"THOSE TRICKY IRANIANS ARE NOW THREATENING TO COOPERATE
NEW YORK October 05, 2009" - Note the date.

"In reality, the Qum plant was detected by US spy satellites over two years ago, and was known to the intelligence community."

That would put it at 2007 eh??

Work being undertaken at Qum was detected and reported in 2002.

"Iran is just as fearful of an Israeli nuclear attack as Israel is of an Iranian nuclear attack." - Utter rubbish, even when threatened with five armies camped on its borders and totally outnumbered in manpower, tanks, guns and aircraft the Israelis still relied on conventional arms to save themselves from destruction, by this time the Israel nuclear programme had been fully functional for eight years and the Nuclear NPT was still six years away.

Besides the real importance of the sites at Natanz and at Qum was that they had to remain "secret" - Natanz given away in 2002 by Iranian dissidents, Qum by who knows? Now that they have been exposed they pose no threat the Iranian Revolutionary Guards had to run parallel nuclear programmes, one open and apparently fully transparent and the second totally secret, for their scheme to have worked. Iran now has to explain to an international community that is becoming increasingly sceptical about Iranian intentions with every revelation, just exactly what they are playing at.

The Islamic regime in Iran will be brought down by Iranians without the need for outside intervention by anybody, all Ahmadinejad and the 12 Old Gits bought themselves at the last election was a little time, nothing more.