Iran and Syria secretly continuing nuclear projects

Unlike Rush, I do not believe Obama is merely in over his head - I believe this is silent approval of these jihad advances. I have been predicting this for close to two years. President Hussein's inaction is an action. President Hussein's new world order.

When this stuff happened around the world during the Bush administration, Bush would pop up and say something about it and condemn it and say that we weren't going to put up with it, that they are on the list. I think Obama just doesn't care, or he's in over his head on this stuff, probably a combination of the two. .... But regardless, the only thing he has said of any significance about things happening in the era of foreign policy is to express his displeasure with the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu is going to be forming the government in Israel. He doesn't like the fact that the Israelis are going to be governed here by a right-wing coalition. Yemen released 120 terrorists to the street. We're not prosecuting the Yemeni USS Cole people. Not a word from Obama about that. So that may be an area of incompetence or simple lack of concern.  (more here - hat tip Barry)

And Iran knows it. With President Hussein's lifting of sanctions against Syria, and possibly Iran, approval of an aerospace system for Syria, Iran and Syria have hit the ground running.

Israel: Iran, Syria secretly continuing nuclear projects

Iran and Syria are secretly working on nuclear technology in a manner which risks peace in the region and the world, while bluntly ignoring their international obligations," a statement by the Foreign Ministry said Friday evening.

The statement was issued following a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which indicated Iran was continuing to enrich uranium.

"The report on Iran indicates a continuation of the uranium enrichment project which goes against the [UN] Security Council's resolutions, and proves Iran's lack of cooperation with the IAEA's effort to clear up heavy suspicions over the military goals of Iran's plan," the statement continued.

Israel also expressed concern over the Syrian military facility bombed in September 2007 and was expecting the IAEA "to continue investigating, including visiting other sites to which Syria is currently blocking access."

Earlier Friday, experts said a recent report by the UN nuclear watchdog which stated that Iran has slowed down its uranium enrichment program neglected to underscore the fact that Teheran already had enough fissile material to produce an atomic bomb.

The recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report states that inspectors uncovered 209 kilograms of low-enriched uranium that the Iranians had failed to declare, which brings the total amount that Teheran has so far enriched to over a ton, enough, with additional purification, to produce a nuclear weapon, officials told the New York Times Thursday.

independent weapons experts told the paper that they were surprised by the figures and criticized the IAEA for conducting inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities only once a year.

"It's worse than we thought. It's alarming that the actual production was underreported by a third," said Gary Milhollin, the director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.

"You have enough atoms" to make a bomb, a senior UN official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The IAEA report, which was made public Thursday, stated that the new assessment of the total amount of uranium enriched by Iran factors in 171 kilograms of newly-produced material and 839 kilograms of old production. In the past, however, the agency had only reported 630 kilograms of old production.

Note to Bibi - a Livni-less government is required.