I used to be with the United States government. I had the highest security clearance at one point. I'm now just an academic, so I don't have the same kind of access to information as perhaps I might have had. Like everybody else, I can do my research and find sources that are available to the public.
So I can't tell you that I have intelligence that would go beyond what's out there in the public realm. But if you look at what's out in the public realm, it's pretty compelling, especially when the UN's nuclear watchdog agency says that the one unresolved question is weapons capacity. That was last year, and that was after the intelligence estimate that the United States issued.
You have to have concerns. Beyond that, if you just look from a common sense perspective, the way it has all been so clandestine, the way it has been compartmentalized, there's something.... I believe there had been offers made to the Iranians to help them with enrichment, which would be used strictly for civilian purposes, if they would dismantle their nuclear technology drive. They refused to do it. So I believe there's pretty compelling evidence out there that, as I said, their motives are less than peaceful.
I appreciate that you have pointed out the human rights violations that have been committed against the Bahá'ís, against the Azeris, against the Baluchis. I mean, there is a human rights problem in Iran. I think that context as well has to be taken into account. It's not just the context of Ahmadinejad's statements toward Israel, and their policy towards Israel, but it's the policy of the government vis-à-vis their own people in Iran that has to make us concerned about what really lies behind these statements.