Iran: most pressing issue for 2009
By Olivier Guitta
Last week, the French National Assembly (equivalent of Congress) issued a report concluding that Iran could get a nuclear weapon anywhere between 2009 and 2010.
It did not get the coverage it deserved but is a reminder that Iran needs to be a focus for the incoming Obama administration.
I wrote an article on this topic for The Middle East Times.
You can read it in full here.
Here is an excerpt:
While the recent focus of the world's media has been on the global economic crisis, another issue of major concern is looming: Iran and its nuclear program. The incoming U.S. administration of Barack Obama is going to have to tackle this issue in the first days of office. Indeed, even though it did not get much coverage, the French National Assembly issued an alarming report which assessed that Iran could get its first nuclear bomb between 2009 and 2010.
This assessment is the result of a one-year research where numerous experts were interviewed both in Iran and outside of Islamic Republic.
The president of the commission, Socialist MP Jean-Louis Bianco is certain that the Iranian nuclear program is military.
Said Bianco: "The Iranians have enriched 1,600 kilos of uranium but are unable to give an answer, to show a concrete project when one asks them about the advances of their civilian program. Why?"
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