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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has issued its most recent report and finds Iran in complete compliance with the terms of the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty and its obligations under the IAEA. The function of the IAEA, as we originally laid it out, was to facilitate the transfer of nuclear technology from the haves to the have not nations for peaceful purposes. The agency has broad expertise, with individuals who know nuclear technology very thoroughly and they have had continuous, non-interrupted access to inspect Iran’s nuclear program. But the Bush administration and, in particular, Bonkers Bolton (John Bolton), have so distorted the facts of Iran’s compliance that they make it sound as if Iran is about to drop a nuclear device on our troops in Iraq. Bush has even suggested that if Iran should develop a nuclear device, it would mean WW III (meaning he is the one who would start it). The nuclear treaties and inspections that regulate the IAEA are highly complex matters. All of the stories that have been released about Iran’s implementation of centrifuge tubes for Uranium enrichment are either false or fail to recognize that Iran’s behavior in all matters related to nuclear technology development have been sanctioned by the U.N. and inspected regularly for compliance.

In matters such as these, I always turn to physicist Gordon Prather who knows this area inside-out. Prather emphasizes now, as he has done in the past, that Iran’s compliance is not in question and that the centrifuge tubes and stories related to them do not constitute a nuclear weapons program. The centrifuge tubes that Iran got from Pakistan don’t work and even if they did, the uranium enrichment possible is tiny compared to the huge amounts that are necessary to build a bomb. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani who has been accused of transferring nuclear bomb technology to other countries is not a bomb maker, but a metallurgist who was trained in Germany. Apparently the small number of centrifuge tubes that Iran may possess never worked for the Pakistanis in their bomb development program because they overheated and broke. The Bush administration has tried to turn the tables on the truth about nuclear weapons development in Iran, but this most recent report will make it more difficult for him to do so, unless he speaks from a military facility.