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...move would be very political and symbolic," says François Heisbourg, a military expert and special adviser to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in Paris. Heisbourg, who helped draft Sarkozy's military plan, predicted France would actually rejoin by the time of a Franco-German summit in March next year...
...Sources: IISS (2); Washington Times (2); BBC; Enterbrain; BBC; Boston Globe
...have said that some of these front companies and bank accounts are thought to be centered in the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states. The U.S. has repeatedly sought help from these countries in shutting down Iranian fronts and financial networks, but with mixed results, at best. The IISS study asserts that the UAE is a "common destination for illicit items and eventually the hub of the Khan network." It adds that Iran is one of the top recipients of non-oil exports from the Emirates, and predicts that "the UAE's relatively lax export controls will no doubt...
...IISS assessment also foresaw new proliferation problems arising from efforts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons program. If those efforts succeed, said Fitzpatrick, "North Korea is going to have a lot of equipment it doesn't need any more. One concern is whether North Korea might feel disposed to trying to sell some of that equipment, particularly in a situation where North Korea's internal structure was beginning to fray, and there wasn't centralized control over nuclear assets." In that case, there would be several nations, among them Iran, who would certainly be interested in acquiring used components...
...IISS also warns that the legacy of the Khan network may yet provide more nasty surprises. "How much help Khan gave Iran and North Korea and whether the Khan network had other customers are questions of intense interest to investigative agencies," it says. Some equipment thought to have been in the network's possession remains unaccounted for. Most ominously, the IISS report suggests that other nations, or even non-state actors such as al-Qaeda, could have received copies of a nuclear-weapon design that the Khan network is known to have peddled to Libya. (The Libyan regime, caught...