“We have reason to believe that specially trained Iranian science teachers are taking raw, unrefined brain power and bombarding it with knowledge at accelerated levels,”
“If current levels of student concentration remain this high, Iran could be a mere five to eight years away from developing an atomic scientist.”
“While we believe that a majority of these students were developed within Iran’s borders anywhere from 13 to 17 years ago, there is also evidence that they are importing older students from former Soviet republics and Pakistan in what officials have dubbed an ‘exchange program,’” CIA Director Michael Hayden said.
“The U.S. stopped enriching its students decades ago, and we call upon Iran to do the same,” Bush said.
Read the complete article here (see) Thanks to tellitlikeitis (see).
The eight-year war with Iraq was lead by two different groups. In one side there were the clerics, lead by the parliment’s speaker of the time Rafsanjani, whom had their rule as the bridge between the spiritual leader and the earthly art of attacking and defending. On the other side, there were Sepah commanders, including Mohsen Rezaei. It is so secret that these two groups were not always thinking similarly. Mainly, their rule in the “bitter” acceptance of the UN Resolution which put an end to the hostilities has always been disputed, by themselves.
Recently, Rafsanjani, who is the head of the chamber of the supreme leader’s advisers, and Rezaei, the speaker of the same chamber, have been arguing about the way the war was ended. Basically, each side claims that the other one asked for quiting the war because of shortage of equipment and budget. Now, Rafsanjani has revealed a letter from Khomeini, published 18 years ago, in which he mentions that the commanders have asked for tons of new equipments which the administration can’t supply and hence “we must accept the resolution”. The interesting part of the letter is where those equipment are listed: 350 infantry brigades, 2500 tanks, …, 300 helicopters and “good amount of Laser and Atomic Weapons”. The last part is mentioned as “…” in all Iranian sources. But, BBC says ILNA has had the sentence for a few hours before they turned to the dots, too (see).
I do not blame them; Iraq was using chemical weapons against Iranians. I say, let’s be honest; Khomeini never issued a Fatwa against nuclear weapons, or at least he did not really mean nuclear arsenal is as bad as pork is.
