Pakistan sold Iran nuke tech in 1980s, former President Rafsanjani reveals .

[Areesh]

Meh. Too late. All three Pakistan, Iran and USA have moved on from this issue.

 

[p4kistan]

Pak gave Iran 4,000 centrifuges: Former Iranian Prez Rafsanjani | world | Hindustan Times

Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has lifted the lid on Pakistan’s role in the development of Iran’s nuclear programme, saying Pakistan provided designs and technology, including 4,000 used centrifuges for enriching uranium.

Rafsanjani also said in an interview with Iranian media this week that Iran considered pursuing a nuclear deterrent when it began its atomic programme in the 1980s in the midst of an eight-year war with Iraq.

He did not state clearly whether the transfer of the technology and designs had the sanction of the Pakistani government or was the work of the proliferation ring run by disgraced scientist AQ Khan.

Khan was among those who believed Iran should have the bomb, he said. Both Rafsanjani and Ayatollah Khamenei – Iran’s current Supreme Leader – tried unsuccessfully to meet Khan during visits to Pakistan.

“At the time that we started, we were at war and we were looking to have this capability (the nuclear bomb) for the day that our enemy would want to resort to the nuclear bomb,” Rafsanjani said.

Iran turned to Pakistan for help with its nuclear programme after it “lost faith in the Germans” following the 1979 revolution and “began thinking of alternative approaches”, he said. “We had talks with the Pakistanis, a scientist called Mr Abdal-Qadir Khan (AQ Khan),” Rafsanjani said in the interview with Etemad newspaper.

“During my visits to Pakistan, I wanted to meet him but they did not introduce him to me. Ayatollah Khamenei too did not meet him. But during the (Iran-Iraq) war, we both tried to restart the program. It seems (AQ) Khan himself was of the belief that the world of Islam should have a nuclear bomb,” he said.

“At any rate, it was agreed that they (Pakistan) should help us a bit – for example, by delivering second-hand first-generation centrifuges, along with some designs – so that we could build it ourselves. Gradually, we started the work...,” he added.

“The Pakistanis gave us 4,000 second-hand first-generation centrifuges, along with designs.”

The centrifuges received from Pakistan were used for the “first part of the enrichment work” at a facility established in Amir Abad.

Rafsanjani also provided details of the help provided by Pakistan’s close ally China. “In Saghand, the Chinese drilled very deep wells until we reached uranium,” he said.

“The Isfahan UCF (uranium conversion facility) was built by the Chinese. They produced the plans,” Rafsanjani said. “We gave the Chinese $60 million for Isfahan, but they left the job unfinished.”

There were also “all sorts of black market offers”. Without giving details, Rafsanjani said: “Some offered us 90% enriched uranium, others 100%, and others offered technology.”

Pakistan has insisted for long that all nuclear transfers to Iran were the work of Khan’s clandestine network. Khan was placed under house arrest after he confessed to running the proliferation ring in 2004. He subsequently retracted the confession and said he had acted on the instructions of successive governments.

In 2009, Pakistan lifted most of the restrictions imposed on Khan. However, it has not allowed him to be questioned by US or IAEA investigators.

In the past, Iran has informed the IAEA that the Pakistani network had provided centrifuge specifications and equipment and a document on shaping enriched uranium for use in a bomb.

AND THE MORAL OFF THE STORY IS:

SUPPLY & DEMAND BASIC ECONOMICS.

If we didn't supply someone else would have, end of story.

 

[Azad-Kashmiri]

So if the article is to be believed then Amrka and the Zionists have every reason to doubt the Iranian Nuclear programme is peaceful. That means the Iranians are lying! Like I said before, 2016 is going to be a tough year for Pakistan because of the damn temple the Zionists have to build before 2017.

There are going to be more lies that are going to surface; we had the 'dogs of hell' (isis) say they can buy the nukes from us. Now the Iranian lies and I wonder what the next lie they will come up with to malign us in an attempt to de-nuke us! Watch this space...!

 

[TOPGUN]

Where are the Zionists......

You are it right now lolz...

 

[my2cents]

Meh. Too late. All three Pakistan, Iran and USA have moved on from this issue.

why are you in a hurry to brush it under the carpet???

 

[Sugarcane]

What was the need of saying this when Iran herself have officially surrendered her nuclear programs? Do Iran want Pakistan to be next?

 

[Areesh]

why are you in a hurry to brush it under the carpet???

Because all the related parties have brushed it under the carpet.

 

[Ghareeb_Da_Baal]

he damn temple the Zionists have to build before 2017.

hain? what ur talking bout?enlighten us pls...

 

[haman10]

What was the need of saying this when Iran herself have officially surrendered her nuclear programs? Do Iran want Pakistan to be next?

Did Iran really "officially surrendered her nuclear programs?"

as a Pakistani-Iranian you should know more . not only that statement is very untrue , but also you should know that rafsanjani is a what we call here a "mohreye sookhte" . he has lost all his popularity and just throws random BS to get some attention .

Having access to Iranian media , how many people quoted what he said ? no one

Hindustan Times gave more attention to this than the Iranian media and you can guess why

 

[xperia]

Pakistani ISI was behind the bombing of nukes on heroshima and nagasaki : HINDUSTAN TIMES

 

[Azad-Kashmiri]

hain? what ur talking bout?enlighten us pls...

Bhai, just read up on the Jewish 4 blood moon (just happened) and temple. It's their eschatology that where the masjid al-aqsa stands has to be destroyed to build their temple before 2017 This is why all of a sudden the Zionists are attacking the Palestinians. They have occupied part of the harem that caused the Palestinians to rise up and started stabbings, etc The Zionist leader Natanyahood said, the Hitler did not want to do the holocaust, it was the Mufti of Palestine idea to demonise the Palestinians to kill them easily.

They will not pull down the Masjid until Pakistan is not de-nuked!

 

[Hyperion]

So bloody what - who can do shit about it? AQ Khan walks a free man and so do all the others involved. Sanction threats and deportation threats are for weaklings. India and US need to deal with it.

Following list is a reality with which every ones needs to get comfortable with

1. Gwadar
2. CPEC
3. Militarization of SCS.

There's no pressure in heavens or on earth that can stop any of the above. Biggest loser in all of this is India, which will just keep dreaming of meaningless memberships in International fora as a third grade applicant and lose where it really matters, business.

What India can do best is make a Bollywood movie about it!

 

[Max]

nothing new, IAEA and all world know this...

Pakistan sold Iran nuke tech in 1980s, former President Rafsanjani reveals.

@waz @Horus Duplicate threads on same topic..

 

[I M Sikander]

He was a successful smuggler who gave you the bomb. That i do not deny.

Now tell me which average scientist would have endorsed the water car defying the basics of physics? Answer - not one. So his scientific knowhow is pretty obvious to everyone.

No he was not punished by musharraf, he was used to whitewash the deeds of pakistani state.

If nuclear bombs can be made by smuggling then the whole world would have nukes.

Kids liks you cant judge a phd scientist.

Mushi punished him because he insulted mushi at the time of ghauri missile test when he came drunk on the test site.
Mushi had personal hatred with AQ khan , so he made him an example as he became powerful.

 

[Max]

I think this statement is bullshit!

Along with Rafsanjani.......