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11/25/2005:

"Atomic Agency Delays Action on Iran"

VIENNA, Nov. 24 - The International Atomic Energy Agency delayed taking any action on Iran's nuclear program on Thursday, even as the British delegate, speaking for Europe, said that a process described in documents offered to Iran, which came to light last week, "has no other application other than the production of nuclear warheads."

The widely anticipated move to delay consideration of sending Iran's case to the United Nations Security Council was aimed at reopening negotiations on a Russian proposal for a compromise which would allow Iran to enrich uranium, but only in Russia and under strict controls.

The charges made by Peter Jenkins, the British delegate to the atomic energy agency, refer to a report issued last week by the agency's director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, indicating that Iran recently turned over documents showing that in 1987 a Pakistani nuclear expert offered it equipment for machining enriched uranium into a hemispherical form normally used in nuclear weapons.
nytimes.com

1987? OFFERED equipment?

Gingrich sees Iran threat to U.S. like Nazi Germany
WASHINGTON – The threat posed to the national security of the United States by Iran was likened only to the one posed by Nazi Germany in the 1930s, by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who suggested Tehran could be planning for a pre-emptive nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack on America that would turn a third or more of the country "back to a 19th century level of development."

Gingrich made the stunning statements, which echo warning of other congressional leaders and national security experts, in testimony before a subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last week.