UN atomic agency team 'denied access' to suspected Iran nuclear site

The Australian ^ | February 22, 2012 | AFP

[John W]

The UN atomic agency said Wednesday that "intensive efforts" by its team visiting Iran on the way forward failed, and that they were denied access to a key military site.

"Intensive efforts were made to reach agreement on a document facilitating the clarification of unresolved issues in connection with Iran's nuclear programme," the International Atomic Energy Agency said.

"Unfortunately, agreement was not reached on this document."

The team requested access both during this visit and during a first trip in late January to the Parchin military site where it suspects suspicious nuclear activities are carried out, but Iran "did not grant permission," it said.

"It is disappointing that Iran did not accept our request to visit Parchin during the first or second meetings," IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said in the statement.

"We engaged in a constructive spirit, but no agreement was reached."

[ClearCase_guy]

In a just world, we would nuke any site within 60 minutes of learning that an investigation team "wasn't allowed" to see what was there.

WHAM!!!

Oh, never mind. I'm sure there's not much there worth seeing. Now, about this facility you have over in the eastern part of Iran ...

[Cyber Liberty]

Color me shocked. I saw this story this morning, and I knew nothing would come of it because the UN guys have no dicks.

[HollyB]

Remember how long this went on with Iraq? And how N Korea has been handled?

[dfwgator]

“You’re bweaking my bawls, Hans...you’re bweaking my bawls.”

[HKMk23]

This is what you get when all you’ve got in your arsenal is hot air, and this outcome was completely predictable, as will be the inevitable response of the Obama Administration: “We are disappointed.”

[Chode]

do I really have to say it???

[dynachrome]

Nah, the war can’t start until sometime in September for the best timing in obozo’s re-election campaign. (sarcasm?)

[mkjessup]

C'mon, this story can't be true, why I recall President George W. Bush stating clearly and without equivocation that Iran "would not be permitted to obtain a nuclear weapons capability" and as we all know, Vice President Dick Cheney and U.N. Ambassador John Bolton strongly urged the President to launch a preemptive strike against Iran (instead of listening to that mealy mouthed amateur SecState Condi Rice who argued against military action) and in November/December 2008, our combination Air Force and Navy strikes with carrier based planes and B-2's from the States decimated the Iranian nuke program and much of their military-industrial infrastructure, and the mullahs ended up hanging from lamp posts in Tehran as the Iranian people rose up in open revolt against their Islamofascist masters.

Don't you all remember this?

Oh yeah. Bush listened to Condi Rice, didn't he?

(Well, it was a nice fantasy)

[onyx]

FReepers?

Time to put this baby to bed tonight.

Less than $1.7 to go!!!

[EEGator]

[doug from upland]

Obama and Hillary will be outraged and express deep concern.

[RedMDer]

[matt04]

In related news, cats meow, water is wet and the sky is blue. Anyone, except most liberals could have seen this coming.

[Drill Thrawl]

[dfwgator]

OK, Hans. I'll show you. Stand to your reft.
Hans Blix: [Moves to the left]
Kim Jong Il: A rittle more.
Hans Blix: [Moves to the left again]
Kim Jong Il: Good.

[Eleutheria5]

That did it. Bigerer and tougherer sanctions for Russia and China to ignore while Obama tells Israel to give them a chance to work. This time the biggestest and toughestest sanctions ever.

[U-238]

This goes under atomic testing lore.At Dimona, when the reactors were being inspected in the 1960s they put up false walls and a fake control room before the inspection.

[Eleutheria5]

Inspected by whom? Israel is not a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran is. So on what basis would the IAEA send inspectors and expect access?

[U-238]

When the United States intelligence community discovered the purpose of the site in the early 1960s, the U.S. government demanded that Israel agree to international inspections. Israel agreed, but on the condition that U.S., rather than International Atomic Energy Agency, inspectors be used, and that Israel would receive advance notice of all inspections