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| IAEA chief denies Iran influenced reports |
| 2004-12-05 |
| UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei has denied charges that he collaborated with Iran ahead of publishing written reports on his investigation of the Islamic republic's controversial nuclear program. Mr ElBaradei says members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are never shown reports on individual members, "not the least of course an inspected country". He was reacting to news reports that he had heeded Iranian demands to drop mentions of IAEA requests to visit the Parchin military site and Iran's use of the sensitive material beryllium in a report he had made to the IAEA board in September. The United States wants the IAEA to take Iran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions. The US alleges that Iran is running a covert nuclear weapons program. But Mr ElBaradei says the "jury is still out" on whether Iran's program is peaceful or not. Mr ElBaradei characterised as "gutter accusations" reports that he gives Iran advance looks at his reports. The reports are filed ahead of IAEA board of governors meetings that decide how tough the agency will be on Iran over its nuclear program. He says "we don't leak (special IAEA reports on Iran) to any single person outside the 10 or 20 people who are involved in the process" of drafting the text at IAEA headquarters. "We don't negotiate our report . . . at the end of the day not a single paragraph is shown to any single country until the report is out," Mr ElBaradei said. He says the IAEA did not "even discuss" the report ahead of time with Iran beyond technical requests for information. |
| Posted by:God Save The World |
| #8 Nuclear aspirations of Islamist autocracies are being green-lighted by the UN while they simultaneously seek to thwart all attempts at stopping them. And why should anyone be surprised that this is the policy being adopted? |
| Posted by: very anonymous 2004-12-05 3:12:26 PM |
| #7 IAEA chief denies Iran influenced reports No, never! Iran hasn't been making the least attempt to influence Europe's perception of their nuclear Asked if there was a guarantee for Europeans to fulfill commitments they had made in relations to Iran, Asefi said, "Their words are their guarantee." "If they (Europeans) fail to keep their words and fulfill their commitments, then the Islamic Republic will no longer be faithful to its commitments, too," Asefi said. As to ElBaradei. I hereby nominate him for the Kofi Annan honorary "Most Effective Leadership in the role of Assuring Regional Stability" award. It couldn't be any worse, even if ElBaradei leaked the verbatim contents of all negotiations to Iran. Whether it is a case of malfeasance or sheer incompetence, the results are identical. Nuclear aspirations of Islamist autocracies are being green-lighted by the UN while they simultaneously seek to thwart all attempts at stopping them. Annan and ElBaradei both must shoulder the blame for whatever Jihadist nuclear atrocity arises out of their obstructionism. May they rot in hell. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-12-05 2:49:27 PM |
| #6 While at it let's get rid of all the 3rd world "diplomats" who are nothong but committed crooks and thieves! |
| Posted by: Glereper Craviter7929 2004-12-05 11:41:38 AM |
| #5 Just give them and the rest of the UN a one way ticket to Amsterdam or somewhere like it ... No, no, no. Dar-Es-Salaam. It's about time the UN figured out what actually goes on in the Third World. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-12-05 11:29:35 AM |
| #4 Nah, let Baradei and Kofi stay. Just give them and the rest of the UN a one way ticket to Amsterdam or somewhere like it and wish them well while muttering good riddance. |
| Posted by: RJB in JC MO 2004-12-05 10:51:00 AM |
| #3 "He says 'we don’t leak...' " Does anyone else find this curious, in view of the pre-election Al Qaqaa leaks? El Baradei and Annan both need to go ... NOW. |
| Posted by: doc 2004-12-05 8:51:27 AM |
| #2 Worthless as all other regular denials of the same sort from the same Creed. |
| Posted by: Wo 2004-12-05 7:03:22 AM |
| #1 Sorry I can't trust the "word" of a member of the RoP. Prove it El Baradei. Your word is meaninless. |
| Posted by: FlameBait 2004-12-05 1:02:12 AM |