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# The Global Intelligence Files

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## Re: Thoughts on Der Spiegel?

Released on 2012-08-11 00:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1095668
Date | 2010-01-25 19:40:38
From | burton@stratfor.com
To | analysts@stratfor.com
List-Name | analysts@stratfor.com

CIA also distrusts IAEA.
Reva Bhalla wrote:
> Any thoughts on Der Spiegel as an outlet for Mossad or any other
> intelligence agencies? Have we seen examples of this in the past? They
> have some insane detail here (read the second half) where they claim
> they've got all this access to a classified doc on Iran's nuclear
> weapons program
>
>
>
> 01/25/2010
>
>
>
>
> The Secret Nuclear Dossier
>
>
> Intelligence from Tehran Elevates Concern in the West
>
> By Dieter Bednarz, Erich Follath and Holger Stark
>
> *The West has long been suspicous of Iran's nuclear program. SPIEGEL has
> obtained new documents on secret tests and leadership structures that
> call into question Tehran's claims to be exclusively interested in the
> peaceful use of the technology.*
>
> It was probably the last attempt to defuse the nuclear dispute with
> Tehran without having to turn to dramatic new sanctions or military
> action. The plan, devised at the White House in October, had Russian and
> Chinese support and came with the seal of approval of the US president.
> It was clearly a Barack Obama operation.
>
>
> Under the plan, Iran would send a large share of its low enriched
> uranium abroad, all at once, for a period of one year, receiving
> internationally monitored quantities of nuclear fuel elements in return.
> It was a deal that provided benefits for all sides. The Iranians would
> have enough material for what they claim is their civilian nuclear
> program, as well as for scientific experiments, and the world could be
> assured that Tehran would not be left with enough fissile material for
> its secret domestic uranium enrichment program -- and for what the West
> assumes is the building of a nuclear bomb.
>
>
> PHOTO GALLERY
>
> * <http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-51080.html>
> * <http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-51080.html>
> * <http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-51080.html>
>
>
> 3 Photos
> *Photo Gallery:* Iran's Nuclear Program
> <http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-51080.html>
>
>
> Tehran's leaders initially agreed to the proposal "in principle." But
> for weeks they put off the international community with vague allusions
> to a "final response," and when that response finally materialized, it
> came in the form of a "counter-proposal." Under this proposal, Tehran
> insisted that the exchange could not take place all at once, but only in
> stages, and that the material would not be sent abroad. Instead, Tehran
> wanted the exchange to take place in Iran.
>
> Once again, the Iranian leadership has rebuffed the West with phony
> promises of its willingness to compromise. The government in Tehran
> officially rejected the nuclear exchange plan last Tuesday. To make
> matters worse, after the West's discovery of a secret uranium enrichment
> plant near Qom, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defiantly announced that
> he would never give in, and in fact would build 10 more enrichment
> plants instead.
>
> *Highly Volatile Material*
>
> But officials in Washington and European capitals are currently not as
> concerned about these cocky, unrealistic announcements as they are about
> intelligence reports based on sources within Iran and information from
> high-ranking defectors. The new information, say American experts, will
> likely prompt the US government to reassess the risks coming from the
> mullah-controlled country in the coming days and raise the alarm level
> from yellow to red. Skeptics who in the past, sometimes justifiably so,
> treated alarmist reports as Israeli propaganda, are also extremely
> worried. They include the experts from the United Nations International
> Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), whose goal is prevent the spread of nuclear
> weapons.
>
> After an extensive internal investigation, IAEA officials concluded that
> a computer obtained from Iran years ago contains highly volatile
> material. The laptop reached the Americans through Germany's foreign
> intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), and was then
> passed on to the IAEA in Vienna.
>
> Reports by Ali Reza Asgari, Iran's former deputy defense minister who
> managed to defect to the United States, where he was given a new
> identity, proved to be just as informative. Nuclear scientist Shahram
> Amiri, who "disappeared" during a pilgrimage to Mecca in June 2009, is
> also believed to have particularly valuable information. The Iranian
> authorities accused Saudi Arabia and the United States of kidnapping the
> expert, but it is more likely that he defected.
>
> Iran's government has come under pressure as a result of the new
> charges. They center on the question of who exactly is responsible for
> the country's nuclear program -- and what this says about its true
> nature. The government has consistently told the IAEA that the only
> agency involved in uranium enrichment is the National Energy Council,
> and that its work was exclusively dedicated to the peaceful use of the
> technology.
>
> But if the claims are true that have been made in an intelligence
> dossier currently under review in diplomatic circles in Washington,
> Vienna, Tel Aviv and Berlin, portions of which SPIEGEL has obtained,
> this is a half-truth at best.
>
> According to the classified document, there is a secret military branch
> of Iran's nuclear research program that answers to the Defense Ministry
> and has clandestine structures. The officials who have read the dossier
> conclude that the government in Tehran is serious about developing a
> bomb, and that its plans are well advanced. There are two names that
> appear again and again in the documents, particularly in connection with
> the secret weapons program: Kamran Daneshjoo and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
>
> *Secret Heart of Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program*
>
> Daneshjoo, 52, Iran's new minister of science, research and technology,
> is also responsible for the country's nuclear energy agency, and he is
> seen as a close ally of Ahmadinejad. Opposition leaders say he is a
> hardliner who was partly responsible for the apparently rigged
> presidential election in June. Daneshjoo's biography includes only
> marginal references to his possible nuclear expertise. In describing
> himself, the man with the steely-gray beard writes that he studied
> engineering in the British city of Manchester, and then spent several
> years working at a Tehran "Center for Aviation Technology." Western
> experts believe that this center developed into a sub-organization of
> the Defense Ministry known as the FEDAT, an acronym for the "Department
> for Expanded High-Technology Applications" -- the secret heart of Iran's
> nuclear weapons program. The head of that organization is Mohsen
> Fakhrizadeh, 48, an officer in the Revolutionary Guard and a professor
> at Tehran's Imam Hossein University.
>
> Western intelligence agencies believe that although the nuclear energy
> agency and the FEDAT compete in some areas, they have agreed to a
> division of labor on the central issue of nuclear weapons research, with
> the nuclear agency primarily supervising uranium enrichment while the
> FEDAT is involved in the construction of a nuclear warhead to be used in
> Iran's Shahab missiles. Experts believe that Iran's scientists could
> produce a primitive, truck-sized version of the bomb this year, but that
> it would have to be compressed to a size that would fit into a nuclear
> warhead to yield the strategic threat potential that has Israel and the
> West so alarmed -- and that they could reach that stage by sometime
> between 2012 and 2014.
>
> The Iranians are believed to have conducted non-nuclear tests of a
> detonating mechanism for a nuclear bomb more than six years ago. The
> challenge in the technology is to uniformly ignite the conventional
> explosives surrounding the uranium core -- which is needed to produce
> the desired chain reaction. It is believed that the test series was
> conducted with a warhead encased in aluminum. In other words, everything
> but the core was "real." According to the reports, the Tehran engineers
> used thin fibers and a measuring circuit board in place of the fissile
> material. This enabled them to measure the shock waves and photograph
> flashes that simulate the detonation of a nuclear bomb with some degree
> of accuracy. The results were apparently so encouraging that the Iranian
> government has since classified the technology as "feasible."
>
> SPIEGEL obtained access to a FEDAT organizational chart and a list of
> the names of scientists working for the agency. The Vienna-based IAEA
> also has these documents, but the Iranian president claims that they are
> forged and are being used to discredit his country. After reporting two
> years ago that the Iranians had frozen their nuclear weapons research in
> 2003, the CIA and other intelligence agencies will probably paint a
> significantly more sobering scenario just as the UN Security Council is
> considering tougher sanctions against Iran.
>
> *Mulling Sanctions*
>
> When France assumes the Council's rotating chairmanship in February,
> Washington could push for a showdown. While Moscow is not ruling out
> additional punitive measures, China, which has negotiated billions in
> energy deals with Iran, is more likely to block such measures.
>
> China could, however, approve "smart" sanctions, such as travel
> restrictions for senior members of the Revolutionary Guard and nuclear
> scientists. Fakhrizadeh is already on a list of officials subject to
> such restrictions, and Daneshjoo could well be added in the future.
>
> But the West would presumably be on its own when enforcing sanctions
> that would be truly harmful to Iran -- and to its own, profitable trade
> relations with Tehran. The most effective trade weapon would be a fuel
> embargo. Because of a lack of refinery capacity Iran, which has the
> world's second-largest oil reserves, imports almost half of the gasoline
> it uses. Sanctions would trigger a sharp rise in the price of gasoline,
> inevitably leading to social unrest. Experts are divided over whether it
> would be directed against the unpopular regime or if the country's
> leaders could once again inflame the Iranian people against the "evil West."
>
> This leaves the military option. Apart from the political consequences
> and the possibility of counter-attacks, bombing Iran's nuclear
> facilities would be extremely difficult. The nuclear experts have
> literally buried themselves and their facilities underground, in
> locations that would be virtually impossible to reach with conventional
> weapons.
>
> While even Israeli experts are skeptical over how much damage bombing
> the facilities could do to the nuclear program, the normally levelheaded
> US General David Petraeus sounded downright belligerent when asked
> whether the Iranian nuclear facilities could be attacked militarily.
> "Well, they certainly can be bombed," he said just two weeks ago in
> Washington.
>
> /Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan/
>