UN stands by Iran nuclear report

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The IAEA sees no sign of a nuclear weapons programme so far
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The UN’s nuclear watchdog has rejected sharp US criticism over a report that it has found no evidence Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
America’s top arms control official, John Bolton, said the International Atomic Energy Agency’s widely leaked findings were “impossible to believe”.

He accused the Islamic Republic of a “massive and covert [nuclear] effort”.
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Iran has warned of serious consequences if the IAEA refers its nuclear programme to the UN Security Council.

“I hope we do not reach such a stage because then things could very easily get out of control,” its envoy to the IAEA, Ali Akbar Salehi, told foreign reporters.

“There are many things Iran can do. We have a lot of leverage,” he added without giving details.

The board of governors of the IAEA is due to discuss the report on Iran next Thursday.

The report, which was circulated to officials on Monday, says that Iran has admitted to producing high-grade plutonium but not weapons.

It finds no evidence that Tehran has secretly been developing weapons but nonetheless admonishes the Iranian authorities for being secretive.

“We stand by the report but it’s classified and will be considered at next week’s board meeting,” said IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky.

‘Impossible’

Iran has always claimed its nuclear programme is designed to meet the country’s energy needs.
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Mr Bolton, speaking at a dinner for the US publication American Spectator, launched a fierce attack on Tehran and the IAEA’s report.

A “massive and covert Iranian effort to acquire sensitive nuclear capabilities”, he said, made “sense only as part of a nuclear weapons program”.

“The report nonetheless concluded that ‘no evidence’ had been found of an Iranian nuclear weapons programme… The report’s assertion is simply impossible to believe,” Mr Bolton said.

The tone of Mr Bolton’s statement, BBC Washington correspondent David Bamford says, indicates that the US is prepared to take on the UN’s nuclear body and state contrary conclusions.
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USA is ready to defy IAEA and UN just like it did in iraq’s case. what if USA didn’t get the things its way will it attack iran aswell?

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What and double their daily body count, they can't be that stoooopid surely?

Hang on......this is the Americans we're talking about.

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Americans had previously refused to believe similar assertions by Blix's UN inspectors in Iraq; and insisted that they will find the WMD themselves. Several months and hundreds of US deaths later, there are still no WMD found in Iraq.

Now the start of this same routine with Iran's nuclear program gives rise to two interesting conclusions.

  1. US intelligence don't know what they are doing and feed a whole lot of BS to their masters, who in turn rely on these inaccurate reports to build a case against their political foes.

  2. US hasn't learn anything from the events of the past one year.

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US intelligence=oxymoron stop right there brother.

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I wanted to say CIA… but no one agency can make so many mistakes all by itself… so its got to be a bunch of different agencies. Sorry about the mistake. :hehe:

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With the daily beatings they are getting in Iraq, the American's would of course be foolish to open another front, but then again sometimes stupidity has no limits. I just hope the American's are mindful of the past humiliations they have suffered at the hands of Glorious Iran, and it's brothers in Lebanon and elsewhere. :)

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Re: UN stands by Iran nuclear report

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Should we believe the US admin instead? Do they think we are that gullible? :smack: It’s the same rhetoric they spewed about Iraq - what the heck does the admin think, that we’ll believe them this time around as well ??? i’d believe the UN any day over the US particularly after all the lies and deceits woven last time around…anyone remember that Powell speech at the Security Council, the one with all the fancy multimedia stuff and the ‘conclusive’ pictures and the ‘strong’ evidence ? ugh. Makes me wanna puke. All that was a bunch of crock.

Even if Iran does possess nuclear weapons - i would say it’s an act of defense. If other countries can possess them in defiance of Resolutions, then so can Iran.