Group: Iran Resumed Nuclear Weapons Program in 04
The Wall Street Journal reports that “[t]he he Iranian opposition group that first exposed Iran’s nuclear-fuel program said a U.S. intelligence analysis is correct that Tehran shut down its weaponization program in 2003, but claims that the program was relocated and restarted in 2004.”
The National Council for Resistance in Iran will make this claim public today, as part of “a broader pushback by conservative hawks who say the U.S. analysis has wrongly given the impression that Iran’s nuclear-fuel program doesn’t present an urgent threat.”
Fox News adds that the NCRI “has had a mixed record of accuracy with its claims about Iran’s nuclear ambitions in the past” and that it’s considered to be a terrorist organization by both the United States and the European Union.
In other words, they’re not exactly the most reliable of sources.
Mohammad Mohaddessin, NCRI’s foreign affairs chief, told the Wall Street Journal: “They scattered the weaponization program to other locations and restarted in 2004. Their strategy was that if the IAEA found any one piece of this research program, it would be possible to justify it as civilian. But so long as it was all together, they wouldn’t be able to.”
Of course that’s possible, and I believe that experts should take a second look at the NIE, at what Iran is doing and that Israel and the United States should intelligence, but we have to keep in mind that the NCRI isn’t as trustworthy as, say, the CIA.
Jules Crittenden reacts: “Well, it’s not like the United States intelligence community is the most reliable of sources, either.”
True enough.
How will be Curveball and Chalabi in Farsi ?
Wil they be wearing patches TOO?
But we all know which "intellilgence" the White House will cherry pick to believe.