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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12840-2004Jul25.html
Iran's Quest for the Atomic Bomb
(Reuters/Washington Post) It has been two years since a group of Iranian exiles accused Iran of hiding a secret atomic weapons program from UN inspectors, and diplomats and analysts say Tehran is only getting closer to the bomb. "Iranian leaders got together after the Iraq war and decided that the reason North Korea was not attacked was because it has the bomb. Iraq was attacked because it did not," a Western diplomat said this week, citing intelligence reports. Uzi Arad, director of Israel's Institute of Policy and Strategy and a former senior official in the Israeli intelligence service, said it was time the IAEA stated openly that Iran is pursuing nuclear arms - which it could one day use to destroy the Jewish state. "Anyone who suggests differently is under illusions," Arad said. "At which point will the IAEA state the obvious?"