International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei does not need any authority beyond the IAEA to deal with IranÂ’s nuclear dossier, IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said on Thursday. | Don't you just love the way ElBaradei and the IAEA insist they alone should set policy on countries' nuclear programs? Security Council? What Security Council? Everything is under control, move along please. He did the same |
| a patently false statement, but we know what she means |
There have been some failures in Iran’s nuclear activities over the past 18 years, she said. “It’s like a puzzle. When some pieces do not exist, we need further cooperation from Iran to get a complete picture of its activities.” A country which is a member of the IAEA should cooperate with the agency, but the IAEA cannot expect forced cooperation, she observed.
Fleming stated that the IAEA intends to give the world a true and precise picture of IranÂ’s nuclear activities, and in order to do so, has asked Iran to help it a little more than is legally required.
| How sweet. |
ElBaradei says that there are still some ambiguities in regard to Iran’s nuclear activities and as long as these ambiguities are not cleared up, the world will be suspicious of Iran’s nuclear program, she added.“ElBaradei wants full transparency from Iran so that IAEA inspectors can resolve the remaining issues. We can only resolve the issue with the help of Iran and only when Iran announces readiness to cooperate with the agency’s inspectors beyond the legal book,” she said in response to a question on what ElBaradei meant by ‘full transparency’.
| and in the meanwhile, all you other countries just go sit down until teacher calls on you. Ooops, bell rang - dismissed for the day little dears. |
“But since the Iranian delegation requested that the (anti-Iranian) links be removed, we took them off of the website,” she explained. However, the links to the Western websites are still on the IAEA’s official website.
| Ooopsie... |
Asked whether the IAEA would give Iranian TV permission to conduct interviews with the agency’s inspectors in another country, Fleming replied, “Yes, if that country allowed you to do that.”
Obviously, the inspectors will not reveal confidential information, she explained, adding that the inspectors in the BBC documentary had not violated agency regulations and both ElBaradei and IAEA Deputy Director General Olli Heinonen had seen the documentary.