Iran's nuclear smoking gun

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While Iran continues to deny its nuclear program is for anything other than peaceful purposes, Tehran has bought massive amounts of beryllium, a metal vital to the process of initiating the chain reactions needed to create nuclear weapon, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence newsletter published by WND.

While beryllium has civilian uses, G2 Bulletin's intelligence sources say, because of the amounts secured by Iran and what they know about Iran's civilian research needs, there is absolute certainty this metal is being used in a nuclear weapons development program.

Beryllium can also be combined with polonium-210, a substance Iran is known to have, to initiate the chain reaction needed to detonate a nuclear weapon.

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Diplomatic sources, meanwhile, say they were aware of Iran's purchases of beryllium. They also said the United Nations nuclear chief Mohamed El-Baradei knew about the acquisition but had withheld the information from his own board of governors.

U.S. intelligence and military sources tell G2 Bulletin this is more evidence El-Baradei is covering up for Iran, soft-pedaling the country's abuses. There is a growing clamor, they say, to oust El-Baradei from this sensitive post.

Beryllium has a long list of innocent uses, such as in spark plugs and X-ray equipment. However, the amounts obtained, which were undisclosed by G2 Bulletin sources, were said to be far in excess of possible civilian uses by Iran. Furthermore, Iranian officials have claimed in the past that they have never worked with beryllium.

Meanwhile, the powerful former president of Iran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani reaffirmed Iran will resume enriching uranium after a maximum of six months, emphasizing in the clearest terms possible Tehran's freeze on nuclear fuel cycle work is only temporary.

"The last word is after this period, which I do not assume will exceed six months ... we must seriously and firmly follow enrichment programs and use the very important advantages of nuclear technology," he said. "So far, we have reached the point that we accept to suspend parts of our activities for a period that was not necessary at all.

Earlier this week El-Baradei's International Atomic Energy Agency spared Iran the fate of being referred to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions after Tehran agreed in a deal with Britain, France and Germany to suspend its uranium enrichment program.

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