Posted on 06/23/2008 8:32:09 PM PDT by mojito
Following are excerpts from an interview with IAEA Director-General Dr. Muhammad Al-Baradei, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on June 20, 2008.
Muhammad Al-Baradei: If Iran wants to turn to the production of nuclear weapons, it must leave the NPT, expel the IAEA inspectors, and then it would need at least... Considering the number of centrifuges and the quantity of uranium Iran has...
Interviewer: How much time would it need?
Muhammad Al-Baradei: It would need at least six months to one year. Therefore, Iran will not be able to reach the point where we would wake up one morning to an Iran with a nuclear weapon.
Interviewer: Excuse me, I would like to clarify this for our viewers. If Iran decides today to expel the IAEA from the country, it will need six months...
Muhammad Al-Baradei: Or one year, at least...
Interviewer:... to produce [nuclear] weapons?
Muhammad Al-Baradei: It would need this period to produce a weapon, and to obtain highly-enriched uranium in sufficient quantities for a single nuclear weapon.
[...]
In my view, a military strike would be the worst thing possible. It would turn the Middle East into a ball of fire.
Interviewer: It would be worse than sanctions?
Muhammad Al-Baradei: Much worse, because a military strike would mean, first and foremost, that even if Iran does not produce nuclear weapons today, it would implement a so-called "crash course," or an accelerated plan to produce a nuclear weapon, with the agreement and blessing of all the Iranians – even the Iranians living in the West.
[...]
Interviewer: Dr. Al-Baradei, what do the Iranian officials tell you when you confront them about the need for more transparency?
Muhammad Al-Baradei: They say there will be more transparency, but at the end of the day, I'd rather wait to see this transparency.
[...]
I always think of resigning in the event of a military strike.
Interviewer: You will resign in the event that...
Muhammad Al-Baradei: If military force is used, I would conclude that there is no mechanism left for me to defend.
Interviewer: This is a threat directed at the Americans – if you strike, I will resign.
Muhammad Al-Baradei: I am not doing this for material profit. If I was working in the private sector, I would... I am doing this out of the conviction that I am defending shared values. If we deviate from these shared values...
Interviewer: So there is no justification for an attack...
Muhammad Al-Baradei: The day I believe that the international system has begun to collapse is the day I will resign.
[...]
Interviewer: If the world reaches a consensus that there is no solution but to attack Iran, would you still resign? What if Europe, America, and the entire West agree that the only resolution is a military one?
Muhammad Al-Baradei: I don't think that what we are seeing today in Iran poses a clear, imminent, and immediate danger.
Interviewer: But in a year or two, it could become...
Muhammad Al-Baradei: If this happens, it will be a different story, but if a military strike is launched against Iran now, in my opinion, I will have no choice but to...
Interviewer: So there is no justification for a strike against Iran today.
Muhammad Al-Baradei: None whatsoever. There will be no point for me to continue doing my work if military force is used at present.
I would presume your country and my country likes him because they monitor communications between him and Iran.
If it was some other liar for Iran, they would have to recreate the networks.
This way, they know who to kill.
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If Bush attacked Iran after the elections.......It would be like snatching victory out of the jaws of defeat.....:)
The Obamination gets elected Potus, and it is January 20, 2009.
The Obamination has just said his version of being sworn in as Potus:
“ I do solemnly swear [or affirm] that I will not support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, I will not bear true faith and allegiance to the same: that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and I will not faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me Allah. ”
As the Obamination starts to speak, his Pentagon guy, Muhammed Rashheed, with the football tells the Obamination, that shorty after he was sworn in, Israel destroyed the political and military assets of Iran and Syria. The Mossad has killed every al Queda leader in Iran, Iraq, fghanistan, Europe and America.
Also, Israeli leaders on world wide tv are showing and documenting the Obamination’s full Islamofascist connections and most of the rats in Congress. They have demanded the surrender of those members of Congress and the Obamination to Israel and Iraq for abetting the killing of innocent Israelis and Iranians by supporting Islamofascists.
George $oreA$$ and his family members and various phoney non profit leaders are in Israel at this time being tried as War Criminals.
At this time GW gets up with Laura and they wave goodbye to the Obamination and his Obamabots as they leave for Texas.
IAEA Director-General Dr. Muhammad Al-Baradei
he is a shill for Iran.
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