BUSH’S BUSHEHR BURNING BUSH!
Sanctions Needed to Extinguish Bush’s Bushehr Burning Bush!
December 21, 2007
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I do not believe sanctions will prevent Iran from creating a nuclear warhead, but since the Annapolis Peace Conference and the CIA NIE have virtually removed the air strikes to eliminate Iran’s nuclear sites from the table of options, any port in a storm is worth seeking.
Begin Two Excerpts Extracted from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs- Daily Alert Center
December 20, 2007
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Bush and Bushehr – Editorial
After a year’s delay, Russia announced this week that it will begin supplying 80 tons of uranium for the nuclear reactor it has built for Iran in Bushehr.
Now we’ re supposed to believe that the Bushehr
reactor will have a purely civilian purpose.
Yet there is a good reason why the Bush Administration tried to stop the Russians from delivering fuel, and the Clinton Administration lobbied hard against Russia’s initial decision to build Bushehr
in the 1990s.
John Carlson, until recently the chairman of the IAEA’s Standing Advisory Group on Safeguards Implementation, has written that “during the normal operation of large light water reactors of the sort Iran is building at Bushehr, the reactor will produce 330 kilograms of near-weapons grade plutonium – enough to make over 50 crude nuclear bombs.” Carlson added that the process of separating plutonium from spent fuel from the reactor “employs technology little more advanced than those required for the production of dairy products and the pouring of concrete.” (Wall Street Journal)
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Sanction Iran Now
Matthew Levitt (Financial Times Deutschland/Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
The more significant conclusion of the latest U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear intentions and capabilities is that the most likely tool to successfully alter Iran’ s nuclear calculu
s is targeted political and economic pressure, not military action.
Iran continues to produce fissile material and the ballistic missiles needed to deploy a weapon. According to IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in “only a few months” once it completes the fuel-cycle facilities it is building.
The answer is to sanction Iran now, before it reaches this critical threshold.
All those interested in averting a military confrontation with Iran must rededicate themselves to employing a robust regime of smart sanctions targeting Tehran’s illicit activities.
While multilateral sanctions are always preferable, targeted financial measures applied unilaterally by major economic powers and regional bodies are sufficient to successfully target Iran with painful financial sanctions.
The writer directs the Stein Program on Terrorism, Intelligence, and Policy at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and was deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for intelligence and analysis.
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