Fox News Reporting: Iran's Nuclear Secrets - Iran on Astini News
Sunday, September 18 at 9 p.m. ET
Hosted by Bill Hemmer with reports from Amy Kellogg and Eric Shawn
It is a nightmare scenario -- Iran armed with nuclear weapons.
While Tehran insists its nuclear ambition is strictly for civilian purposes, others contend their intentions will ultimately change an entire region.
This Fox News investigative special looks at the hard facts, going beyond the speculation into the evidence of Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program. We take you inside a shadowy world of murder, cyber-warfare, nuclear physics and old fashioned smuggling.
And we reveal never before seen documents detailing the role of Pakistani nuclear proliferator A.Q. Khan in Iran's nuclear weapons program. In a Fox News exclusive, we present documents, photos and a dramatic confession letter Khan wrote to his wife, detailing how he sold nuclear weapon materials to Libya, North Korea and Iran.
How close is Iran to completing a nuclear bomb? Tune in this weekend, as Bill Hemmer hosts Fox News' explosive investigation: "Iran's Nuclear Secrets." Read more at FoxNews.com.
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EXCLUSIVE: New A.Q. Khan Documents Suggest Pakistan Spread Nuclear Weapon Technology
Documents obtained by Fox News suggest that for decades Pakistan spread nuclear weapon technology around the globe in exchange for cash, political influence and help with its own atomic bomb program. Among those on the other side of the deals: China, Iran, North Korea and Libya.
The charges are contained in two documents written by A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani nuclear arms trafficker long thought to be the mastermind behind an elaborate global supply and procurement network: a thirteen-page confession to government authorities and a dramatic letter hastily written to his wife as an international manhunt tightened around him.
In a Fox News exclusive, never-before-seen Khan photographs and documents will be featured in an upcoming special: "Fox News Reporting: Iran's Nuclear Secrets," airing Sept. 18 at 9 p.m. ET. The documents include the thirteen-page confession, the letter to his wife, and a Pakistani intelligence service report on Khan. The exclusive photographs show the Khans in a variety of intimate settings, including under house arrest. Fox News is also releasing the documents and photographs over the Internet today.
The extent of official Pakistan government involvement with Khan is a matter of intense and at times acrimonious debate among counter-proliferation experts. Was Khan a master criminal operating outside the system—or was he part of the system?
The documents obtained by Fox News are A.Q. Khan's version of events. They should be carefully weighed against other available evidence. But with U.S.-Pakistan relations severely strained by the killing of Usama bin Laden and the imminent draw-down of U.S. troops in neighboring Afghanistan, the question of nuclear-armed Islamabad spreading weapons of mass destruction takes on a new urgency. Read more at FoxNews.com.
