A nuclear Iran

Three articles that you should read:

1. The Telegraph report the story of Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri and how his information lead to the "discovery" of the secret Qom site.


2. The Telegraph also report that:

"Iran is working on a key final component of a nuclear bomb, according to confidential intelligence documents. The notes, reportedly from Iran's most sensitive military nuclear project, include details of a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the part of a nuclear bomb that triggers the explosion.

The documents date to early 2007, four years after Iran was thought to have suspended its weapons programme."

3. The Times reports that because of stories like the above two:

"The moment is fast approaching when Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, may have to make the most difficult decision of his career — whether to launch a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities and risk triggering a conflagration that could spread across the Middle East.

Israeli experts believe the point of no return may be only six months away when Iran’s nuclear programme will have — if it has not already — metastasised into a multitude of smaller, difficult-to-trace facilities in deserts and mountains, while its main reactor at Bushehr will have come online and bombing it would send a radioactive cloud over the Gulf nations.

Mr Netanyahu has consistently called Iran the most serious threat Israel faces. President Ahmadinejad of Iran has called for Israel to be obliterated and his Revolutionary Guards supply training, money and weapons to both Hezbollah in Lebanon, on Israel’s northern border, and to Hamas in the Gaza Strip, whose missiles are believed to be capable of reaching Tel Aviv."

Scary world, isn't it?