Tehran
Iran is just a few years away from developing a nuclear bomb, the Los Angeles Times reported this week. Analysis of previously secret intelligence data and reports from nuclear-energy inspectors suggests that Iran is “moving purposefully and rapidly” toward building an atomic bomb. U.N. inspectors have found weapons-grade enriched uranium—not a natural byproduct of peaceful nuclear-energy production—at one Iranian site, and they were refused access to other facilities. Top North Korean and Pakistani nuclear scientists have made so many visits to Iranian nuclear facilities over the past few years that they now have their own vacation villas on Iran’s Caspian shore. The Iranians “are way ahead of where Iraq was in 1991,” said an unnamed U.N. official.
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