - US

Press Association
October 14, 2005

Iran has engaged in an 18-year programme to develop nuclear weapons and might be intending to supply them to terrorists, one of the United States' most senior diplomats have claimed.

John Bolton, the US ambassador to the United Nations, accused the regime in Tehran of practising concealment and deception over its nuclear efforts, and their real objectives.

Interviewed on BBC 2's Newsnight, Mr Bolton said: "I think that the Iranians have been pursuing a nuclear weapons programme for up to 18 years.

"They have engaged in concealment and deception and they've engaged in threats before.

"The real issue is whether an international community is going to accept an Iran that violates its treaty commitments under the non-proliferation treaty, that lies about its programme and is determined to get nuclear weapons deliverable on ballistic missiles that it can then use to intimidate not only its own region but possibly to supply to terrorists."

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Good for John Bolton for making public what the secret services of the US and the hypocritical UK have known all along. If our Foreign Office were not so subservient to the Arab world, and if everyone entering the British diplomatic service were not brainwashed by being sent to the Diplomatic School in Beirut, maybe we would have a foreign service that admitted the facts.
The British Foreign Office has had a traditional of antisemitism, culminating in Lord Halifax, the foreign secretary during WWII who would love to have made a pact with Hitler, and of course Ernie Bevin, the former trades unionist from Bristol, whom the Eton-educated snobs of the FO welcomed with open arms for his Jew-hatred.
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