{"id":5322,"date":"2005-10-05T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2005-10-05T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T22:55:15","slug":"army-takes-control-of-iran-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=5322","title":{"rendered":"“Army takes control of Iran nukes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Washington Times<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Iran’s new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has placed the military firmly in control of his nation’s nuclear program, undercutting his government’s claim that the program is intended for civilian use, according to a leading opposition group.\n<\/p>\n

\n Leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the force created specifically to defend the 1979 Islamic revolution, now dominate Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the country’s top foreign policy-making body under the constitution.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mr. Ahmadinejad, a little-known former mayor of Tehran before his surprise election in July, is a former IRGC commander, as is new council Secretary-General Ali Larijani, who has taken the lead in negotiations about Iran’s nuclear programs.<\/p>\n

Revolutionary Guard commanders also have taken charge of the council’s internal security, strategy and political posts, according to a report issued by the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran. A Revolutionary Guard veteran even serves as the council’s press spokesman.<\/p>\n

“The military under the new president is firmly in control of the nuclear program and the nuclear negotiations with the United Nations and the West,” said Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the NCRI’s foreign affairs committee, in a telephone interview yesterday.<\/p>\n

The personnel changes “make it less and less credible that Iran is pursuing nuclear programs for peaceful uses,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nYeah.  I know I’m<\/i> stunned…\n<\/p>\n

\n(h\/t Tom Pechinski, via Rantburg<\/a>)
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From The Washington Times: Iran’s new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has placed the military firmly in control of his nation’s nuclear program, undercutting his government’s claim that the program is intended for civilian use, according to a leading opposition group. Leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the force created specifically to defend the 1979 Islamic revolution, now dominate Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the country’s top foreign policy-making body<\/p>\n

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