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With Mohamed ElBaradei out of the way, the truth can now be revealed about Iran’s nuclear weapon programme – Telegraph Blogs

Has anyone else noticed that, now Mohamed AlBaradei is no longer in charge of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, we are suddenly seeing a more realistic assessment of what the Iranians are really up to with their nuclear programme?

CQ Politics | Winnowing Down the Bio Threats

For much of his administration, Bush and homeland security officials said the threat of rogue scientists or al Qaeda sympathizers cooking up terror bugs like anthrax or plague was as great as that posed by a nuclear attack.

The high-profile case of Bruce Ivins, the government researcher charged with masterminding the 2001 anthrax mailings, only heightened such concerns.

But one outcome of the heightened vigilance is the [government’s list of “select agents” has gotten a bit long. It now includes 80 naturally occurring pathogens, from the potent toxin ricin and the exotic and potentially lethal Ebola virus to the treatable brucella — a parasite that causes livestock disease on three continents.

Danger Room - Wired Blogs:

The rest of the world may be focused on Iran’s nuclear program. But U.S. intelligence agencies, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations just can’t shake the suspicion that Iran may be trying to assemble other weapons of mass destruction, too: an arsenal of chemical and biological arms.

American Chronicle | The greatest threat to the United States security

The wedding of terrorist and nuclear weapons is now the greatest threat to the United States, security. The U.S. tried to deter terrorists from gaining access to nuclear weapons through Pakistan. The results however of investigations into Pakistani nuclear black market and nuclear proliferation network demonstrates in stark terms the devastating consequences of nuclear proliferation by Al-Qaeda and Taliban who may now have access to state-controlled nuclear weapons according to an American/Pakistani who said, “I read it in a Pakistan newspaper during a recent visit to that country”.

Uranium Enrichment: The Bushes, The Saudis and The Bomb | BaltimoreChronicle.com:

As the New Yorker reported years ago, the Saudis paid Saddam Hussein at least $5 billion from 1985 to 1990 to support his nuclear weapons program, with the understanding that they would get some of the big bombs for themselves.

AFP: Ahmadinejad says Israel will soon disappear:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted on Monday that Muslims would uproot “satanic powers” and repeated his controversial belief that Israel will soon disappear, the Mehr news agency reported.

It seems safe to declare that Iran is now considered by many analysts to be the most dangerous nation in the world.

Is Iran crazy? No, they won’t risk nuclear war - Opinion

The US now surrounds Iran.

Joe Lauria: The Coming War with Iran: It’s About the Oil, Stupid - Politics on The Huffington Post

The structural transformation on the international scene has led to a clear reduction in Israel’s deterrence power.

Israel and a Nuclear Middle East

In 2005, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a fatwa denouncing the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons, claiming that these actions are forbidden by Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire such weapons; hardly anyone in the West paid any attention to the message. He was not only warning the radical elements within the Islamic Republic, who do not hide their desire to have nuclear weapon capabilities, but also assuring the Western world that Iran is not pursuing the development of a nuclear bomb.

Are Iran and the U.S. ready to bite the bullet?

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