Posted on 11/29/2004 11:27:08 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA
AEA OKs Iran Nuke-Freeze Measures Monday, November 29, 2004
VIENNA, Austria — The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency passed a toned-down resolution Monday on policing Iran's commitment to freeze all programs linked to uranium enrichment in an effort to defuse a dispute that had threatened to go to the Security Council (search).
However, confusion over what the freeze encompassed appeared to give Iran loopholes in interpreting its commitments. The vote by the International Atomic Energy Agency (search ) board came after a senior Iranian official seemed to cast doubt on his country's latest commitment to a total suspension of nuclear activities capable of producing weapons-grade uranium.
The United States, which maintains Iran (search) is trying to make nuclear arms, accused Tehran of representing a "growing threat to peace and security" and said that if it failed to find international consensus to have Iran referred to the U.N. Security Council, it could do it itself.
At issue is whether Iran has promised not to operate any of its centrifuges that spin gas into uranium for fuel or for use in nuclear weapons. European nations say Iran agreed not to operate any centrifuges at all, but Iran has said it wanted to use 20 centrifuges for research purposes.
Diplomats from the European Union and elsewhere said the Iranian commitment — sent by letter to the IAEA in Vienna on Sunday — fulfilled demands that Tehran include centrifuges in its total suspension of uranium-enrichment programs.
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I'd trust the UN "watchdog agency" and the UN just about as much as I'd trust a fox to guard a chicken coop.
after the UN was so effective with the whole Saddam weapons thing
you can expect mushroom clouds for sure now
IAEA says Iranians being good boys now ping!
Says they promise not to play with the nasty toys any more! Yeah, right.....and the moon is going to fall out of the sky into the ocean!
Idiots. They may as well get Jimma Carter to do the inspections. Sheeesh!
The Un should be renamed Comedy Central,, it's a complete Joke!!
Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
I would rather be labeled a ROGUE nation than hangout with these Gangsters!
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