Iranian Arab Energy Aid (IAEA) is Pro-Iran
November 6, 2007
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UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should be titled the Iranian Arab Energy Aid.
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‘IAEA chief playing into Iranian hands’
Mark Weiss and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST
November 5, 2007
The International Atomic Energy Agency is not only neglecting its duties of preventing nuclear proliferation, but acting as an obstacle to those trying to preserve the status quo, the Foreign Ministry’s Director-General Aharon Abramovitch said on Monday.
Addressing the Saban Forum in Jerusalem Abramovitch said the UN nuclear watchdog provides an excuse to states that prefer not to join the international community’s efforts to prevent a nucle
ar Iran.
Israeli officials believe the head of IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei is not forceful enough in the periodic reports he presents to the UN on the Iranian nuclear program.
By stressing Iranian cooperation with the inspectors and the need for more time, Jerusalem believes that Elbaredi is playing into Iranian hands.
The IAEA chief h as also come under sharp US criticism over moves that W
ashington sees as appeasing Iran – particularly a deal he negotiated for Teheran to explain outstanding questions over its nuclear program.
He defended the strategy in an interview with the state-run Egyptian daily Al-Ahram as a test for Iran to “show good intentions.”
“This situation, which might continue for two or three months, is an investment in peace,” said Baradei.
He warned that the standoff between the West and Iran over the nuclear issue was adding “more fuel to a burning fire” in the Middle East.
“The area is going through one of its worst moments and we cannot add more confrontations.”
“In my opinion, what we should do now is to encourage Iran to cooperate because any attempt to isolate Iran … means the hard-liners will take over the driver’s seat,” he said.
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By Lying about Its Nuclear Activities, Iran Has Forfeited Its Right to Enrichment for Peaceful Purposes
Jim Hoagland
November 5, 2007
Iran is working to produce a 20-to-50-pound stockpile of enriched uranium that it can use to build atomic weapons within eight to ten weeks, once it decides to do so – and has consistently lied to the UN about those efforts.
The IAEA and the UN Security Council have determined that Iran has lied about its nuclear activities and has therefore forfeited its right to enrichment for peaceful purposes. That Iran has gone to great, secretive lengths
to create and push forward a bomb-building capability is not a Bush delusion.
But neither is it fantasy to say, as do Russia and China, that the Iranians have had great difficulty in getting their system of 2,952 centrifuges at Natanz, south of Tehran,
to work effectively.
(Washington Post)
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