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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IAEA Delegation to Visit Iran January 29-31
2012-01-18
No doubt the Persians, renowned for their hospitality, will be busily tidying the place, putting away clutter and ensuring a comfortable visit to the nicest parts of the country for their visitors. None of those nasty caves and such for their distinguished guests.
[An Nahar] A high-level IAEA delegation is to visit Iran January 29-31 to discuss issues it has over Tehran's nuclear program, Iran's envoy to the U.N. atomic watchdog said Tuesday according to the Fars news agency.

The delegation, to be led by chief inspector Herman Nackaerts, will "negotiate and discuss questions raised by the IAEA," Ali Ashgar Soltanieh was quoted as saying.

Diplomats in Vienna, where the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency is headquartered, had already said Nackaerts and the agency's number two, Rafael Grossi, were going to visit Iran late this month.

They had spoken of a visit starting around January 28 and lasting into the first few days of February.

Soltanieh said the three-day visit finally agreed was "a new sign of the transparency in Iran's nuclear program and activities and in our interaction with the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency."

The trip comes at a moment of high international tensions over Iran's nuclear program.

The IAEA issued a report in November expressing strong suspicions -- but stopping just short of declaring them verified -- that Iran was researching the development and delivery of nuclear weapons.

The West, the United States at the fore, has subsequently ratcheted up sanctions on Iran, threatening its ability to export and get paid for its oil.

The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 is expected next week to announce additional measures said to include a ban on Iranian oil imports.

IAEA diplomats said that, along with Nakaerts, who is Belgian, and Grossi, an Argentine who is IAEA head Yukiya Amano's chief of staff, the delegation will include the agency's senior legal official Peri Lynne Johnson, a U.S. citizen.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Just wondering if the Persian Kennel Club will put on a dog show for these esteemed iaea bums. The Iranian love of dogs is well-documented; just another reason to vaporize their "leadership". It's a dog lovers thing and they don't even begin to get it.
Posted by: Bugs Glomoque3110   2012-01-18 21:28  

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