AEA Finds no Proof of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program

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In its April 28 report, the International Atomic Energy Agency mentioned the UNSC mandate to Iran of last February:

			' • re-establish full and sustained suspension of all enrichment  				related and reprocessing activities,
			including research and development, to be verified by the  				Agency;
			
			• reconsider the construction of a research reactor moderated by  				heavy water;
			
			• ratify promptly and implement in full the Additional Protocol;
			
			• pending ratification, continue to act in accordance with the  				provisions of the Additional
			Protocol which Iran signed on 18 December 2003;
			
			• implement transparency measures, as requested by the Director  				General, including in GOV/2005/67, which extend beyond the  				formal requirements of the Safeguards Agreement 				and Additional Protocol, and include such access to individuals,  				documentation relating to procurement, dual use equipment,  				certain military-owned workshops and research and 				development as the Agency may request in support of its ongoing  				investigations.
			
			Despite not being fully in compliance with these demands, Iran  				maintains that it is in fact fulfilling its obligations under  				the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty.
			
			The IAEA found no smoking gun. 
			
			Here is its conclusion, which others will not quote for you at  				such length:
			
			' 33. All the nuclear material declared by Iran to the Agency is  				accounted for. Apart from the small quantities previously  				reported to the Board, the Agency has found no other undeclared  				nuclear material in Iran. However, gaps remain in the Agency’s  				knowledge with respect to the scope and 				content of Iran’s centrifuge programme. Because of this, and  				other gaps in the Agency’s knowledge, including the role of the  				military in Iran’s nuclear programme, the Agency is unable to  				make progress in its efforts to provide assurance about the  				absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran.
			
			34. After more than three years of Agency efforts to seek  				clarity about all aspects of Iran’s nuclear 				programme, the existing gaps in knowledge continue to be a  				matter of concern. '
			
			This ambiguity is being twisted by the Bush administration to  				make it seem as though Iran has done something illegal. The  				report can be read to say that there is no evidence that Iran is  				doing anything illegal.
			
			In fact, under the NPT, countries do have the right to do the  				sort of experiments Iran is doing. Most of the complaints are  				not about substance but about something else.

Let’s see what Israel and Washington have to pull out next… btw why doesn’t the IAEA look into Israel who is sitting there with 400 nukes.

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Iran agreed to intrusive inspections by IAEA, if its case is not forwarded to UN security council.
For all of those who have been blaming Iran for hiding its nuclear weapons program, this should be a welcome gesture. But just like in the case of Iraq, their blame-game is only to "punish" the audacity of them for daring to oppose Zionist/American game-plans in Middle East. Now Americans are saying that Iranians are merely "playing games" (this is the term Conny used).

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WASHINGTON, April 30, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Seeking to forge a unified stance against Iran, the Bush administration is increasingly resorting to the same diplomatic rhetoric it used in the run-up to the Iraq war, invoking the “coalition of the willing,” “UN credibility” and “weapons of mass destruction” clichés.

Nearly four years after President George W. Bush warned the UN it risked becoming “irrelevant” unless it dealt with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, his administration is billing the showdown with Iran as a new test of UN mettle, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Sunday, April 30.

The report also accused Tehran of backing “terrorist” groups in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.

In the run-up to the war, Bush and top administration officials repeatedly tried to link the Saddam regime to Al-Qaeda.

But an official investigation into the September 11 attacks found no links between the two, refuting a major war rationale.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell had admitted that he had seen “no smoking gun [or] concrete evidence” of ties between Saddam and Al-Qaeda.

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hayn? no smoking gun? they must have “transparent-smoke-ammunition” :hmmm: They can’t be so innocent, I know they are hiding their programs of WMD under ground somewhere…