Iran Withheld Nuke Info Over Fears Of Being Attacked
VIENNA, Austria — Iran, in a confidential letter posted Friday on an internal Web site of the U.N. nuclear monitor, said its fear of attack from the U.S. and Israel prompted its decision to withhold information from the agency.
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No enrichment is yet taking place at Natanz, but diplomats accredited to the IAEA said Friday it may start within days. If so, those cameras are crucial for IAEA experts in their efforts to monitor possible attempts to reconfigure machinery there into making weapons grade uranium — used in the fissile core of nuclear warheads.
Iran insists it wants to enrich only to low levels, suitable for generating nuclear power. But the international community increasingly fears that the country may want to develop enrichment for weapons uses.
Iran said Sunday it would no longer provide the IAEA with advance notice about any new nuclear facilities planned — a decision the government spokesman Gholan Hossein Elham said came in response to the "illegal and bullying resolution by (the) Security Council."
If they wanted to enrich uranium for nuclear power, why would they need to withhold information? Outlining plans to produce nuclear energy should've been the first thing they handed the inspectors. However; their reluctance to divulge information and their stubbornness only leads to the obvious assumption they want to do more than produce electricity. Also, their lack of openness about this is what will cause the United States or Israel to attack them.
