Issue No. 918, 24 June 2011 Articles & Other Documents: Featured Article: Pentagon Gets Cyberwar Guidelines 1. Amano Invited to Visit Iran’s Nuclear Sites 2. Saudi Arabia May Use Economic Clout to Squeeze Iran: Prince 3. Ahmadinejad Insists Iran Not Seeking Nuclear Bomb 4. Concrete Result Needed for Any Iran Visit: IAEA Chief 5. N. Korea could Test-Launch Missile at New Launch Site this Year: Expert 6. Spy Chief Says Policy Failures Dealt Blow to N. Korea's Heir Apparent 7. China Says No Cyber Warfare with U.S. 8. N.K. May Have Grid-Disabling Nuke 9. 'Proliferation Could Lead to Pyongyang’s Demise' 10. Obama Extends National Emergency Against N. Korea 11. India will get Russian N-Sub by December 12. Progressive Steps Needed to De-legitimise N-Weapons: PM 13. Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal Not at Risk, Says Blake 14. Nuclear Experts Killed in Russia Plane Crash Helped Design Iran Facility 15. Chavez's Odd Silence Raises Questions 16. Pentagon Gets Cyberwar Guidelines 17. Senate Bill Echoes House Questions about Obama's Nuclear Strategy 18. No Early-Intercept Defense 19. AFGSC to Renew Conventional Capabilities 20. Nuclear Terrorism Can Cause another Fukushima: Expert 21. S. Korea Does Not Need Nuclear Weapons ― Yet 22. Mind Your Own Nukes Please! 23. All Signs Say Iran Is Racing toward a Nuclear Bomb Welcome to the CPC Outreach Journal. As part of USAF Counterproliferation Center’s mission to counter weapons of mass destruction through education and research, we’re providing our government and civilian community a source for timely counterproliferation information. This information includes articles, papers and other documents addressing issues pertinent to US military response options for dealing with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats and countermeasures. It’s our hope this information resource will help enhance your counterproliferation issue awareness. 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Reproduction for private use or commercial gain is subject to original copyright restrictions. All rights are reserved. United States Air Force Counterproliferation Research & Education | Maxwell AFB, Montgomery AL | Phone: 334.953.7538 | Fax: 334.953.7530 Tehran Times – Iran Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Amano Invited to Visit Iran’s Nuclear Sites Tehran Times Political Desk TEHRAN - Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Fereydoun Abbasi Davani has said that he has invited IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano to visit Iran’ nuclear facilities. Abbasi Davani made the announcement after a meeting with Amano in Vienna on Tuesday on the sidelines of a five-day Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety, which opened on June 20. Abbasi Davani said that he invited Amano “and his colleagues to come to visit anywhere they like in all our nuclear installations,” Reuters reported. He also said that he had held “very good” and “transparent” talks with Amano. According to Reuters, Iran’s nuclear chief said that the two sides pledged to resolve problems through more dialogue in future but did not give any details on what was discussed. “We don’t have a difference of view,” he stated. On January 15 and January 16, 2011, diplomats from Egypt, Cuba, Syria, Algeria, Venezuela, Oman, and the Arab League visited the Natanz enrichment facility and the Arak heavy water reactor in response to Iran’s invitation. Some members of the UN Security Council and the European Union had also been invited but decided not to send representatives. The main bone of contention between Tehran and the West is Iran’s uranium enrichment program. Iran says all its nuclear activities are totally peaceful, and, as an IAEA member and an NPT signatory, it has the legal right to produce nuclear fuel for its research reactors and nuclear power plants. http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=242864 (Return to Articles and Documents List) International Business Times Saudi Arabia May Use Economic Clout to Squeeze Iran: Prince June 22, 2011 Saudi Arabia may be forced to use its oil policy and enormous economic clout as a way to foil Iran’s nuclear power program and regional ambitions, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal reportedly told a private group of British and American servicemen at an airbase in England that "Iran is very vulnerable in the oil sector, and it is there that more could be done to squeeze the current government," Turki, a former Saudi ambassador to the U.S. and U.K. as well as the former chief of Saudi intelligence, currently holds no official position in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia is greatly concerned by Iran on many levels. Tehran, a Shia Muslim power, is seeking to expand its influence in the Mid-East, putting it face to face against the Saudis, who are ruled by a Sunny Muslim elite. For example, the Iranians have repeatedly condemned the Sunni rulers of Bahrain who have cracked down brutally on protesters (most of whom are part of that nation’s Shia majority); while the Saudis have steadfastly supported and aided the Bahrain royal family. Issue No. 918, 24 June 2011 United States Air Force Counterproliferation Research & Education | Maxwell AFB, Montgomery AL | Phone: 334.953.7538 | Fax: 334.953.7530 According to WSJ, Turki also told that assembly that Tehran’s "meddling and destabilizing efforts in countries with Shiite majorities, such as Iraq and Bahrain, as well as those countries with significant Shiite communities…must come to an end. Saudi Arabia will oppose any and all of Iran's actions in other countries because it is Saudi Arabia's position that Iran has no right to meddle in other nations' internal affairs." The Saudis believe that Iran is supporting the anti-government movements in both Bahrain and Yemen (two of Saudi Arabia’s next door neighbors). The Saudis are also worried about Iranian support of the Hezbollah in Lebanon – Hezbollah is on the verge of taking a majority position in Beirut’s cabinet. Even within OPEC, the Saudis have urged other members to raise output in order to lower global oil prices, while Iran has strongly resisted this decision. Turki reportedly said that the Saudis can easily compensate for lower reduction in oil production by Iran, adding that Tehran’s economy and finances would be paralyzed by falling oil exports. "To put this into perspective, Saudi Arabia has so much [spare] production capacity -- nearly 4 million barrels [per] day -- that we could almost instantly replace all of Iran's oil production," the prince said. Perhaps of greater concern to Riyadh is Iran’s incipient nuclear program (which Tehran claims is being developed only for peaceful purposes). Turki said: "It is in our interest that Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon, for their doing so would compel Saudi Arabia, whose foreign relations are now so fully measured and well assessed, to pursue policies that could lead to untold and possibly dramatic consequences.” The Saudi will also seek to challenge Iranian influence in Iraq (a Shia-majority country). "There are people and groups in Iraq that are, as much as they deny it, completely beholden to Iran, and that is not only unacceptable, but it is bad for the future of an ethnically and religiously diverse country," Turki said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/167646/20110622/saudi-arabia-iran-prince-turki-tehran-opec.htm (Return to Articles and Documents List) Space Daily.com Ahmadinejad Insists Iran Not Seeking Nuclear Bomb By Staff Writers Tehran, Agence France-Presse (AFP) June 23, 2011 Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted Thursday that Iran is not seeking to build an atom bomb but defiantly added that should it decide to do so "no one can do a damn thing." "When we say we do not want to make bomb it means we do not want to," Ahmadinejad was quoted by the state television website as saying. "If we want to make a bomb we are not afraid of anyone and we are not afraid to announce it, no one can do a damn thing," he said during a ceremony inaugurating a sewage treatment plant in southern Tehran. Iranian officials have staunchly denied Western suspicions that Tehran's nuclear enrichment programme is masking a drive for atomic weapons. Parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani last year reiterated the denial by quoting a previous fatwa by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in the Islamic republic's affairs, which said "using weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear (arms) is haram (forbidden)." Issue No. 918, 24 June 2011 United States Air Force Counterproliferation Research & Education | Maxwell AFB, Montgomery AL | Phone: 334.953.7538 | Fax: 334.953.7530 Ahmadinejad's comments come two weeks after the chief of Iranian atomic organisation Fereydoon Abbasi Davani announced plans to triple Tehran's capacity to enrich uranium to 20 percent level in a move Washington deemed "provocative." Despite being targeted by four sets of UN Security Council sanctions over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, Iran remains adamant that it will push ahead with its nuclear enrichment programme.