The Financial Times (FT) is reporting that an Iran-bound ship seized by the United Arab Emirates last month "contained materials banned by UN Security Council resolutions 1737 and 1747, while the purchaser of the materials has been barred by the same resolutions."
Those resolutions were put in place, FT writers Simeon Kerr and Najmeh Bozorgmehr noted in their December 5 article, "to curtail its [Iran's] nuclear development programme."
Although Kerr and Bozorgmehr's Emirati government source "declined to identify the contents of the cargo or the Iranian company" that ordered them, the development is newsworthy, particularly in light of the shift in the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), that now concludes that Iran stopped its nuclear program in 2003.
A search of the December 5 Washington Post found no articles similar to Kerr and Bozorgmehr's, although it's unclear if the FT reporters have an exclusive scoop.
On December 4, the Post ran two above-the-fold front page stories about the 2007 NIE, including a news analysis piece by Peter Baker and Robin Wright entitled "A Blow to Bush's Tehran Policy."
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Yeah... Iran abandoned its effort to build a nuke...
December 5, 2007 - 16:11 ET by RonCsure it did! It's as certain as me walking to the moon and back by lunch today - and moonbats visiting military hospitals bearing gifts for injured heros.
waitaminute
December 5, 2007 - 16:39 ET by UndercoverConservativeI thought that Iran wasn't " a threat" anymore and that they weren't doing anything nasty nuclear after all.
Is that because they shipped all their "hazardous" prohibited dual-use technology out on various ships before inspection and are now trying to bring it all back?
Because I guarantee, if they caught one ship with illegal stuff, there's a few more that they didn't catch that brought it right thru.
A wee bit off subject...sorry
December 5, 2007 - 17:24 ET by m4ster chief...but the "ship" thing reminded me: Anybody know what ever happened to those two or three Iraqi "mystery ships" that were being shadowed by satellite and submarine just at the start of this current war? I remember hearing about the concern that they could be carrying some of Iraq's WMD away from the country, and everybody was speculating about the cargo and destination. I think "they" were considering dropping SEALs aboard the ships or just torpedoing them (wouldn't have done...Greenpeace would have sued over dead fish.)
Once the Marines began racing toward Baghdad we stopped hearing about the ships.
Well, how about that???!!!!
December 5, 2007 - 17:35 ET by c5thenThe WaPo doesn't report something that would undermine their political positio. I'm shocked.
The bigger issue is why no one is questioning the NIE this time because it seems just as flawed as the one that lead to the Iraq action in 2003. Doesn't it seem odd that in 2002 the administration "commissioned" an NIE on Iraq and the report came back confirming the already held beliefs and now, in 2007, one is "commisioned " by the Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid and it comes out agreeing with his already held beliefs.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes in "08!
Yours may very well be the
December 5, 2007 - 20:34 ET by Gary P JacksonYours may very well be the post of the day, if not the week!