The Iranian Labyrinth

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The key point is very simple: the machinery -- equipment that is used to enrich uranium to about 3 1/2 to 4 percent for electric power, and another 20 percent for reactors, and 90 percent for bomb-making -- it's the same equipment which does it [all]. You can devise a car, that once it hits 80 miles an hour, it seizes up. It can be done. If there is some genius around the corner, and he or she can devise a centrifuge system whereby as soon as it goes to 90 percent it seizes up, I'm sure that particular inventor would win the Nobel Prize for physics and chemistry combined.

Seriously, more importantly and without any element of humor, the US and the European Union should start funding a project to say, OK, we are going to put up this money. We are going to make this system in such a way that once uranium reaches 90 percent, it seizes up. That is positive thinking. ... Unless that is done I don't think the problem can be solved.

So much of this stuff is going at it with "ground" Iran. Very few people come up with original ideas. They say, We take it for granted that Iran has not behaved as it should have. You can argue that they've broken the spirit of the NPT if not the actual, physical thing because the IAEA has publicly said we do not have evidence that Iran is engaged in a nuclear weapons program. I'm sure you've seen the story in the NYT about the laptop business [in which the CIA claimed to have a stolen Iranian laptop with designs for a nuclear warhead]. This information was shown to the IAEA in July, and I'll quote a Reuters' quote -- this is one of the IAEA officials: "There was a meeting in July where we were shown information -- basically design works on a missile cone, that is, the space where the warhead would go. The information did not seem conclusive, the 'smoking gun.' No one has augmented this data since then, and we are in no position to know whether the data indeed came from the Iranians."

Very few non-Americans would take this thing very seriously because Colin Powell, in February 2003, went to the UN Security Council and made 26 statements of fact. All of these turned out to be lies. Concoctions. And I in my book Secrets and Lies demolish that thing two years ago. As we speak, 68 percent of Americans, when asked the question, Is Mr. Bush honest and ethical?, they said no. In America, Bush is not respected. So how do Americans expect non-Americans would really take this kind of thing seriously? ... I don't think anybody would be fooled by this kind of propaganda.

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