MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

“(Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday the full extent of Iran’s nuclear program was not reflected in a recent U.N. report, which said that Tehran appeared to have worked on designing an atomic bomb.

‘Iran is closer to getting an (atomic) bomb than is thought,’ Netanyahu said in remarks to cabinet ministers, quoted by an official from his office.

‘Only things that could be proven were written (in the U.N. report), but in reality there are many other things that we see,’ Netanyahu said, according to the official.

The Israeli leader did not specify what additional information he had about Iran’s nuclear program during his cabinet’s discussion on the report by the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released last week.

At the start of meeting, Netanyahu made a broadcast repeating his call for the world ‘to stop Iran’s race to arm itself with a nuclear weapon before it is too late.'” Read more.

‘No more point’ in concessions, says Iran’s foreign minister – “Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has said he sees no more room for compromise in the battle over Iran’s contested nuclear programme, in an interview published Sunday. ‘I think there’s no more point in making additional concessions,’ he told the German news weekly Der Spiegel. ‘The nuclear question is just a pretext to weaken us by all means,’ he added. Salehi rejected an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report released Tuesday citing ‘credible’ evidence that Iran had worked towards nuclear weapons…” Read more.

Top Iran official: Tehran should reconsider cooperation with UN nuclear agency – “The Iranian parliament called on the government Sunday to revise its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the wake of a damning report on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, state television IRIB reported. Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani said that after the latest IAEA report, there was an urgent need to revise cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog. He was referring to IAEA report released Tuesday, which stated that Iran had carried out tests ‘relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device.’… ‘The parliament deems necessary to review [Iran’s] cooperation with the agency, because it showed with its new approach that cooperation and non-cooperation makes no difference in its decision — which are unprofessional anyway,’ he told reporters, according to local media.” Read more.