President Obama has been trotting the globe apologizing for George W. Bush, who had the audacity to put the interests of the United States above the interests of the United Nations. In the mean time prosecutors in New York indicted a Chinese National, accusing him of “setting up a handful of fake companies to hide that he was selling millions of dollars in potential nuclear materials to Tehran.”
“This case will cut off a major source of supply to Iran and it shows how they are going ahead full steam to get a nuclear bomb. Long-range missiles they pretty much have already,” a law enforcement source close to the case said.
“We think it is one of the largest suppliers of weapons of mass destruction to Iran.”
Experts say Iran, under the leadership of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, appears close to amassing enough nuclear material to make an atom bomb. A United Nations embargo bans Iran from acquiring the high-tech metals needed to make a long-range nuclear weapon a reality.
The indictment will outline the financial conspiracy behind 58 different transactions, including shipments of various banned materials from China to Iran between 2006 and late 2008.
Among them:
-33,000 pounds of a specialized aluminum alloy used almost exclusively in long-range missile production.
-66,000 pounds of tungsten copper plate, which is used in missile guidance systems.
-53,900 pounds of maraging steel rods, a superhard metal used in uranium enrichment and to make the casings for nuclear bombs.The recipient is believed to have been a subsidiary of the Iranian Defense Ministry.
The suspect, who is not believed to be in the U.S., set up four bogus import-export companies that did business with six Iranian shell firms, one source said.
Is this really the best time to cut military spending on missile defense or do away with our nuclear arsenal?
