IAEA: IRAN BUILDING NUKE WEAPONS: ER, UM... NOW THEY TELL US!?!?!

NYTIMES:

The United Nation’s nuclear inspectors declared for the first time on Thursday that extensive information they have collected raised concerns about “past or current undisclosed activities” by Iran’s military to develop a nuclear weapon. The unusually strongly worded conclusion seems certain to accelerate Iran’s confrontation with much of the rest of the world.

The strong suspicions were described in the first report of the new head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, to the agency’s board. The report also concluded that Iran’s weapons-related activity apparently continued “beyond 2004,” directly contradicting an American intelligence assessment published a little over two years ago, which concluded that work was suspended at the end of 2003. While the intelligence agencies have never renounced that conclusions, several of President Obama’s top national security advisers have said they do not believe the American intelligence estimate. Many in the Bush administration also questioned that conclusion.

The report contains no assessment of how long it would take Iran to produce a nuclear weapon, and as recently as early last month administration officials said they believed it would be a year and a half, or maybe significantly longer, before Iran could become a weapons power. But the report cited a series of pieces of new evidence, much of it collected in recent weeks, that appeared to paint a picture of a concerted drive in Iran race toward a weapons capability.

WE CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THE IAEA CONFIRMS IRAN HAS A WEAPON.

WE CANNOT WAIT UNTIL IRAN TESTS A WEAPON.

WE CANNOT WAIT.

THE TIME HAS COME...