Posted on 03/01/2005 6:15:09 PM PST by Stoat
Iran blocks UN nuclear inspectionsIran has refused to let UN nuclear inspectors follow up on a first visit to the Parchin military facility, where Washington charges Tehran is simulating testing of atomic weapons, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said. Iran has also refused to answer IAEA questions about the Lavizan site in Tehran where there was suspicion of nuclear activities, Pierre Goldschmidt, the agency's deputy director-general for safeguards, told a meeting in Vienna of the 35-nation IAEA board of governors. Iran told the IAEA in a message, dated from Sunday, that "the expectation of the Safeguards Department in visiting specified zone and points in Parchin Complex are fulfilled and there is no justification for any additional visit," Mr Goldschmidt said, according to a text of his comments distributed to journalists. IAEA inspectors want to return to the sprawling Parchin site, which they first visited in January, since they have only seen five out of what are a much larger number of buildings. Mr Goldschmidt said that "out of the four areas identified by the agency to be of potential interest, the agency was permitted to select one area," according to a copy of his comments distributed to the press. "The agency was requested to minimise the number of buildings to be visited in that area and selected five buildings," he said. Concerning Lavizan, where the site has been completely razed by the Iranians, the Iranians refused to answer IAEA questions about "dual-use material and equipment that could be useful in uranium enrichment and conversion activities." The agency had asked to "discuss this matter in detail with two officials who had been involved in the procurement activities" of the Physics Research Centre located at the site from 1989-1998. But in Sunday's note, Iran said the centre was "not involved in activities" to be declared under nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) safeguards and that Iran did not have to declare the dual-use items which "could be used in conventional activities." |
All options remain on the table!
Here we go again "sigh"
Iran surely can't be hiding anything, we all know they are interested in nuclear energy for civilian purposes, surely they are. (/sarcasm)
Well, here we go again. Are they banking on the impotence and uselessness of the U.N. as Saddam did?
The New York Times International U.N. Says Iran Blocked Investigation of Nuclear Program
Iran denies monitors access to military site
I sure hope so. If I recall, it didn't work out so good for Saddam.
No kidding.
I could swear I just saw this same crap a few years ago.
I'll wait until I hear the name "Hans Blix" before I start hurling.
LVM
Are you calling Iran, Russia and the entire Left liars? We must allow them their right to pursue peaceful nuke technology.
{/heavy sarcasm}
They probably have deluded themselves into believing their own propaganda, that Islam will rise up against the Evil Dogs Of The West and the Zionist Entity and will crush us all with the might of their scimitars and their covertly acquired Russian / German / French nuke equipment.
They will die without honor and those who don't will run home crying to their ugly mothers.
Please! Anything but that!
If we can't verify that they are not working on nuclear weapons, we have a big problem since they already have a delivery system.
Think they already have a nuke, they sure act like it. Careful with that Axe Eugene.
Don't worry about it! Putin says we can trust 'em! And he wouldn't lie, would he?
Isn't this exactly the way NK was acting before they finally admitted to having a nuke?
Vladdy the Impaler: We don't know what happened to those nukes, can you give us some more money to secure what we have left ?
This is the best news of the day. I really don’t want mullahs to give up this bomb thing of theirs. It’s a necessary ingredient for democratization recipe of Iran. At least it appears that way to keep US involved and engaged in mullahs termination.
Well sportsfans, here we go again. This is starting to make me weary.............I need a Sam Adams Lager, make it two.....Does the word "bombs" mean anything to these "peace loving muslims.". We can retool Bomb Central to get the production lines rolling again.......... Code name "Operation No more Iran."..............
Iran is preparing the bomb.
Anything to the contrary is willful blindness.
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