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EXCLUSIVE: Iranian Nuclear Engineers Secretly Reveal - Nukes in 3-5 Years

Ghazal Omid - 11/27/2005

When will Iran become a Nuclear Power? What can we do to stop it? This is the important question burning in everyone’s mind in North America and around the globe. We all know too well that if Iran becomes a nuclear power it will be a huge threat to all of us in the human family. We need to be vigilant but must avoid accepting rumor as fact. And, we must not allow a bunch of fiction writers to lead us into a war with Iran.

There have been a number of books published recently in which the authors claim Iran will become “nuclear’ sometime in the next few months. The writers are often Americans, trusting anonymous documents sent to them by Iranians or claiming they have inside information from operatives inside the CIA.

Yet, many claims are false, usually obviously false on their face.

First: For those who blindly believe stories from people coming out of Iran, you have to be very careful accepting their claims. Desperate refugees will lie to save themselves and, since they hate the government of Iran, find it permissible to make up stories in order to find a place outside the Iranian bureaucracy and be able to work. Point in case: My own brothers lied about their involvement and imprisonment. Neither ever had anything to do with the regime or opposition to it, yet, to impress immigration officials, they made up stories about how they were arrested and spent months in prison. In reality, the closest thing to prison was military boot camp for one and, for the other, being stopped by patrol officers while he was fleeing in women’s clothes to Pakistan.

Second: If a CIA operator truly passes classified documents to an author, shouldn’t he/she be facing a laundry list of criminal and treason charges for actions that can affect all the human family? And, how does the writer verify the credibility of the evidence he claims to have?

Third: If every author and journalist can use classified information to sell a book, what is the meaning of “intelligence?” Are we at a stage in life that can we get classified, life and death information from the media and books?

Fourth: If the author is subpoenaed, can he identify and produce his/her resources? What is the publisher’s responsibility in printing books containing claims that cannot be authenticated but can conceivably cause panic in the public or even start a war with another country; all based on potentially false information? Shouldn’t there be a disclaimer on the cover page stating that the evidence in this book cannot be verified and therefore we are not sure if it is authentic?

As an Iranian expatriate, few know the government of Iran as well I because I grew up resisting the mullahs who hijacked Iran. I was kidnapped by the Iranian secret police on the streets of Isfahan. I escaped by jumping out of their speeding car and rescued by people in the street. Eventually, however, I was taken to prison and given a choice of signing a document stating that the kidnapping never occurred or remaining in prison until I did sign it.

But the Iranian nuclear development is a much more worrisome issue than abuse of human rights of people like myself. According to United Nation Nuclear Watch, Iran is getting awfully close to making an atomic bomb.

My sources in Iran, who are at this moment working in the Isfahan nuclear facilities, tell me that, at the current rate of development, Iran will not be a nuclear power sooner than three to five years. The sources are close to my family and I've known them for many years. They have been employed at Iranian nuclear facilities for many years.

I have been reluctant to mention them because I did not want to jeopardize my family still in Iran. But, hearing the rumors flying around, it is my responsibility to step up and question assertions that I believe have been created by fear of the unknown. I am sure the authors of numerous books want to help humanity but creating a state of panic, without proof, can have devastating consequences.

I have warned repeatedly of world danger if Iran becomes a nuclear power. I believe if Iran becomes a nuclear power, it may give it to terrorists. Then North Americans should start digging - either their shelters or their graves. Thankfully, we are not there yet.

I don’t want to start preparing for what may become an inevitable war with Iran. At this point, a war against Teheran would be a mistake. There are other ways to stop Iran.

I learned, while doing my research on the uranium currently causing controversy among all the nuclear watch committees that it was of Chinese and Russian origin; sold to Iran by a Pakistani scientist. Both are members of the UN Council and have plenty at stake in Iran. I often say, technology doesn’t fall from the sky onto someone’s lap. Someone must give it away. There is ample, irrefutable evidence that Russia and China, both considered USA allies, gave the nuclear technology to Iran. China, in particular, has great trade with the US. So much so, that if you go into any shop in the United States it would be difficult to find one that does not offer Chinese products.

A lot of people who think they know the Middle East better than someone like me, who lived most of her life there, are asking the UN for sanctions against Iran. What they are forgetting is, sanctions for governments like Iran, Cuba or North Korea mean nothing. We all saw what happened to common Iraqi’s under Sadam Hussein’s rule when sanctions were placed upon Iraq. Iran is no different. Iranians who live now on the verge of poverty will lose their battle for a marginal existence while the government of Iran will find money to continue its own existence.

It is important for the US to consider attempts to influence China and Russia through trade restrictions to stop sending technology and scientists to help Iran. After all, Iran doesn’t have enough native scientists to operate the nuclear facilities. They were purged in the revolution.

Many critics believe it is all very easy, saying it seems such a simple operation that an engineering student could do it. If so, why didn’t Iran become a nuclear power in 28 years under the mullah’s governing and why do we suddenly hear about it today? Many Russian scientists who can’t find jobs in other countries have been driven by money to go to Iran. Pakistan has never adequately punished the Pakistani dealer and scientist for facilitating the transfer of this immensely dangerous power to many countries, including Iran. China has nothing to lose. They have the US by the neck. If they stop trading with the US, presumably, it would be the US that will ask for their cheap products and labor to be resumed and reinstated.

It is an old cliché; we can’t have our cake and eat it too. We can’t have trade partners who betray us. If you want to stop Iran or another country from become a nuclear power, stop China from selling the technology.