The Wisconsin Project is a non-profit foundation run under the auspices of the University of Wisconsin since 1986. The organization goals are tracking and hopefully slowing the spread of nuclear weapons. Over time the scope of interest expanded into biological and chemical weapons as it becomes clear there is a continuing desire to possess products with extreme lethality. In 2004 the Project specifically began tracking events involving Iran and there is a recently updated report for anyone needing to refresh themselves about current events.
Iran Watch Status Report 1/3/2006 Iran has turned down the most promising prospect for compromise: a Russian proposal that would have allowed Iran to continue operating some enrichment-related plants but would have moved uranium enrichment itself to Russia. … Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani officially rejected it on January 1.A report in the Guardian yesterday says some Western Europeans are involved in what can only be viewed as a armament buildup in preparation for conflict.
On December 23, 2005, the U.S. State Department punished nine entities under the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000 for transferring equipment and technology to Iran that could be used in mass destruction weapon programs. The sanctions were reportedly imposed for transfers of missile and chemical weapon-useable material. Six of the nine companies punished were Chinese, and two had been previously sanctioned by the State Department for similar activities.
China, Russia and North Korea have combined to supply Iran’s missiles. Iran’s 1,300 kilometer Shahab-3 missile is essentially an imported North Korean Nodong missile enhanced by Russian technology. … it is widely assumed that if Iran fields a Shahab-4 missile, it will be a copy of Russia’s SS-4 missile. Both the Nodong and the SS-4 can carry a nuclear warhead. North Korea, in addition to selling the Nodong missile, has furnished Iran a fleet of SCUD-B and SCUD-C short-range missiles, plus the factories to make them.
For at least the last decade, Chinese organizations have also sold Iran the ingredients and equipment needed to make poison gas. According to the latest CIA report, Iran has continued to seek “production technology, training, and expertise” from Chinese entities. In 1996, the press reported that China was sending entire factories for making poison gas to Iran, including special glass-lined vessels for mixing precursor chemicals and hundreds of tons of chemicals useful for making nerve agents.
Intelligence Report Claims Nuclear Market Thriving It emphasises that west European engineering firms, germ laboratories, scientific thinktanks and university campuses are successfully preyed on by multitudes of middlemen, front companies, scholars with hidden agendas and bureaucrats working for the Iranian, Syrian or Pakistani regimes.One hundred years ago in 1906 an earthquake destroys San Francisco and the world is shocked at the magnitude of the damage. Still I doubt the majority of the population would believe that in less than half a century, Europe would be engaged in the factory slaughter of humans. With the hindsight of history none of us should be skeptical about the extremes of human behavior, even in these “modern times”.
