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IAEA: Confidence in Iran's Nuclear Program Has Eroded
VOICE OF AMERICA ^ | 25 November 2004 | By Marlene Smith

Posted on 11/25/2004 1:40:43 PM PST by sure_fine

The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has exempted some centrifuges from its commitment to freeze uranium enrichment and lacks trustworthiness because of past concealment and delays in disclosing information. The IAEA board of governors in Vienna, is to decide whether to censure Iran for its conduct.

IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky told reporters outside the board meeting that the issue of Iran's nuclear program was by no means closed.

"The two most important issues are as we've said for some time, to explain the contamination that we've seen on the enriched uranium particles from environmental samples, there are still some unanswered questions as to how those came to be where they were," he said. "And the other issue is the so-called P 2 centrifuge program that Iran has there's some unanswered questions about the nature and the extent of that program, particularly what happened between 1995 and 2002 and around 1995 Iran got the designs for the P2 and they say that they didn't take any action and they say they didn't do any work on the P2 until 2002. We need to see more documentation and more corroboration to support that statement, so far we haven't had enough to satisfy ourselves that there was no action taken in those years."

Mr. Gwozdecky said he hopes the 35-nation IAEA board will reach a consensus on Iran later this week.

The IAEA says its wants to do independent sampling in Pakistan to confirm the actual source of contaminated equipment in Iran. Tehran claims the contamination was already on equipment it bought on the nuclear black market.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: axisofevil; axisofweasels; iaea; iran; irannukes; napalminthemorning; nukes; proliferation; religionofpeace; wot
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1 posted on 11/25/2004 1:40:43 PM PST by sure_fine
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To: sure_fine
Good grief.
2 posted on 11/25/2004 1:46:04 PM PST by The KG9 Kid (Semper Fi!)
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To: sure_fine
The IAEA board of governors in Vienna, is to decide whether to censure Iran for its conduct.

Give them their well earned time for crying out loud, for no doubt after the 5th nuclear warhead hit's Israel, why, their decision will be firm for censure.

3 posted on 11/25/2004 1:52:54 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: sure_fine
Do tell.
4 posted on 11/25/2004 1:56:26 PM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: sure_fine

How about the IAEA "passes censure" against North Korea too so we can get back to saving the world from global warming and giving everybody in the world access to American health care?


5 posted on 11/25/2004 1:58:06 PM PST by Veritas et equitas ad Votum (If the Constitution "lives and breathes", it dies.)
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To: Veritas et equitas ad Votum

/s


6 posted on 11/25/2004 1:58:28 PM PST by Veritas et equitas ad Votum (If the Constitution "lives and breathes", it dies.)
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To: sure_fine
WORLDWIDE CONFIDENCE IN THE IAEA and the ElBaradei "We've-Got-IEAE-Thermonuclear-Weapons-for-Any-Islamic-Terrorist Shell Game"

Intermission at ElBaradei's "We've-Got-IEAE-Thermonuclear-Weapons-for-Any-Islamic-Terrorist" Show


7 posted on 11/25/2004 2:04:55 PM PST by Diogenesis (El)
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To: sure_fine
"Confidence" in Iran's nuclear program?

You'd have to be insane or part of the U.N. to even use that kind of terminology.

Hey dope-heads: I've never worked in international relations, I've never been a diplomat by profession. I've never studied the intricacies of nuclear power generation. I've never taken a course on the Islamic mind. But even I can see the damned obvious.

Iran wants the bomb. They've always wanted it. What kind of moron do you have to be not to know that?

8 posted on 11/25/2004 2:13:23 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: sure_fine

Eroded?

IAEA is a joke.


9 posted on 11/25/2004 2:23:02 PM PST by demlosers
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To: sure_fine

There's a shocker!


10 posted on 11/25/2004 2:27:21 PM PST by rdl6989 (4 More Years! 4 More Years!)
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To: sure_fine

***The IAEA board of governors in Vienna, is to decide whether to censure Iran for its conduct.***



Ah, something else to dither over.


11 posted on 11/25/2004 2:27:39 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus

There are men in the world..and then there are mice.


12 posted on 11/25/2004 2:56:35 PM PST by samadams2000
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

heh... y'think? ;')


13 posted on 11/25/2004 3:10:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: sure_fine
The IAEA might as well stamp "STUPID" on their foreheads because there isn't one of them who has half a brain. El Baradei should have had his walking papers long ago.

I believe on their resumes it must ask: How gullible and naive are you?
14 posted on 11/25/2004 3:10:39 PM PST by Ginifer
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To: sure_fine

My own confidence in Iran's assurances hasn't eroded one iota, but I didn't have any.


15 posted on 11/25/2004 3:35:37 PM PST by RBroadfoot
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bomb the hell out of Iran before they can bomb us or Israel.


http://www.theconservativerepublican.com/ThomasJefferson.html


16 posted on 11/25/2004 4:12:39 PM PST by CaliRepublican97 (Conservative, gun toting, anti-abortion, anti-gay and proud of it)
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To: The KG9 Kid
Iran Back Peddles?!
 
 
 Suprised?!
 
THE ENEMY IS
Appeasement is not an option.
 
iaea.jpg
 IRRELEVANT & MALIGNANT

17 posted on 11/25/2004 4:50:29 PM PST by Rain-maker
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To: sure_fine

The IAEA speaks? They are a complete joke!


18 posted on 11/25/2004 4:57:56 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: sure_fine
What!? The Iranian mullahs LIED!!??? Oh, for f*ck's sake IAEA (UN) what did you think they'd do? "...b-but they said they'd stop it...they said they told us everything..." They sound like one of my stepdaughters.
19 posted on 11/25/2004 5:54:26 PM PST by infidel29 (America is GREAT because she is GOOD, the moment she ceases to be GOOD, she ceases to be GREAT - B.F)
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You'd better put your stepdaughters on Norplant pronto. ROFLMAO.


20 posted on 11/25/2004 7:42:50 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
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