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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 altered the title for space reasons.
That fits the time line speculated on today by Bolton. He said a strike by Israel this year was inevitable but would take place after the election and before the new president was sworn in.
What a lot of double-speak. Iran can have nukes by year end, but might as well let them do it, for the good of the Int’l system - even if the “Int’l system” is made to look like a complete ass.
He might as well resign for all the good he is doing.
Of course there is no need for worry. Obama will simply sit down and have a friendly talk with the powers that be in Iran, and all hostilities will cease.
This guy keeps flip-flopping on his Iranian findings.
Thank goodness he has a Nobel Peace Prize.
Ping.
All the pieces of the puzzle are coming together nicely and luckily Israel is ready to act.I CAN NOT wait to hear that little monkey Imanutjob squeal after Iran has been set back 10 years technologically. However, the public humiliation is the aspect I will truly delight over.
To Muhammad Al-Baradei: Shut up and go away, you less-than-useless Humpty Dumpty.
Naah. It will be Bush’s last major combat action before he is no longer POTUS. He will not leave Iran to be dealt with by Osamaobama.
Why does al-Baradei talk about “6 months” from now?
Because he wants the U.S. or Israel to fall for Iran’s trap (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2034502/posts?page=48#48) while Bush is still in Office, but preferably *after* the November elections are over so as not to upset the political equation in the U.S.
See the link in post #13.
El Baradei’s email to his sister in Iran: “So our little rouse against the stupid dhimmis is working.”
So if we move on Iran, we get two for the price of one. Imanutjob is out of business and Al-Bloweveryday will resign.
I do not trust either one of them as far as I could throw them.
Let’s translate this into language that liberals can understand.
“It’s perfectly safe to have unprotected homosexual sex with an aids carrier, because though HIV infection occurs immediately, it usually takes about 6 months for someone to show that they’re infected with AIDs, and begin having life threatening symptoms.”
How’s that?
Mark
How much money is this usless bastard (Baradei) being paid? He is a rich man and de did not make his money in Egypt!
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It’s laughable that we are taking advice from this guy.
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