VOA: UN Watchdog Reports 'Significant Progress' in Iran Probe
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday that "significant progress" has been made in the U.N.'s long-running probe into allegations Iran worked to develop nuclear weapons.
Yukiya Amano said he reported to the IAEA's board about his trip to Iran that included visiting the Parchin military site that has been a key focus of the investigation.
Amano said environmental samples were taken at Parchin before his visit in a process that included Iranian representatives "swiping samples." He specified that in some circumstances the IAEA permits countries to participate in verification activities in ways that do not compromise the agency's work.
WNU Editor: Being one who worked in the UN for about 4 years I can only say the following .... when a UN official says that "significant progress" has been made but discloses no details .... it means that they are troubled with what is happening, and they are not going to disclose anything because it will make them foolish. And while I could be wrong about all of this .... and I hope that I am .... from what I am reading these samples were collected by Iranian specialists (not IAEA experts), and the visit of the IAEA chief to the Parchin military site was just a photo-op.
More News On The IAEA Statement That Significant Progress Has Been Made In The Iran Probe
Iranian nuclear experts take Parchin samples without IAEA: IRNA -- Reuters
UN Nuke Agency: Iran's Role in Nuclear Probe Meets Standards -- AP
Iran nuclear deal: IAEA head visits Parchin site -- BBC
UN atomic watchdog hails 'significant progress' in Iran probe -- AFP
UN Nuclear Agency IAEA Makes 'Significant Progress' In Iran Probe -- IBTimes
IAEA Chief Says Significant Progress Made in Probe Into Iran’s Past Nuclear Work -- WSJ
IAEA says Iran inspections deal meets its approval -- Politico
1 comment:
Frankly I would not trust the IAEA. I think they would just rubber stamp whatever Iran wants them to. There really are only 3 possible ways I know of to have a situation where we could verify any kind of Iranian compliance. 1.)Allow Americans on the sites who have the necessary expertise who will also have a degree of skepticism toward any Iranian claims. This is going to be problematic on at least a couple of levels. A.)Americans are not currently allowed on the sites as I understand it and the other powers would never allow the deal to be amended to change this. B.)Even if we could get around this problem, American government officials tend to be left leaning in their world views and will likely implicitly trust the Iranians without enough skepticism toward Iranian claims for these people to have any credibility. 2.) While America does not have a military option at this point to deal with the problem but Israel may. Such an option would be VERY difficult though. 3.)As long as Iran is protected by Russia and China, there's no possibility of getting any cooperation from them. We could/should work to better our relations with these powers in order to ensure they cooperate with us in ensuring Iran will not continue to try and harm us. If the Iranians knew that "death to America" positions would not be tolerated by Russia and China, especially Russia and that such positions and actions based upon these positions would result in an extremely harsh price for the Iranians to pay, I think we would begin to see a changing of Iran's position toward America.
At this point, option 1 seems impossible and option 2 seems like an extreme long shot. As such, option 3 looks to me like the most viable option for ensuring Iran does not acquire nuclear weapons and that Iran ceases trying to harm us.
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