Monday, March 13, 2006
Pundit RhetIraq: David Kay on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
Who: David Kay, Former head of the Iraq Survey Group and ex-UN Weapons Inspector
Source: Al Jazeera
Quotes: From article titled, "Nuclear expert: Too late to stop Iran"
"I'm afraid that we probably are past the point where there is any meaningful alternative other than military action to stop the Iranians if they are determined to go ahead. And I don't see that as a possibility," David Kay, who led the US search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq following the 2003 invasion, said on Sunday.
"My great fear is indeed we will have to learn to leave Iran, and all its terrorist connections, with the bomb," Kay told NBC television's Today Show while declining to say for certain that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.
Kay, who was the chief UN weapons inspector from 1983 to 1992, would not say for certain that Iran was seeking to build nuclear weapons. "Intentions - that's always the weakest link in intelligence, and it certainly is in this case," he said.
"What you can say right now is Iran has taken a number of steps that are preparatory to having a nuclear weapon. You cannot say that in fact they definitively made that decision to go ahead with that weapons programme."
Source: Al Jazeera
Quotes: From article titled, "Nuclear expert: Too late to stop Iran"
"I'm afraid that we probably are past the point where there is any meaningful alternative other than military action to stop the Iranians if they are determined to go ahead. And I don't see that as a possibility," David Kay, who led the US search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq following the 2003 invasion, said on Sunday.
"My great fear is indeed we will have to learn to leave Iran, and all its terrorist connections, with the bomb," Kay told NBC television's Today Show while declining to say for certain that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.
Kay, who was the chief UN weapons inspector from 1983 to 1992, would not say for certain that Iran was seeking to build nuclear weapons. "Intentions - that's always the weakest link in intelligence, and it certainly is in this case," he said.
"What you can say right now is Iran has taken a number of steps that are preparatory to having a nuclear weapon. You cannot say that in fact they definitively made that decision to go ahead with that weapons programme."
